Mati Diop On Launching Senegalese Production House Fanta Sy With Fabacary Assymby Coly And Their Plans To Produce “Daring” African Projects

Mati Diop On Launching Senegalese Production House Fanta Sy With Fabacary Assymby Coly And Their Plans To Produce “Daring” African Projects

EXCLUSIVE: After clinching the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019 with her debut fiction feature Atlantics, French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop had one burning desire.  “My dream was to set up a film school in Dakar,” she tells Deadline.  Diop made history that year in Cannes as the first Black woman to compete in the festival’s…

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With Kendrick Lamar’s Brutal Diss Tracks Dominating the Charts, Taylor Swift Gets Dethroned From Apple Music’s Top 5

With Kendrick Lamar’s Brutal Diss Tracks Dominating the Charts, Taylor Swift Gets Dethroned From Apple Music’s Top 5

The record industry is on a flare of highlights, with each genre surpassing another within fleeting moments. Although when Taylor Swift dropped her album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, Spotify records to Apple Music, she became the sole runner for the throne. However, with the rap genre now flexing the ultimate beef of the year, courtesy…

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