Rokhaya Diallo: La Parisienne démystifiée (France.tv)

Rokhaya Diallo: 

La Parisienne démystifiée (France.tv)

2021 | 52min | France

https://www.france.tv/documentaires/societe/2804821-la-france-en-vrai-la-parisienne-demystifiee.html

Lorsqu'on parle de "la Parisienne", autour du globe, une même image vient à l'esprit : une femme blanche, grande, mince et élégante qui se déplace à vélo une cigarette à la bouche. Pourtant, Paris d'aujourd'hui est l'une des villes les plus métissées au monde, et les femmes qui l'habitent sont très différentes du stéréotype. A travers cet anti-manuel de la bonne Parisienne, Rokhaya Diallo déconstruit le cliché en montrant les Parisiennes d'aujourd'hui dans toute leur diversité. Elle est allée à la rencontre de femmes qui se sentent parfaitement parisiennes, mais absolument pas en phase avec sa représentation. Elles sont très différentes de ce stéréotype comme en témoignent Alice Coffin, journaliste, militante et élue,
Nathalie Garçon, styliste, Grace Ly, écrivaine, Sarah Ourahmoune, championne de boxe, Elisa Rojas, avocate, Sonia Rolland, comédienne, mannequin et réalisatrice...

Around the world the idea of “the Parisian woman” conjures images of white, tall, thin, elegant, urban cyclist, with cigarette between her lips. Yet Paris is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world and the women who live there are very different from this stereotype. Through this alternative-manual of sorts, Rokhaya Diallo deconstructs the cliché by showing Parisian women of today in all their diversity. She encounters women who feel perfectly Parisian, beyond these oversimplified representations. They are very different from these stereotypes as witnessed by Alice Coffin, journalist, activist and elected official, Nathalie Garçon, stylist, Grace Ly, writer, Sarah Ourahmoune, boxing champion, Elisa Rojas, lawyer, Sonia Rolland, actress, model, filmmaker… 

Rokhaya Diallo : Où sont les Noirs ? (Where are the Blacks?)

Rokhaya Diallo : Où sont les Noirs ? (Where are the Blacks?)

Excerpt of interview with Rokhaya Diallo by TV5Monde (translated from French). 

This documentary was born from an original idea of producer Richard Koné and journalist/radio producer Ali Rebeihi.

Since the beginnings of French cinema, blacks have been used in the media for the perpetuation of prejudices that targeted them and of which they are the victims. [For instance] the clown "Chocolat" during the period of the Lumière brothers, who was already presented as a figure to be ridiculed. And these representations continued from decade to decade.

The representation of Josephine Baker, as hyper-sexualized woman, or of blacks on the cinema or television screens, as well as in advertising, as grotesque and ridiculous.

We interviewed intellectuals, film and television actors and actresses of cinema, those who make the images, those who critique and study them, such as Marie-France Malonga and Régis Dubois.

The idea was to make an inventory and to propose solutions.

Où sont les Noirs ? (2020), a documentary by Rokhaya Diallo, produced by Redstone & Les Bons Clients. With the participation of:

Aïssa Maïga

Deborah Lukumuena

Sonia Rolland

Bibiane Godfroid

France Zobda

Memona Hintermann-Affejee

Marie-France Malonga

Lucien Jean-Baptiste

Noom Diawara

Pat La Réal

Gary Dourdan

Sekouba Doucoure

Laurent Grégoire

Régis Dubois

Où sont les Noirs - un documentaire de Rokhaya Diallo

SEE ALSO:

Etre noir.e en France, une difference qui compte? - avec Rokhaya Diallo

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Être actrice noire en France: (dé)jouer les imaginaires par/by Lucie André [To Be a Black Actress in France: (un)playing imaginaries]

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/02/etre-actrice-noire-en-france-dejouer.html

Les noirs dans le cinéma français (Blacks in French cinema) - Régis Dubois

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/05/les-noirs-dans-le-cinema-francais.html

Zélie Asava: mixed-race identities and representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/02/zelie-asava-mixed-raced-identities-and.html

Claire Diao : Double Vague, le nouveau soufflé du cinéma français (Double wave, the new energy of French cinema) 2017

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/05/claire-diao-double-vague-le-nouveau.html

African Diasporas. Rokhaya Diallo: «De Paris à Ferguson : coupables d'être noirs» | "From Paris to Ferguson: guilty of being black"

Rokhaya Diallo: «De Paris à Ferguson : coupables d'être noirs» | "From Paris to Ferguson: guilty of being black"

Source: Libération.fr – À lire en français. Translation from French by Beti Ellerson

At the moment of the broadcast of the documentary by the anti-racism activist Rokhaya Diallo, «De Paris à Ferguson : coupables d'être noirs» | "From Paris to Ferguson: guilty of being black", the 23rd March on France Ô, the journal Libération takes the opportunity to recount the story of twelve Black or Arab men who died during or after being arrested by the French police, under the title: “Police violence: from Paris to Ferguson, who is the French Michael Brown?” http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/03/23/violences-policieres-de-paris-a-ferguson-qui-sont-les-michael-brown-francais_1441425

Translation of text below:

Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner... The names of these African Americans, victims of police violence, have been widely reported in recent months in the French media, and the widely covered racial tensions from Ferguson to Baltimore that their deaths revived. Last summer, in a series of portraits of the victims, the [journal] Libération revisited these missteps of the U.S. police. And in France? According to a documentary by Rokhaya Diallo, broadcast Wednesday at 20:50 on France Ô, the deaths during or following an arrest are often treated as a miscellaneous, non-event in the news, and the racial dimension widely silenced. "In the mirror that we hold on Ferguson [the town in Missouri where Michael Brown was killed], France should recognise its unsettling silhouette", a comment, which the journalist and essayist wrote in a column (co-signed with the anti-racism activist Sihame Assbague) published in Libération in 2014.

It is not only in Ferguson...

However, the racial dimension is at the heart of police violence in France, confirms a report on the subject published in recent days by ACAT (Action des chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture | Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture). Though no official statistics identifies those killed or injured during police or gendarmerie operations in the country, the Christian association, which focused on 89 cases of alleged abuse between 2005 and 2015, has counted 26 deaths. "At least 22 [of them] were of people from visible minorities," it said in the report. In other words, more than 80%. The association also denounced the fact that this racism-tinged violence is often ignored and unpunished. In reports published in 2005 and 2009, Amnesty International also signaled this impunity and even evoked "racist motives". These practices have never been brought before the courts, and convictions for acts of police violence called for by the families and relatives of victims are extremely rare.

Libération revisits the circumstances of the death of twelve of these men, Black or Arab, who have died in recent years during or after a violent arrest, after being fired upon with a Taser or flash-ball, in a police vehicle or a police station, or shot by police. (The text describing the 12 incidents is in French).

FRANCE Ô-"De Paris à Ferguson: coupables d’être... by franceo

Les réseaux de la haine, réalisé par Rokhaya Diallo et Mélanie Gallard | Networks of hatred, directed by Rokhaya Diallo and Melanie Gallard

Les réseaux de la haine, réalisé par Rokhaya Diallo et Mélanie Gallard | Networks of hatred, directed by Rokhaya Diallo and Melanie Gallard

Source: lcp.fr

[En français ci-après]

Journalist Rokhaya Diallo, very active on social media, was publicly targeted with a rape threat launched on Twitter.

Shaken by this violence, she decided to lodge a complaint and to meet with those who are daily confronted with Internet-based hatred. Whether publicly or anonymously, there are many who are harassed by hundreds of these messages. The documentary attempts to probe the impetus behind this violence that is occasionally expressed on social media. 

This investigation leads Rokhaya Diallo, in association with organizations against discrimination, the police, as well as advocates for the freedom of expression, to respond to the question: Is the Internet a vector of hatred?

Chat en direct avec @RokhayaDiallo dimanche 20h30. Posez-lui vos questions sur son film Les #Reseauxdelahaine ! http://bit.ly/1pagCTK 

Très présente sur les réseaux sociaux, la journaliste Rokhaya Diallo a été ciblée publiquement par un appel au viol lancé sur Twitter.

Frappée par cette violence, elle décide de porter plainte et de partir à la rencontre de celles et ceux qui sont quotidiennement confrontés à la haine sur Internet. Qu’il s’agisse de personnalités publiques ou d’anonymes harcelés par des centaines de messages, le documentaire tente de comprendre les leviers de la violence qui s’exprime parfois sur les réseaux sociaux.

Cette enquête mène Rokhaya Diallo auprès d’associations de lutte contre les discriminations, de la Police mais aussi de défenseurs de la liberté d’expression pour répondre à une interrogation : Internet est-il un vecteur de haine ?

Diffusion samedi 14 juin à 15h20 sur Paris Ile de France. Film réalisé par Rokhaya Diallo et Mélanie Gallard. Recevoir France 3 Paris Ile-de-France partout en France :Orange, SFR, Free 319 ; Bouygues 488 ; Bbox Bouygues 188 ; Darty 300 ; Canal Sat 368 ; Fransat 317 ; TNTSat 319 ; Numéricable 928.

Les réseaux de la haine - Documentaire complet - HD - Janvier 2023

Rokhaya Diallo: Les Marches de la Liberté | Steps to Freedom

Rokhaya Diallo: Les Marches de la Liberté | Steps to Freedom

Source in English: French American Foundation 

Source en français: La France à New York 

[English]

The French documentary directed by Rokhaya Diallo in 2013 questions the identity of France through the eyes of young American leaders. Their meetings throughout the travel highlight the situation of French youth and its specific issues, like recognition and identity. 

Ten Americans travel to France for a week, so that they get an opinion of the country of Human Rights, from the Palais de l’Elysée to the “suburbs”. Two hundred years after Tocqueville, the American group will follow the path of the theorist, in reverse. How do they perceive the disagreements that liven up France? Their meeting with young French, visits of institutions and various discussions in both sides of the Atlantic, will show the situation of France through the eyes of young American leaders. Influenced by non-violent action of Martin Luther King, the “March for Equality and against racism”, called March of the “Beurs" by the Medias, took place in Paris thirty years ago. What do they know about it? What is its legacy today? The famous American dream seems impossible in France. What about French dream  ? The film will reveal the opinion of the young generations of French and American about those historical victories.

[Français]

Un documentaire français réalisé par Rokhaya Diallo en 2013. Cinquante ans après la marche des droits civiques, aux Etats-Unis, et trente ans après la «Marche pour l'Egalité et contre le racisme» en France, des Américains se rendent dans l'Hexagone pour un état des lieux du pays des droits de l'homme.

Un documentaire qui questionne l'identité de la France à travers le regard de jeunes leaders américains. Leurs rencontres avec de jeunes Français, les visites des institutions ainsi que les entretiens menés des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, nous feront observer la situation de la jeunesse en France : ses problématiques spécifiques, comme la reconnaissance et l'identité.

Influencée par l'action non-violente de Martin Luther King, la Marche dite « des Beurs » s'est déroulée à Paris il y a trente ans. Qu'en savent-ils ? Quel est son héritage aujourd'hui ?

La caméra se glissera un temps dans la peau de ces Américains, à la découverte du « Vieux Continent ». L'histoire de Thione Niang donne corps au mythe de l'American Dream, mais qu'en est-il du rêve français ?

Rokhaya Diallo présente Les Marches de la Liberté