Nikyatu Jusu's Nanny at Sundance Film Festival 2022

Nikyatu Jusu's Nanny at Sundance Film Festival 2022

2022 - 97min - Horror/Thriller

Sierra Leoneon-American filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu's Nanny, screens in the official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Synopsis
Aisha, an immigrant Nanny, piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.

Mariama Diallo's "Master" at Sundance Film Festival 2022

Mariama Diallo's Master at Sundance Film Festival 2022

2022 - 91mins - Horror, Fiction

 

Senegalese-American director Mariama Diallo's film Master, screens in the official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Synopsis
Three women strive to find their place at an elite New England university. As the insidious specter of racism haunts the campus in an increasingly supernatural fashion, each fights to survive in this space of privilege.

Her filmography includes: Hair Wolf (2018), Random Acts of Flyness (2018)
Sketch (2016)

Suicide by Sunlight (2019) a horror film by Nikyatu Jusu on Vimeo

Suicide by Sunlight a horror film by Nikyatu Jusu on Vimeo

Suicide by Sunlight (2019, the 17-minute film is about Valentina, a day-walking black vampire, forced to restrained her blood-lust in order to regain custody of her estranged daughters. She must repress who she is in order to become a normal member of society.

Inspired by the late science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler, Sierra Leonean American filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu is influenced by Sierra Leonean and West African mythology. Her interest in telling the story of a black vampire came from her desire "to explore what it would be like to turned that disenfranchisement upside down and essentially remix the vampire mythology." (Source: Youtube interview Sundance Institute Shorts Competition - U.S. Narrative Shorts Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6GVo6dl5vQ

SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT from NIKYATU on Vimeo.

Maïmouna Doucouré: « Mignonnes » selected at | sélectionné à Sundance 2020

Maïmouna Doucouré: « Mignonnes »

selected at | sélectionné à

Sundance 2020

SYNOPSIS

English

Eleven-year-old pre-teen Amy discovers in her new elementary school a group of dancers called: “Les Mignonnes”. Fascinated, she begins a sexy dance, the twerk, hoping to join their band and escape a family upheaval.

Français

Amy, 11 ans, rencontre un groupe de danseuses appelé : « Les Mignonnes ». Fascinée, elle s’initie à une danse sensuelle, dans l’espoir d’intégrer leur bande et de fuir un bouleversement familial.

BIO

English

Maïmouna Doucouré won the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 for the screenplay of her first feature Mignonnes, and Maman(s) – claimed the Grand Jury Prize in 2015. 

Français

Maïmouna Doucouré revient à Sundance après un Prix du Jury en 2016 pour son court métrage Maman(s), puis le Global Filmmaking Award, en 2017, pour le scénario de Mignonnes, son premier long métrage.