Samedi Cinema

Directed By Mamadou Dia

Type of Project:  Drama
Length:  11:00 minutes
Producer(s):  Abbesi Akhamie, Cheikh Serge Ndao
Editor: Mamadou Dia, Juhui Kwon
Cinematographer:  Sheldon Chau

In a small city of Northern Senegal, two young cinephiles hatch a plan before their theater closes down forever.

Mamadou Dia – Graduate
md3330@nyu.edu

Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese director currently based in New York where he is completing his MFA at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. His stories are rooted in daily intimate realities inspired from his life growing up in Senegal and travelling across the continent. His shorts have been selected to international festivals such as the African Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and Venice Film Festival inter alia.