Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Ramata-Toulaye Sy (born) is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter.
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
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- Name
- Ramata-Toulaye Sy
- Birthplace
- Senegal
- Occupation
- Film director Screenwriter
- Born
- 1986 · Bezons.
- Nationality
- France
- Known for
- Banel & Adama
- Languages
- French
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Ramata-Toulaye Sy (born) is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter.
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• Name — Ramata-Toulaye Sy • Birthplace — Senegal • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter
Early life and education
Early life and education
Ramata-Toulaye Sy was born in Bezons, Paris to Senegalese parents. She studied at La Fémis in Paris, graduating in 2015. She lived in Dakar, Senegal for several years after graduation.
Career
Career
Sy's 2021 short film Astel was the winner of the Share Her Journey award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, and the SACD Award and a Special Jury Prize at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Sy was a cowriter of the feature films Sibel and Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame-du-Nil), before making Astel as her first directorial project. Her feature debut, Banel & Adama, entered production in 2022, premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was also screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received praise from critics who described it as an expressive debut from a promising director.
Portrait réalisé durant l'interview de Ramata-Toulaye Sy à propos de son film en compétition "Banel et Adama" au festival de Cannes 2023
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- 1.Le palmarès du Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2022 dévoilé. 7 febbraio 2022.
- 2.Stefania Ulivi. La carica delle registe al festival: firmano sette film su 21 in gara. Corriere della sera. 17 maggio 2021.
- 3.Ramata-Toulaye Sy.
- 4.Festival de Cannes: qui est la Franco-Sénégalaise Ramata-Toulaye Sy, en lice pour la Palme d’or?. 13 aprile 2023.
- 5.Ramata-Toulaye Sy.
- 6.Ramata-Toulaye Sy : Portrait de la réalisatrice d’"Astel". 21 marzo 2022.
- 7.Matthew Boas, Valerio Caruso. Çağla Zencirci e Guillaume Giovanetti, registi di Sibel. 14 dicembre 2018.
- 8.Fabien Lemercier. Ramata-Toulaye Sy in concorso a Cannes con Banel et Adama. 14 aprile 2023.
- 9.Astel.
- 10.Thomas Page. Meet Ramata Toulaye Sy, the director competing for the Palme d'Or with her first film. 8 maggio 2023.
- 11.Scott Roxborough. Cannes: ‘Banel & Adama’ Director Ramata-Toulaye Sy on Creating “A Tragic Heroine on the Level of Medea, but With an African Background”. 17 maggio 2023.
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