Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ To Represent Senegal In International Oscar Race
, the feature debut which won the Grand Prix in Cannes this year, has been submitted by Senegal to compete for the 2020 International Feature Film Oscar.
The film already made history when Diop became the first black female director to be selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in Cannes, and could do so again by becoming the first project from Senegal to get nominated by the Academy for its foreign language prize. Features submitted by African nations have been nominated in the category nine times before, with three wins:is a France-Senegal-Belgium co-production and was filmed in Wolof, a language primarily spoken in Senegal, as well as French and English. Producers are Les Films du Bal, Cinekap and Frakas.
Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the title following its Cannes debut. It also screened in Toronto, winning the inaugural Mary Pickford Award, which recognizes emerging female talent, for Diop. The film will have an awards-qualifying theatrical run from November 15 in the US and will debut on the platform on November 29.
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