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https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/mati-diop overview of work

https://iffr.com/en/persons/mati-diop overview of work

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-20/mati-diop-atlantics-cannes-academy-award-entry-netflix article on work

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/23/780847003/atlantics-is-a-haunting-refugee-story-of-the-women-left-behind-in-senegal article on work

https://cinema-scope.com/columns/filmart-realm-senses-mati-diop-mille-soleils/ interview

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/atlantics-mati-diop-interview-1202186776/ article on background

https://variety.com/2020/film/features/10-directors-to-watch-mati-diop-makes-waves-with-oscar-shortlisted-atlantics-1203455856/

https://variety.com/2020/artisans/awards/atlantics-mati-diop-artisans-1203460863/

http://www.rawmaterialcompany.org/_3250?lang=en different festivals

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/mati-diop-cannes-2019-atlantics/index.html first black contender

Directing
Mati Diop made her Directorial debut in 2004. Her short film Atlantiques (2009) won the Rotterdam International Film Festival's Tiger Award for Short Film, and a Top Prize at Media City Film Festival during her first North American appearance in 2009.

Her documentary short A Thousand Suns was released in 2013. The film focused on actor Magaye Niang, who was the star of Diop's uncle's seminal feature Touki Bouki (1973) and explained how he had come to live as a farmer in the intervening years. The film played at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was later also programmed at the Museum of Modern Art.

In 2019, she became the first black female director to have her film premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival when her feature debut Atlantics (Atlantique) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or. The film was a fictional adaptation of her documentary short Atlantiques made in 2009 that followed two friends from Senegal as they made a life-threatening boat crossing to Europe. The film won the Grand Prix. It was picked up by Netflix shortly following Cannes' award announcements.