Katy Léna N'diaye (born 1979) is a Senegalese journalist and documentary filmmaker, best known for her documentaries about women muralists in Africa.
Life Born in Thies, Senegal, N'diaye grew up in Dakar. She has worked as a journalist for TV5 Monde, hosting a TV magazine Reflets Sud.
In 2003 N'diaye directed her first documentary Traces on mural painting by Kassena women in Burkina Faso. In the documentary, three old women explain the content of the murals covering the reddish-clay huts to Anetina, a young unmarried woman. Awaiting for Men documented three older women talking as they painted the town wall in Oualata, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in southeast Mauritania.
Filmography Year Film Genre Role Duration(min) 2003 Traces, empreintes de femmes(Traces, Women's Imprints) Documentary Director, screenwriter 55 m. 2007 En attendant les hommes(Waiting for Men) Documentary Director, screenwriter 56 m. 2018 Aminby Philippe Faucon Fiction feature Actor 91 m. 2019 On a le temps pour nous(Time is on our side) Documentary Director, screenwriter, co-producer 67 m. 2022 L'argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA(Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc) Documentary Director, producer 101 m. 2022 Maayo Wonaa Keerol(Le fleuve n'est pas une frontière)by Alassane Diago Documentary Producer 105 m.
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