Faye, Safi

LC control no.	n 85376677
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Faye, Safi *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Senegal
Associated place	France
Birth date	1943-11-22
Place of birth	Fad'jal (Senegal)
Affiliation	École pratique des hautes études (France) Université de Paris VII Louis Lumiére Film School (Paris, France)
Profession or occupation	Motion picture producers and directors
Found in	Souls in the sun [MP] 1982: credits (a film by Safi Faye) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Faye, Safi; ethnologist, documentary filmmaker; born 22 November 1943 in Fad'jal, Senegal ; obtained a diploma in ethnology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (1977); defended her PhD on religion and Serer culture at the University of Paris VII; graduated as a filmmaker at the Louis Lumiére Film School in Paris (1974); the first African woman to release a feature-length film: KadduBeykat (Words of Peasants, also known as Letter from My Village or Peasant Letter) (1975); won the Georges Sadoul Prize, the International Film Critics Award of the Festival of Berlin, the International Catholic Organization for Cinema and Audiovisual (OCIC) Award, the Festival International du Film de l'Ensemble Francophone (FIFEF) Award in Geneva, and the Special Award at the Fifth Pan-African Festival of Film and Television (FESPACO) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; her feature-length film Fad'jal (Come and Work), 1979 received an award at the 1980 Carthage Film Festival; honored in a special tribute at the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil (1998) and (2010))