EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Alice Diop (Saint Omer) has signed with CAA for representation.Best known for her work in the documentary space, Diop makes her narrative debut with Saint Omer, which will premiere in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, subsequently going on to make its North American premiere in Toronto.
The film, which Diop directed from her script written with Marie N’Diaye, follows Rama (Kayije Kagame), a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court.
The author intends to use Coly’s story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don’t go as expected.
Wild Bunch International is handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance representing the film’s North American rights.Diop has often used her work as a means of exploring the relationship between society and cinema in contemporary France.
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