Sketch

Film

by Mariama Diallo

Details

USA / 2017 / 14mins / Drama, Mystery / English

The aesthetics of racial profiling are examined in this film, which follows a police sketch artist who believes he has stumbled upon the suspect from one of his drawings.

About the Director

Mariama Diallo

Senegalese-American filmmaker Mariama Diallo, is the creator of the 12-minute absurdist-horror short Hair Wolf, which won a Jury Award at Sundance. In 2015 she co-wrote Everybody Dies!, which was directed by Nuotama Bodomo and formed part of the feature film Collective: Unconscious premiering at 2016’s SXSW Film Festival. In 2016 she wrote and directed the short film Sketch, which had its world premiere at the New York African Film Festival and won the FOX Inclusion Emerging Voices Award at the BlackStar Film Festival. Learn More