Safi Faye, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Safi Faye

Ethnologist and film director

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1943

Place of Birth: Dakar, Senegal

Profession: film director, anthropologist, film actor

Nationality: Senegal

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Safi Faye (born November 22, 1943) is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist.
She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975.
She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal.