Hair Wolf
Mariama Diallo
Imagine a world in which cultural appropriation was a virus: white people, appropriating black culture with a vampiric intent, infect Black culture at large with their white-washed version of it. That’s the premise of Hair Wolf. Set in a black hair salon, the staff is confronted with this strange new species. A gentrification horror comedy.
Awards for ›Hair Wolf‹ (Auswahl)
Jury Award U.S. Fiction Short Film – Sundance Film Festival 2018 | Best Narrative Short Film – Chicago International Film Festival 2018 | Best Cinematography – Brooklyn Horror Festival 2018 | Best Midnight Short Film | Florida Film Festival 2018
Mariama Diallo
Mariama Diallo is a Senegalese-American writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. After graduating from the film studies programme of Yale University, Mariama filmed the experimental documentary African Scramble (in postproduction). In 2015, Mariama co-wrote Everybody Dies! which formed part of the omnibus feature film Collective: Unconscious premiering at 2016’s SXSW Film Festival and now streaming on Netflix. Her short film Sketch (2016) had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s African Film Festival, and won the Fox Inclusion Emerging Artist Award at the BlackStar Film Festival.
