FrameThrower · Actors · Mati Diop
Mati Diop
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2008–2008
Born 22 June 1982 · Paris, France
Mati Diop is a French-Senegalese actress and film director. She directed the 2019 film Atlantics, for which she became the first black female director to be in contention for the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or. At Cannes, Atlantics won the Grand Prix.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2008–2008
- Knight of the National Order of the Lion2019
- Lumière Award for Best Documentary2025
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mati takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Mati takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Mati Diop's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.