Anne-Sophie Nanki
- Writer
- Director
- Actress
Anne-Sophie Nanki is an Afro-Caribbean director and screenwriter, and was born in Guadeloupe, a small island in the French West Indies. Her education is in theater and cinema, she has a master's degree from "La Sorbonne Nouvelle University," which is an arts focused branch added five decades ago of the prestigious "la Sorbonne." Since she uses her education as a screenwriter and recently debuted as a director. She has created and participated in narratives that emphasizes on story telling that show layers in realities and truths within her community and beyond.
Her screenwriting skills came in play with co-writing short films, series (Exterminate all the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, HBO 2021) and feature films (Sextape, directed by Antoine Desrosières, official selection Un Certain Regard, Cannes International Film Festival 2018).
In January 2022, she debuted as director and created her first short, "Here ends the World we've Known", a historical drama shot in Guadeloupe. She explores the theme of Afro- Native solidarity against European invasions of "New World" in the 16th century. The movie world premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in august 2022, where she won the Grand Prize for Best Director. It is selected in official competition at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in September 2022, at the Cannes International Panafrican Film Festival 2022. Hopefully, many more to come.
With "Here the New World Begins", a feature film stemming from the same world as my first short, and she wishes to further my aesthetic experimentation. This first feature project has been selected by the Berlinale's EFM Fiction Toolbox Program 2023.
She has always been interested in telling the stories of the lives, the sorrows and the joys of people whose experiences often get overlooked: racial, ethnic, religious minorities on the margins of society and of history. These perspectives are also lacking in our industry (especially in Europe), as well as voices like hers: a Black woman writer and filmmaker, born and raised in an ancient French colony.