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‘Simply Black’ Filmmaker Jean-Pascal Zadi Aims To Break Down More Barriers: “Being Black And Living In France Has Marked Me Deeply”
Actor-director Jean-Pascal Zadi speaks to Deadline about previous Cannes awards and breaking down barriers in French entertainment.
Guinea-born Sangaré, who won Cannes ’ Un Certain Regard Best Actor prize in 2024 for his performance as an undocumented migrant in Souleymane’s Story and would befeted with Best Male Revelation that evening, had just escaped deportation from France after securing a work permit in January. He followed the documentary with ultra-low budget features Cramé, African Gangster and Sans pudeur ni morale, at the same time as breaking into television as a contributor on the Canal+ show Le before du grand journal. Zadi is now gearing up for the June release of Abidjan-shot feature Le grand déplacement, about a space mission with an all-African crew, and developing an adaptation of Boris Vian’s novel I Spit On Your Graves, about a Black man in the U.S., whose white complexion allows him to cross racial barriers, to be set in the French Antilles.
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