Sidy Fassara Diabaté

Sidy Fassara Diabaté (born 1950) is a Malian film director.

Biography Born in Bamako, Diabaté attended Bamako High School. He furthered his studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bamako and graduated in 1974. Diabaté was a history and geography teacher at Lycée Notre Dame du Niger and was assigned to oversee baccalaureate examinations. In 1979, he opted to pursue a cinematic career after taking part in a competition organized by the Ministry of Information. He was not initially interested in the cinema, but came to see it as an excellent means of cultural expression. Diabaté trained in filmmaking at the Centre National de Production Cinématographique. In 1986, he directed his first short film, Veillée à Bolongué.

Diabaté led the committee the drafted the law on the film industry from 1991 to 1998.

Diabaté served as deputy director general at the National Center of Cinematography of Mali (CNCM) until his retirement in 2013. He was honored with a retirement ceremony organized by the Minister of Culture, Bruno Maïga. Diabaté is married and has two sons and two daughters.

Filmography 1986 : Veillée à Bolongué (short film) 2003 : Le Mali en marche (documentary) 2007 : Le Mali, pays au féminin (short film) 2011 : Da Monzon, la conquête de Samanyana