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Born in Thies, Senegal, N'diaye grew up in Dakar. She has worked as a journalist for TV5 Monde, hosting a TV magazine Reflets Sud.[1][6][7]
In 2003 N'diaye directed her first documentary Traces on mural painting by Kassena women in Burkina Faso.[2][8] In the documentary, three old women explain the content of the murals covering the reddish-clay huts to Anetina, a young unmarried woman.[4]Awaiting for Men documented three older women talking as they painted the town wall in Oualata, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in southeast Mauritania.[9]
Filmography
Year
Film
Genre
Role
Duration (min)
2003
Traces, empreintes de femmes (Traces, Women's Imprints)[10]
^"Katy Lèna N'diaye". African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF, New York). Retrieved 28 September 2023.
^Mansouri, Hassouna (11 April 2014). "Katy Lena Ndiaye's walls of women, women's words: Interview by Hassouna Mansouri and analysis by Mohamadou Mahmoun Faye". Translated by Ellerson, Beti. Retrieved 28 September 2023. Katy Lena Ndiaye came to cinema gradually. She finds in her vocation a strong desire to talk about Africa. While working for television, she quietly continues her cinematic dream. Because the way that Africa is shown on television, she uses her camera as a weapon to work to correct this image.
^Mitchell, Elvis (7 April 2004). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; From Village Huts to the Cosmos: Filmmakers on Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 September 2023. The essaylike Traces explores the Burkina Faso art of mural painting and sculpture that adorn the beautiful reddish-clay huts, built and designed by women. Ms. Ndiaye begins her story with the cleareyed young Anetina. Her grandmothers detail the entangled family history and the equally complicated evolution of the exterior and interior art of the huts.
^Faye, Modou Mamoune (9 October 2007). "Dans l'intimité des femmes de Oualata… En attendant les hommes, de Katy Léna NDIAYE (Sénégal)". africine.org (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2023. Katy Léna Ndiaye est plus connue comme présentatrice du magazine "Reflet Sud" sur la chaîne francophone TV5 Monde et sur la télévision publique belge RTBF. Cette journaliste sénégalaise, qui vit et travaille à Bruxelles, est aussi une réalisatrice de talent.
