“Nanny” is a psychological horror that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where it won the grand jury prize, making it the first horror film to win and director Nikyatu Jusu the second Black female director to win the festival’s top award.
“I went on and did the show and did my life, and she wrote ‘Nanny.’ And then I got the audition for it, and then we finally met over Zoom, and thankfully it worked,” Diop says.
“I was stunned at how many parallels there were to my mother’s own story,” says Diop of the film’s resonance. “We immigrated from Senegal when I was five years old, and my mother did that so she could give me a shot at a life, because there’s not much [employment] opportunity in Senegal,” she continues. “And Aisha does the exact same thing for her son. I’ve always wanted to be able to portray my mother in some way and to honor her in what she’s done.
A surge in COVID-19 cases at the start of 2022 meant that the Sundance Film Festival pivoted online shortly before its scheduled in-person start. “You do these projects and you do them because you love them and you believe in them, but then to get into a festival like Sundance is so exciting. So we got in, and then a week before we were meant to fly there they switched it to virtual,” she says.
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