# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/safi-faye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:05:01.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/safi-faye"
name: "Safi Faye"
slug: "safi-faye"
description: "Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal."
tagline: "Senegalese ethnologist and film director (1943–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Safi_Faye%2C_2004_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-11-22"
deathDate: "2023-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.55057733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269682/"
    handle:    "nm0269682"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump