Consultant: James Oscar
Script Consultant: Catherine Veaux- logeat
Archival Editing: Andrea Henriquez
Editing: Guillermo Lopez Perez
Sound Editing: La Hacienda Creative, Catherine Van Der Donckt
Cinematography: Alex Margineanu
Camera Assistant (Intern): Indira Vasseaux
Sound Recording: René Portillo Ruiz
Production managers: Hind Benchekroun (Québec), Sandrine G. Tresor (Guadeloupe)
Coordinators: Kem Charles, Rotso Rakotobe (France), Noufissa Nasrollah, Nadezda Koromyslova(Québec)
Postproduction: Outpost MTL
Original Music: Malika Tirolien, Brian D'Oliveira
Photography: Daniel Goudrouffe
Graphic Design: Ismael Mossadeq, Manish Ramloll
Executive producer: Daniela Mujica
Production: Yzanakio Sculpteur d’imaginaire
Cinémartinique Festival 2024
Ma traversée will be in official competition in Martinique, as part of the Cinémartinique - Lespri Sinéma Festival to be held from October 10 to 19, 2024! The screening will take place on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 3pm at Tropiques Atrium - salle Frantz Fanon. Visit their page for more details!
Cannes International Pan-African Film Festival 2024
After Guadeloupe, Ma traversée will make a stop in Europe during the Cannes International Pan-African Film Festival. The documentary, an official selection of the 21st edition, will be screened on October 26, 2024 at 8:30pm at Espace Miramar at Hôtel Martinez. Stay tuned!
Festival Monde En Vues 2024
Ma traversée returns to Guadeloupe and will be screened during the 11th edition of the Festival Monde En Vues. Join us on October 13, 2024, at 6pm at the Résidence Départementale of Bas du Fort, Gosier.
Nouveaux Regards Film Festival 2024
Ma traversée will be part of the program at the 7th Nouveaux Regards Film Festival in Guadeloupe. Join us on Saturday March 23 at 1:30pm at the Mémorial ACTe (Guadeloupe) to discover the culmination of this exploration of identity.
A personal quest filmed over 20 years, the film illustrates the racial issues linked to the notion of white privilege that have punctuated the director's life in three French-speaking societies: Guadeloupe, France and Quebec. From her own story emerges a broader narrative of colonization, assimilation, integration and social advantages linked to ethno-racial origin, and their repercussions even today.
Year of production: 2023
Ma traversée is my first feature-length documentary. As a filmmaker, I've always been interested in the contribution to the world of identities born of the intermingling of cultures. The writer Edouard Glissant spoke of the “art of the whole world” and of archipelagic thinking. My short films deal with subjects that are vibrantly mixed.
Since studying cinema in France and completing my dissertation in Quebec City in 2000, I've never stopped filming and exploring with my camcorder to capture the essence of relationships between people from different backgrounds and their different perceptions and interpretations of the same subject. This time, I want to make a more personal film that exposes my unedited Guadeloupean point of view on issues of privilege and race in three geographical spaces.
I'd like to show that, although I'm the same person, I'm a different person in each place, simply because my skin color doesn't have the same meaning or scope, interpretation or privilege from one country to another.
Countries I chose, one to grow up in (Guadeloupe), the other to study in (France) and the third to work and start a family in (Quebec). My identity is hybrid, thanks to my parents' already mixed origins, a synthesis of cultures from four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe and America. This crossbreeding did not come without suffering. The impact of colonial thinking can be seen in the omnipresence of racism, which has managed to become an integral and official part of nation-building in countries such as Guadeloupe, France and Quebec.
In these environments, skin color is essential in the first evaluation of a person. Society functions on an ethnic basis, and so the racialization of thought has shaped our outlook, our culture and our language. Race and racism are not what we see, but what lies behind what we see: representations, the imaginary. With the pandemic of racism affecting the whole world, movements such as Idle no more Black Lives Matters or the Traoré Affair, or more recently the Producer or Claude Jean-Pierre affair, are raising awareness among the masses and prompting us to reflect on this scourge that affects the whole of humanity.
My documentary project Ma traversée is therefore a way of putting my hand to the stirrup by questioning our race-related privileges, our representations and our imaginations. Imaginaries that have definitively shaped my view of the world. With this film, I'm reclaiming my imagination and becoming its citizen. In other words, I'm becoming a citizen of my imaginary world, while deconstructing my formatted view. I invite the public to do the same.
– Diana Goudrouffe
Award-winning filmmaker, educator and activist Diana Goudrouffe places humanity and naturalism at the heart of the stories she tells. She transcends values, cultures and limiting beliefs through her inclusive filmmaking mission and NLP-based conscious professional practices. Her transcendental and internationalist approach, in keeping with her multiple Afro-Caribbean, Malagasy, Indian, French and Canadian origins, places the human being at the center of her creation. In her films, she measures the impact of slavery and colonization on the psychology of populations. Diana Goudrouffe is a member of SARTEC, Makila.tv and Black on Black films. Her documentary Ma traversée is her first feature film. She currently divides her time between Montreal and Guadeloupe.
Eric Idriss-Kanago and Daniela Mujica from YZANAKIO production
You can write to me at dianagoudrouffe@gmail.
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