Pamela Diop

'Pamela Diop' (qv) was born in 1981 to a French mother who worked in advertising and a Senegalese father who was a journalist and documentary filmmaker. Pamela discovered the city of Dakar at the age of nineteen and fell in love with it. She moved to the Senegalese capital in 2002 and created her first import-export business by age 21, marking her first steps as an entrepreneur. In 2009, she worked in PR for Canal Plus and started her first production company in Paris in 2012. She gained a foothold in the business "by learning on the job" but returned to school in 2014 earning her Master's degree from INSEEC Paris in production management for Film and Television.After working for a prime-time television program in Gabon, she returned to Dakar and began managing key accounts for McCann, an American ad agency.In 2017, Pamela started LACME, a communications agency which primarily worked with NGOs and intergovernmental agencies. LACME STUDIOS was created in 2019 in partnership with Jean-Luc Herbulot, to develop content for cinema and television. In 2020, she produced her first feature film SALOUM, which is premiering at TIFF in 2021.Pamela is the mother of three children and the president of A.W.A (African Woman Action), an association for the financial autonomy of women in Senegal, which works toward empowering and training women in the film industry.US partner/producer and executive producer of Saloum, Hus Miller came on board to collaborate on LACME's most recent feature film ZER0; an American-Senegalese action/thriller shot in the heart of Dakar city. The film is in post-production.::Pamela DIOP