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Djaka Souaré is an actress and filmmaker. Her credits include the HULU special "Black Stories Present: Your Attention Please", directed by TriBeCa 2019 award-winner Phillip Youmans. She is the face of head of rebellion soldier Halima in the video game "Call of Duty." Djaka's first short film, "Jazz in Wakanda", which she wrote, directed, produced and in which she starred, was an Official selection at Film festivals like Urban World & Nitehawk Shorts, and sold to COMCAST/TUBI as part of "Black Power Series". Her pilot script, "Ainoah", dystopian tale of a secret society of multicultural women, won the 2022 Kosinima grant. Djaka is part of Women in Film, FreeTheWork, Blackmagic Collective and was part of Joanna Johnson's Freeform "Good Trouble" shadowing program. Of West African & French descent, Djaka speaks English, French and Spanish fluently. |
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"JAZZ IN WAKANDA" Streaming on TUBI/COMCAST - "Black Power Series" Directed by and Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ An otherwise uneventful day for Julie takes a more serious turn when her daughter, Jazz, starts to ask profound questions about slavery, and what she's learned at school. Starring Zainab Jah, Sydney Morton, Jazz Hardrict |
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HULU "YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: IMAGINE A MOON COLONY" Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ Directed by TriBeca Award Winner Phillip Youmans 1970s. Los Angeles. Baldwin Hills. A son asks his parents to imagine 2020... |
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"A SMALLER BIG BANG"
Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ When divorce won't do for a miserable married couple, they each hire contract killers to take the other out, but their plans go horribly awry when the killers show up on the same night. Directed by Jeff Perreca 2022 LA Shorts International Film Festival 2022 LA Independent Filmmakers Showcase |
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"FOR LIFE"
Directed by DJAKA SOUARÉ When a new friend shows up, two best-friends-forever are forced to question how long 'forever' really lasts. 2020 Sherman Oaks Film Festival 2020 Vegas Movie Awards - Best Narrative Short 2020 International Independent Film Awards - Best Short 2020 Focus International Film Festival 2020 Detroit Shetown Film festival 2020 Hollywood Verge Film Awards |
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"WORDS"
Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ & NICHOLAS PINNOCK A New York Love story about two lovers whose language barriers ultimately creates a wall. Directed by Amhalise Morgan 2019 Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival 2020 New York Cinematography Award (NYCA) Finalist 2020 Bridges International Film Festival (Greece) 2021 Kalakari Film Festival (India) 2022 Rio de Janeiro World Film Festival |
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"NAIROBI" Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ Upon immigrating to New York, a West-African mother finds comfort in the dresses her daughter makes for her. Produced by SOLANGE KNOWLES Directed by TriBeca Award Winner Phillip Youmans 2020 Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival 2021 New Orleans Film Society |
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"AN AFTERNOON IN MONTE CARLO"
Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ Marlon Rivers, a young African-American finance wunderkind specialized in the 'Monte Carlo' system, meets Margot Marshall, a mystery LA woman who has just landed in New York that fateful day. Directed by Vaintino 2018 Lucky Strike Film Festival 2018 Rome Independent Prisma Awards 2018 Mediterranean Film Festival 2018 Motion Pictures International Film Festival 2018 CKF International Film Festival |
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"Z-BORN" Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ When a futuristic cop finds out she's been selected to escape this dying earth and leave for a new and thriving planet, she must decide if she wants to leave and save herself or stay and save her world. Directed by Shaan Couture 2018 Women Week end Film Challenge 2019 St Francis College Women's Film Festival |
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"THE TEMPEST" Starring DJAKA SOUARÉ Starring Ron Cephas-Jones Classical Theater of Harlem - Summerstage, NYC Directed by Carl Cofield @Marcus Garvey Park 
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"UNCLE VANYA" STARRING Djaka Souaré New Saloon - The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NYC Directed by Morgan Green Press: http://newyorktheatrereview.blogspot.com/2015/04/ryan-hudak-interviews-morgan-green-on.html |
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"ROMEO N JULIET"
STARRING Djaka Souaré Classical Theater of Harlem - Summerstage, NYC Directed by Justin Emeka @Marcus Garvey Park "Sword fights become break dancing battles, Juliet's balcony is a fire escape, the apothecary is a drug dealer on the corner, and the young men killing one another in their families' names are engaged in class wars (...) This adaptation works." THE NEW YORKER 'Lakai Worrell's choreography is first rate. Providing a supernatural feel, lit up 'ancestors' dance in doorways. Under his direction, the ensemble keeps the poetry forefront.'' HUFFINGTON POST |
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