Djaka was born and raised in Paris, France to a French Mother and a West-African Father. She starts acting, singing & dancing at the age of eight.
At 17, under the direction of Claudia Stavinsky, Djaka is cast as the witty Anita in West Side Story and performs at the legendary Chatelet Theater. She spends a year at the Performing Arts Academy of Skyline High near San Francisco, where she perfects her English. Back in Paris, she pursues her training and joins Paris Musical Theater Academy. She performs on stage and starts working in TV. At the age of 23, Djaka writes her first play:"What do girls talk about?", a comedy about two roommates stuck in their house on Valentine's night. The play tours in France, Belgium and Hong Kong. Represented by CineArt then Artmedia, she gets cast in french independent films but returns to Hong Kong where she performs non-stop for about two years before she moves to NYC.
Graduate of the International Training Program at Broadway Dance Center, Djaka is selected to choreograph Beyonce's "Who run the world" for the 2015 NYC Dance Parade. She performs in "A world of economics", directed by Pascal Rambert at La Mama, is cast as Yelena in New Saloon "Three Translations of Uncle Vanya" at The Invisible Dog, and joins Classical Theater of Harlem for their "Romeo'N Juliet" production in 2014 and "Tempest" production alongside Ron Cephas-Jones in 2015.
Djaka becomes part of the Goldcrest & Saboteur Production family, overseeing projects from financing to casting with financiers, producers, writers and directors, working across both documentary and narrative films. Djaka is a producer on Sebastian Junger & Nick Quested National Geographic feature documentary: "Hell On Earth: the fall of Syria and the rise of Isis" that premieres at TriBeCa FF in 2017. She is honored with a duPont Award for her journalistic work. She is also a co-producer on the documentary " I Want my MTV" opening at TriBeCa FF in 2019.
Most recently, Djaka starred in HULU's Black Stories Present: "Imagine a Moon Colony" and in Solange Knowles's produced "Nairobi", both directed by TriBeCa Film Founder Awards winner Philip Youmans. She also starred in "Words", directed by Amhalise Morgan and featuring Nicholas Pinnock, star of ABC TV Drama "For Life."
Fierce human's rights advocate, advocate for equity and inclusion for women in the entertainment industry, fighting for representation of the African diaspora across all media, Djaka' s first short film as a writer-director was composed of 70% women crew & cast. "Jazz in Wakanda", a "thought-provoking and powerful story about race and identity" was selected in festivals like Urban World, Nitehawk Shorts, New Filmmakers Los Angeles, and New York African Film Festival. Her second short film as a director,"For Life", a comedy about two friends connected in life (and death) was shot with an all female-identifying crew and cast of thirty for the 2020 Women's Week end Film Challenge.
Djaka has several projects in development, all shedding the light on the experience of diverse and mixed identities, all celebrating underrepresented voices. Djaka is also developing her father's life story, Guinean immigrant who illegally fled the country in the 1970s.
Her pilot "Ainoah", centered around a secret society of multicultural women disrupting the establishment was a Hillman Grad Top 20 finalist for the Indeed Rising Voices program. Djaka has been cast as the lead in the horror/comedy "Cut Me If You Can" directed by award-winner filmmakers Nicolas Polixene and Sylvain Loubet-dit Gajol, shooting in the Fall of 2021. She is honored to be selected as one of 8 performers for the 2021-2022 Blackmagic Collective Emerging Actors Initiative.
At 17, under the direction of Claudia Stavinsky, Djaka is cast as the witty Anita in West Side Story and performs at the legendary Chatelet Theater. She spends a year at the Performing Arts Academy of Skyline High near San Francisco, where she perfects her English. Back in Paris, she pursues her training and joins Paris Musical Theater Academy. She performs on stage and starts working in TV. At the age of 23, Djaka writes her first play:"What do girls talk about?", a comedy about two roommates stuck in their house on Valentine's night. The play tours in France, Belgium and Hong Kong. Represented by CineArt then Artmedia, she gets cast in french independent films but returns to Hong Kong where she performs non-stop for about two years before she moves to NYC.
Graduate of the International Training Program at Broadway Dance Center, Djaka is selected to choreograph Beyonce's "Who run the world" for the 2015 NYC Dance Parade. She performs in "A world of economics", directed by Pascal Rambert at La Mama, is cast as Yelena in New Saloon "Three Translations of Uncle Vanya" at The Invisible Dog, and joins Classical Theater of Harlem for their "Romeo'N Juliet" production in 2014 and "Tempest" production alongside Ron Cephas-Jones in 2015.
Djaka becomes part of the Goldcrest & Saboteur Production family, overseeing projects from financing to casting with financiers, producers, writers and directors, working across both documentary and narrative films. Djaka is a producer on Sebastian Junger & Nick Quested National Geographic feature documentary: "Hell On Earth: the fall of Syria and the rise of Isis" that premieres at TriBeCa FF in 2017. She is honored with a duPont Award for her journalistic work. She is also a co-producer on the documentary " I Want my MTV" opening at TriBeCa FF in 2019.
Most recently, Djaka starred in HULU's Black Stories Present: "Imagine a Moon Colony" and in Solange Knowles's produced "Nairobi", both directed by TriBeCa Film Founder Awards winner Philip Youmans. She also starred in "Words", directed by Amhalise Morgan and featuring Nicholas Pinnock, star of ABC TV Drama "For Life."
Fierce human's rights advocate, advocate for equity and inclusion for women in the entertainment industry, fighting for representation of the African diaspora across all media, Djaka' s first short film as a writer-director was composed of 70% women crew & cast. "Jazz in Wakanda", a "thought-provoking and powerful story about race and identity" was selected in festivals like Urban World, Nitehawk Shorts, New Filmmakers Los Angeles, and New York African Film Festival. Her second short film as a director,"For Life", a comedy about two friends connected in life (and death) was shot with an all female-identifying crew and cast of thirty for the 2020 Women's Week end Film Challenge.
Djaka has several projects in development, all shedding the light on the experience of diverse and mixed identities, all celebrating underrepresented voices. Djaka is also developing her father's life story, Guinean immigrant who illegally fled the country in the 1970s.
Her pilot "Ainoah", centered around a secret society of multicultural women disrupting the establishment was a Hillman Grad Top 20 finalist for the Indeed Rising Voices program. Djaka has been cast as the lead in the horror/comedy "Cut Me If You Can" directed by award-winner filmmakers Nicolas Polixene and Sylvain Loubet-dit Gajol, shooting in the Fall of 2021. She is honored to be selected as one of 8 performers for the 2021-2022 Blackmagic Collective Emerging Actors Initiative.
