Artist Profile: Diallo Javonne French

Diallo Javonne French

1403 Quail Creek Drive
Independence, MO 64055

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Born in Kansas City, Diallo Javonne French started as a musician. He began his filmmaking career when he bought an 8mm camera from a pawn shop. Diallo moved to Atlanta Georgia in the mid 1990’s and attended Clark Atlanta University majoring in Mass Communications, Radio/T.V./Film. While attending school he worked as a production assistant on several music videos that included such artists as TLC, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Xscape, Raven Symone, and with director Hype Williams. He is an award winning filmmaker and jazz photographer with a BET (Black Entertainment Television) film to his credit entitled May This Be Love. His music documentary Kansas City Dreamin’ screened in the 2023 Pan African Film Festival and was nominated for best documentary. His photographs have been used on Hallmark Cards, jazz magazines, exhibited in the American Jazz Museum, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.