Zadi has worked in movies for over 20 years and is trained in both screenwriting and the technical aspects of film and audio-visual production in his own country of Cote d’Ivoire, as well as in Burkina-Faso, Tunisia, France, Canada, and Japan. He has written screenplays for several internationally-funded feature-length dramatic films that were screened throughout the West Africa region to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.
Since moving to the US in 2005, Zadi has produced several documentaries, including Eliza My Songbird (A Documentary About Autism,); Praying Town, a feature-length documentary on the history of Native Americans and enslaved African Americans of Southern New England; and Black N Black, his latest documentary, which examines the relationships between African Americans and African Immigrants to the US. Black N Black is currently screening at festivals and universities in the United States and made its international debut in Paris, France, in September 2019.
Zadi is presently working on his next documentary, Our Names. It is an exploration of the creation of Black-sounding names by African Americans, the use of non-African first names by many continental Africans, and the impact of these Black-sounding names on African Americans who bear them.
