[3] After completing her post-secondary education, Thiaw met with Algerian filmmaker Mohamed Boumari (assistant on the film La Bataille d’Alger) in 2002 with whom she participated in a production workshop.

Thereafter, Thiaw collaborated with Zaléa TV where she made a series of film portraits on the inhabitants of the French commune, Aubervilliers and their poor housing conditions.

The film follows the “revival of traditional wrestling[4]” in the suburbs of Dakar, where Thiaw grew up and “considers the sport’s influence in terms of the recent social and political transformations in Senegal”[4] revolving around the Senegalese Independence.

This second work maintained the political and social Senegalese discourse as her previous film, however revolving primarily around the rise of the apolitical group “Y’en a Marre” (We’re Fed Up”), led by rappers Thiat and Kilifeu.

[5] The Revolution Won't be Televised was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016,[6] winning the Fipresci Prize and a special mention in the Caligari Filmpreis.