
Maïmouna Doucouré is following up 2020’s “Cuties,” her Paris-set portrait of a pre-teen Senegalese immigrant who joins a dance clique, with the story of a trailblazing dancer, singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Variety reports that the French filmmaker will write and direct a Josephine Baker biopic being developed by StudioCanal. An American-born French performer…