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- Men weren’t the only ones sharing their perspectives on contemporary Black life in film in the early 20th Century – Black women also created work to have their voices heard. Souders is notably known as the first Black woman to direct a feature film, A Woman’s Error.
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Ava DuVernay, became the first black woman to win the US Dramatic Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. [15] She received an Oscar nomination for her documentary 13th (2016), and has also made history as the first black woman director to be nominated for a Golden Globe. [16]
Feb 28, 2023 · With the debut of her second feature film, Candyman, Nia DaCosta became the first Black woman to have a No. 1 movie at the box office. Written with executive producer Jordan Peele and...
- Shonda Rhimes. Director, Producer, Writer. Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder, Station 19, Bridgerton. Shonda Rhimes is redefining the meaning of “yes.”
- Ava DuVernay. Director, Filmmaker, Producer, Writer. Selma, A Wrinkle In Time, Queen Sugar, 13th, When They See Us. Ava DuVernay is the first Black woman to direct a film with a budget over $100 million, and the first Black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
- Lena Waithe. Producer, Writer. The Chi, Queen & Slim, The Forty-Year-Old Version, Twenties. No pretense with no BS is the tone of Lena Waithe’s work. In 2017, she was the first Black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, taking home the trophy for the Netflix series Master of None, in which she also starred.
- Issa Rae. Producer, Writer. Insecure, Little, The Photograph, A Black Lady Sketch Show. 10+ years after the debut of her web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae has become a hit writer and producer—and the first Black woman to create and star in a premium cable series.
Feb 1, 2023 · While Black female representation in cinema is in the middle of a resurgence, depictions of Black queer women are still sorely lacking. With the debut of her 1996 film The Watermelon Woman,...
Aug 7, 2020 · With her film LionHeart, a beautiful story about a woman who works to save her father’s company, Genevieve Nnaji became the first Nigerian director to make a Netflix acquired film. Nnaji is multi-talented, also applauded for her contributions to Nigerian film as an actor and producer.
Mar 8, 2024 · Ava DuVernay. Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a director known for 'Selma,' '13th' and 'A Wrinkle in Time.' She is the first African American female director to receive a Golden Globe nomination and...
Sep 23, 2020 · She recently became the first Black woman to direct a superhero movie with “The Old Guard,” revitalizing the genre with kinetic action and two powerful women in its leading roles: Charlize ...
