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1. “Down In The Delta”
Watch the trailer for the soulful coming of age story here.
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
2. “Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.”
Watch a clip from the Miramax film here.
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
3. “Eve’s Bayou”
See Jurnee Smollett as Eve here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
4. “Pariah”
Watch the trailer here, featuring its lead actress Adepero Oduye.
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
5. “Belle”
Watch the trailer for “Belle” here.
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
6. “Daughters Of The Dust”
Watch this powerful scene from the film here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
7. “Yelling To The Sky”
Watch the trailer here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
8. “Something New”
Here’s the trailer for the film here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
9. Euzhan Palcy
This video is a featurette on Palcy as she talks about her career in film!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
10. “Cadillac Records”
Watch Beyonce as Etta James here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
11. “Middle Of Nowhere”
Watch the trailer here, which also starred David Oyelowo who plays MLK in DuVernay’s “Selma.”
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
12. “Beyond the Lights”
Watch Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker in a clip here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
13. “Night Catches Us”
Watch a clip here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
14. “Mississippi Damned”
Watch a scene here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
15. “The Watermelon Woman”
Watch a funny scene from the flick here!
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
16. Nzingha Stewart
Here’s the video for Eve’s “Satisfaction” that Stewart directed! #tbt
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
17. Kimberly Towns
Towns’ college thesis project “Zero” was nominated for HBO’s Short Film Competition and selected for the American Black Film Festival. A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, the new filmmaker is on a roll, as last year, she directed the short film “Hands To The Sky”, that featured an autistic protagonist.
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
18. Nev Nnaji
Nnaji’s docu “Reflections Unheard: Black Women In Civil Rights” was an honest discussion of the Black women who were unsung supporters and leaders of the Civil Rights and Feminist movements of the ’60s and ’70s. These women, for too long, were overlooked for male heroes or their White counterparts, and Nnaji’s film was a passion […]
Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
