Lights, Cameras, Action: 19 Talented Black Female Directors You Need To Know was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
1. “Down In The Delta”
Watch the trailer for the soulful coming of age story here.
2. “Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.”
Watch a clip from the Miramax film here.
3. “Eve’s Bayou”
See Jurnee Smollett as Eve here!
4. “Pariah”
Watch the trailer here, featuring its lead actress Adepero Oduye.
5. “Belle”
Watch the trailer for “Belle” here.
6. “Daughters Of The Dust”
Watch this powerful scene from the film here!
7. “Yelling To The Sky”
Watch the trailer here!
8. “Something New”
Here’s the trailer for the film here!
9. Euzhan Palcy
This video is a featurette on Palcy as she talks about her career in film!
10. “Cadillac Records”
Watch Beyonce as Etta James here!
11. “Middle Of Nowhere”
Watch the trailer here, which also starred David Oyelowo who plays MLK in DuVernay’s “Selma.”
12. “Beyond the Lights”
Watch Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker in a clip here!
13. “Night Catches Us”
Watch a clip here!
14. “Mississippi Damned”
Watch a scene here!
15. “The Watermelon Woman”
Watch a funny scene from the flick here!
16. Nzingha Stewart
Here’s the video for Eve’s “Satisfaction” that Stewart directed! #tbt
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.
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 […]
