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Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford (/ dʒ ə ˈ n ɪ k s ə / [1]) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Her films include Gregory Go Boom , a winner of the short-film jury award at the Sundance Film Festival ; Lemon , co-written with Brett Gelman ; and Zola , co-written with playwright Jeremy O. Harris .
Janicza Bravo has spent half her life in Panama and half in Brooklyn. She studied directing and design for theatre at New York University's Playwrights Horizons Theater School. She has mounted plays in New York, Los Angeles, and Madrid. Her first short, Eat, premiered at SXSW. Her last short, Gregory Go Boom, played at the Sundance Film Festival.
Jun 30, 2021 · Janicza Bravo is sitting in her home in Los Angeles, recounting a recent, lightly surreal Uber ride. When she hopped in the car, the driver turned and asked if she had been vaccinated.
Jun 30, 2021 · Director/co-writer Janicza Bravo of “Zola,” photographed in the L.A. Times Studio at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 in Park City, Utah.
Jun 30, 2021 · Janicza Bravo’s Zola was one of the first movie casualties of the pandemic, premiering at Sundance all the way back in January of 2020 to a stoned and adoring midnight audience before ...
Jun 23, 2021 · Janicza Bravo, director and co-writer of the new film 'Zola,' felt compelled to protect the complicated voice of the outrageous viral twitter thread on which the story is based.
Jun 29, 2021 · Writer-director Janicza Bravo and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris find a distinct, playful rhythm in nearly every image, sound, and piece of dialogue. Text message exchanges don't appear onscreen as ...
Aug 9, 2024 · August 9, 2024 @ 7:00 AM. New episodic series from Alfonso Cuarón, Thomas Vinterberg, Joe Wright and Janicza Bravo will screen in the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival’s Primetime ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Janicza Bravo never spent much time looking at herself. That is until 2020, when the pandemic’s onslaught of Zoom meetings forced the Zola and Lemon filmmaker to confront her reflection daily ...
Jul 15, 2021 · Zola helmer Janicza Bravo will direct the drama based on Octavia E. Butler’s classic sci-fi novel; she’ll also be an executive producer. Newcomer Mallori Johnson will play the lead role of ...