Zola
2021
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Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford ( / dʒəˈnɪksə / [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 .
Director: Zola. 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.
Zola is a 2020 American black comedy crime film directed by Janicza Bravo and co-written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris. It is based on a viral Twitter thread from 2015 by A'Ziah "Zola" King and the resulting Rolling Stone article "Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted" by David Kushner.
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...
Jun 30, 2021 · 'Zola' director/co-writer Janicza Bravo fought for the job and worked hard to defend the voice of A'Ziah King's original Twitter thread.
Jun 16, 2021 · How She Transformed a Viral Twitter Thread About Sex Work Into a Sinister Comedy. All of Janicza Bravo’s previous movies were playing in the place where humor and trauma meet. “Zola” was a ...
Jun 30, 2021 · Zola Is Janicza Bravo’s Comic Horror Show. The director sees the Twitter thread-turned-movie as both a classic comedy and a singular white nightmare. By Rachel Handler, a features writer at...
Janicza Bravo is an American writer, director, and photographer. She is best known for her work on the television series Atlanta, Love, and Dear White People. She has also directed several short films, including Gregory Go Boom, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Jun 29, 2021 · Director Janicza Bravo and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris talk to NPR's Mallory Yu about respecting the storytelling prowess of A'Ziah King while adapting her viral Twitter thread into a feature...
Jun 17, 2021 · Director Janicza Bravo on Zola, a Twitter Saga Gone Silver Screen. After a year’s delay, the director and co-writer debuts her much anticipated film, Zola. Devan Díaz calls her up to discuss the nuances of the tragedy, comedy and chemistry that the film takes on with gusto. Gallery.
