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Feb 20, 2024 · 11 Black Directors Changing the Game in Hollywood. From A.V. Rockwell to Ryan Coogler, meet the Black directors shaking up the industry. Black directors have long helmed some of the most seminal ...
1. John Singleton. Producer. Writer. Director. Boyz n the Hood (1991) Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986.
- Haley Elizabeth Anderson
- Blitz Bazawule
- Radha Blank
- Janicza Bravo
- Stefon Bristol
- Chinonye Chukwu
- JD Dillard
- Rashaad Ernesto Green
- Shaka King
- Julius Onah
Pillars, If There Is A Light (shorts) To find a brand-new voice already so fully formed is rare. While Haley Elizabeth Anderson (above left), a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch program, first generated waves at Tribeca 2019 – Queen Latifah and Dee Rees singled out her short filmIf There Is a Light there – it was at Sundance 2020 that her coming-of-ag...
94% Black Is King (2020) (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images) Before Queen Bey anointed him to direct her visual album Black is King, Ghanaian-born and New York-based hip-hop artist Blitz Bazawule’s spellbinding ghost story The Burial of Kojo caught the eye of in-the-know film fans and critics. Distributed by Ava DuVernay’s Array on Netflix, the imp...
99% The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) Not since Spike Lee’s similarly shot black-and-white first film, She’s Gotta Have It,has a Black filmmaker’s directorial-writing-starring debut astounded audiences as much as Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version. Her sharp, hilarious satire, concerning a once-ascendant Black playwright now shifting gears to...
88% Zola (2020) (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Janicza Bravo’s past credits include episodes of the acclaimed TV shows Atlanta and Dear White People, and her offbeat feature debut, Lemon, but it’s the 2020 Sundance favorite Zolathat’s soon to make her a household name. The film is an adaptation of an infamous – and viral – 148-tweet Twitter ...
93% See You Yesterday (2019) (Photo by Cara Howe / © Netflix / courtesy Everett Collection) When Spike Lee produces your film you better deliver. Stefon Bristol, in his ambitious feature debut See You Yesterday, indeed delivered with an ingenious sci-fi time-travel romp that explores police brutality just as nimbly as it plays with theories of rela...
92% Clemency (2019) (Photo by Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection) Though the prison industrial complex adversely affects Black people, it feels like the bulk of prison films – from Kiss of the Spider Woman to Dead Man Walking – feature white protagonists. With her sophomore film, Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu crafted a ruminative character study of pri...
80% Sleight (2016) (Photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage) JD Dillard is so well-known among cinephiles and genre fans, it’s odd to call him up-and-coming. His subversive first feature Sleight vividly reimagined the superhero genre through the eyes of a Black street magician. His follow-up Sweetheart, a spine-tingling creature feature set on a deserted i...
93% Premature (2019) (Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images) More than a couple films struggled to break through in the early crazy days of the pandemic: Released in February 2020 on Video On Demand, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s swooning slow-burn summer romance Premature was one of them. This patient love story sees Harlem teen Ayanna (Zora Howard) dating t...
97% Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) To evoke the words of Black Panther Fred Hampton, one of the central figures of Shaka King’s upcoming Judas and the Black Messiah: this director is a revolutionary. After bouncing from the acclaimed TBS comedy People of Earth to the equally heralded Hulu sitcom Shrill, he...
90% Luce (2019) (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Often when Black filmmakers release a dud, they struggle to find a second chance. Julius Onah bucked that trend. He first directed the critically derided The Cloverfield Paradox, only to follow-up that disaster with the critically heralded Luce. The thought-provoking latter film interrogates rac...
Dec 13, 2022 · Discover the Top Black Producers and Directors: Trailblazing Creative in the Industry. Learn more about the top black producers and directors breaking down the status quo in the industry. Check out their extraordinary work below. By Bleu Magazine. Dec. 13 2022, Updated 2:02 p.m. ET
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- John Boyega & UpperRoom Productions. Boyega sealed a deal with Netflix through his production company, UpperRoom, to develop non-English language films centered on West and East Africa.
- Jordan Peele & Monkey Paw Productions. Most of you may know Peele from his famous movies Get Out, US and his new TV series LoveCraft Country, but he has definitely dipped his “paws” in many film projects and has many more creations on the way.
- Matthew A Cherry & Lion Forge Animation. Mr. Cherry is a Chicago native and a former NFL wide receiver who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers and the Baltimore Ravens.
- Jeff Clanagan & Codeblack Films. In 2005, Clanagan founded Codeblack Enterprises. Jeff Clanagan, recognized as one of Black Enterprise Magazine’s Top 50 Hollywood Power Brokers and a member of Ebony Magazine’s Power 150, is responsible for the release of nearly 200 DVDs.
Feb 1, 2023 · To kick off Black History Month, Parade is saluting 21 Black, female-identifying, badass bosses who curate narratives and shift perspectives on TV and in film. They are directors, writers ...
Feb 1, 2024 · In recent years, quite a few Black directors have seen a greater level of support and reverence, from “Get Out” director Jordan Peele to “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler, “Moonlight”...
