Zola
2021
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Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford (/ dʒ ə ˈ n ɪ k s ə /) 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.
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
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 ...
- Rachel Handler
- Staff Writer
From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola's stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. Zola (newcomer Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend of ...
Jan 28, 2020 · How Janicza Bravo and the ‘Zola’ Cast Brought the Viral Twitter Thread to Life. Five years after A’Ziah Wells King posted the Twitter thread known as #thestory — a tale of how a trip from ...
