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Jun 11, 2021 · The Oscar-nominated writer-director looks back at her breakthrough film, Spike Lee’s funny producing style, and why Pariah’s legacy still makes her tear up.
Writer/Director Dee Rees is an alumna of New York University's graduate film program and a Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow. In 2018, Dee became the first Black woman nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for her highly-acclaimed film Mudbound (2017).
Jun 17, 2021 · Criterion first contacted Rees about releasing Mudbound, which earned a total of four Oscar nominations, but Rees asked them to consider Pariah (Criterion will release Mudbound in the fall).
May 22, 2020 · Dee Rees talks queer filmmaking, recent setbacks, and wanting to do it all. She's an Oscar nominee, an Emmy nominee, and a Sundance legend. Now the director of Mudbound and Bessie is ready to...
If you are not yet acquainted with her films, Rees is a phenomenal Black, lesbian director and screenwriter, with a rich and rewarding body of work that is racking up acclaim. Dee Rees came of age in the 1980s in a predominantly white suburb of Nashville.
Nov 29, 2023 · Fresh off the strike and newly back to work, American writer-director Dee Rees has set her sights on her next feature – a stylized dark comedy meant to visualize a central character’s frantic...
Jul 2, 2021 · Filmmaker Dee Rees made history on June 29 when her debut feature “ Pariah ” joined the Criterion Collection, making the Oscar and Emmy nominee the first Black American woman to have her work...
