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.
70K Followers, 2,529 Following, 3,027 Posts - Janicza Bravo (@janicza) on Instagram: "Send dogs."
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...
Mar 3, 2022 · When I meet filmmaker Janicza Bravo on Zoom, she is wearing a Star of David around her neck, a gift from her stepfather which she’s had since she was young. “I'm going to Poland on Friday, and I'm probably going to not wear it in Poland, because I'm getting energy,” she says when I inquire about it.
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 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...
Jul 15, 2021 · FX has tapped “Zola” director and co-writer Janicza Bravo to direct the pilot of “Kindred,” starring Mallori Johnson in the lead role.
Jul 15, 2021 · Janicza Bravo will direct an FX pilot based on Octavia E. Butler's 'Kindred,' with Mallori Johnson set to play the lead role.
