Sir Steve Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, visual artist, screenwriter, film producer, television writer, television producer, and television director. He is known for his award-winning film 12 Years a Slave (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 slave narrative memoir. He also directed and co-wrote Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish …
Nia DaCosta is a writer, director from New York City. Her debut feature film, Little Woods, is a complex family drama that made it’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. It won the Nora Ephron Award for ‘spirited and bold’ storytelling. Her script for Little Woods was one of the 12 projects chosen for the 2015 Sundance …
Luís Lázaro Sacramento Ramos (born November 1, 1978) is a Brazilian actor, presenter, director, writer and voice actor. He started his acting career with the Flock of Olodum Theater group, in Salvador, and is best known for his portrayal of João Francisco dos Santos in the 2002 film Madame Satã (film). In 2007, he was …
Kunle Afolayan is a Nigerian film director, producer and actor. In 2006, he directed the first Nigerian film ever to be screened at the 2007 Pan African Film Festival, IRAPADA (REDEMPTION). Afolayan’s films have been screened at FESPACO, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the London Film Festival BFI, New York Africa Film Festival, amongst others.2010; …
Kenya Barris is a Writer, Producer, and showrunner. He was best known for creating the groundbreaking sitcom “Black-ish” (ABC, 2014-). Born in Inglewood, California in 1974, Barris’ family eventually relocated to a less impoverished neighborhood, when Barris’ mother earned her real estate license and his father was given a settlement for having been badly injured …
Jeymes Samuel is the British-Nigerian filmmaker who made his feature debut with the Netflix Western ‘The Harder They Fall’, has signed with CAA for representation. The Netflix chart-topper centers on outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors), who learns that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being released from prison, rounding up his gang to exact revenge …
Ryan Kyle Coogler is an African-American filmmaker and producer who is from Oakland, California. He is known for directing the Black Panther film series, Creed, a Rocky spin-off and Fruitvale Station. He frequently casts Michael B. Jordan in his works. He produced the Creed sequels, Judas and the Black Messiah and Space Jam: A New …