Gina Prince-Bythewood

Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood (born June 10, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. She began her career as a writer for multiple television shows in the 1990s, including the anthology series CBS Schoolbreak Special, for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards. Prince-Bythewood made her feature film directorial debut with Love & Basketball (2000), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award. Her other works include Disappearing Acts (2000), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), and Beyond the Lights (2014). She became the first black woman to direct a major comic-book film The Old Guard (2020). Prince-Bythewood earned nominations for Best Director at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the British Academy Film Awards for The Woman King (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gina Prince-Bythewood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

Documentary on the making of the film “Love & Basketball” produced by the Criterion Collection in 2021

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Variety Studio: Directors on Directors

PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of directors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.

Release Date2021-03-03

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Episode Count1

Project Greenlight

In this revival of the groundbreaking series, Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, and Gina Prince-Bythewood search for Hollywood’s next great director.

Release Date2023-07-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

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Episode Count10

Half the Picture

At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.

Release Date2018-01-23

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Vote Count14

The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana, and Vanessa.

Release Date2001-11-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count62

Girlfriends

The series revolves around the friendship of four African-American women in different phases of their lives. They explore the many trials and tribulations that most women face today such as relationships, family, friends and other current issues that will interest most women. Whether it’s getting over a divorce, finding a career, or looking for true love, Girlfriends delivers along with comedy and wit.

Release Date2000-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count39

Everybody Hates Chris

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

Release Date2005-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1021

Felicity

Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.

Release Date1998-09-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count79

A Different World

A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.

Release Date1987-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count65

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger

Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.

Release Date2018-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count612

The Woman King

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

Release Date2022-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2171

The Old Guard

Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.

Release Date2020-07-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4311

The Old Guard 2

Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe threatening their mission to protect humanity.

Release Date2025-07-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Shots Fired

A media storm sets off when an African-American cop kills a white teenager in a small North Carolina town.

Release Date2017-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count35

Love & Basketball

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

Release Date2000-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count441

The Secret Life of Bees

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.

Release Date2008-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count535

Biker Boyz

A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets.

Release Date2003-01-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count369

Women of the Movement

A limited series focusing on Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal murder in the Jim Crow South.

Release Date2022-01-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

South Central

South Central is an American comedy-drama series that aired on the Fox network from April 5, 1994 to June 7, 1994. It was cancelled following its first season, and the airing of only 10 episodes.

Release Date1994-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Beyond the Lights

Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?

Release Date2014-11-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count379

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the joys and sorrows of life, marriage and children, happiness and blues, love and loss, new shades of heartbreak and illness threaten to stir up the past when the trio sees their bond put to the test as they face their most challenging times yet.

Release Date2024-08-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count19

Nappily Ever After

After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.

Release Date2018-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count811

Children of Blood and Bone

Zelie and her older brother Tzain form an alliance with the king’s daughter, Princess Amari, and son, Prince Inan, to fight back against his brutal rule.

Release Date2027-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Disappearing Acts

A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.

Release Date2000-12-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count40

An Untamed State

The powerful, unflinching story of a Haitian-American woman kidnapped for ransom in front of her husband and child.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Bowl of Pork

A man accidentally causes the Rodney King riots.

Release Date1998-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

L.A. Noir

Step inside the suspenseful world of film noir in a series of short virtual-reality films, and see what its like to be in a scene with the year’s best actors.

Release Date2016-12-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Stitches

Graduate film of Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Release Date1991-04-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Progress

Parallels the killing of a Black man in the 1960s by the Ku Klux Klan with the killing of a Black man in the 1990s by a Black gang.

Release Date1997-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector