Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024

Much has been written about the one-and-only time the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met. It was on March 26, 1964, and the two civil rights leaders were both in Washington for a Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act.

The moment is also depicted in the new installment of...

Wednesday, Jul. 26, 2023

From Issa Rae's perspective, there's plenty of talented female filmmakers willing to work. However, she knows most haven't been afforded the same support as their male counterparts.

Now, Rae feels compelled to create a supportive platform for aspiring women directors through the reboot...

Friday, Jun. 23, 2023

Twenty-five years ago, Gina Prince-Bythewood's "Love & Basketball" was essentially dead.

She'd pitched her now classic film all over Hollywood and everyone had said no. Then she got a call inviting her to the Sundance Labs – a creative retreat for aspiring directors and screenwriters...

Friday, Jan. 6, 2023

Aristotle famously wrote, “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”

This applies to the most accomplished artists as reflected in the awards coverage in this issue of SHOOT. Gina Prince-Bythewood, lauded for directing The Woman King, shared that she...

Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022

The Gotham Film & Media Institute has announced that director/writer/producer Gina Prince-Bythewood will receive the Filmmaker Tribute and Don Katz, founder and executive chairman of Audible, Inc., has been named recipient of the Innovator Tribute during the 32nd annual Gotham Awards...

Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2022

When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of not just the years-long push to make "The Woman King," but of a lifelong battle.

"It was sort of...

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022

Gina Prince-Bythewood didn't get very far into reading the script for "The Woman King," a historical epic about a real West African army of female warriors, before she knew she wanted to direct it.

"Literally five pages into it I knew it was going to be my next film," Prince-Bythewood...

Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2022

TriStar Pictures’ The Woman King--directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood--will have its world premiere at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. 

The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the...

Tuesday, Jul. 7, 2020

Gina Prince-Bythewood knows what good fighting looks like. The "Love & Basketball" director has been an athlete her entire life, but she also just loves action movies. So when she started dreaming up the template for a bare-knuckle clash between Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne in the new...

Tuesday, Mar. 21, 2017

The title of "Shots Fired" makes it clear the new drama series is treading on contentious turf.

Yes, a police shooting of an unarmed youth is at the center of the story, paired with a previous death by gunfire. But it's an African-American sheriff's deputy who has killed a white college...

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