Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball, Beyond the Lights, The Woman King) will conduct a seminar on directing actors, with scene breakdowns from several of her feature films. Gina’s work examines and celebrates the complexities of Black lives, both contemporary and historical, and she is noted for her devotion to working with actors.
Gina is a prolific filmmaker whose work includes the modern-day classics Love and Basketball, Disappearing Acts, and Beyond the Lights. She also served as the showrunner of Shots Fired, the Fox limited series about the aftermath of a police-involved shooting, starring Sanaa Lathan. In 2020, Prince-Bythewood helmed The Old Guard, an action movie about soldiers with unique powers starring Kiki Layne and Charlize Theron. It marks the first comic book movie adaptation directed by a Black woman. In 2022, she directed the blockbuster The Woman King, set in the 19th century about the women warriors from the Dahomey tribe.
This event is catered towards students in the Film Directing and Acting programs, but is open to the institute.
This event is co-sponsored by the School of Film Video, the Office of the President and Nick England Intercultural Arts Project (ICAP) Grant.