Gina Prince-Bythewood (born Gina Maria Prince on June 10, 1969) is an American film director and writer. Her primary credits as a director include the films Disappearing Acts and Love & Basketball, produced by Spike Lee and starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan, which won her the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
At 7 years of age, Gina Prince-Blythewood’s family television broke, and they didn’t get another one for 8 years. It wa...
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Gina Prince-Bythewood (born Gina Maria Prince on June 10, 1969) is an American film director and writer. Her primary credits as a director include the films Disappearing Acts and Love & Basketball, produced by Spike Lee and starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan, which won her the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
At 7 years of age, Gina Prince-Blythewood’s family television broke, and they didn’t get another one for 8 years. It was during this time that she fell in love with books and would read 20 a week. Blythewood would go on to become one of the few African-American female directors and even fewer African-American female directors to have a film distributed by Hollywood. Blythewood attended UCLA’s film school, where she also ran competitive track. At UCLA, she received the Gene Reynolds Scholarship for Directing and the Ray Stark Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates. She graduated in 1991. Along with her friends Mara Brock Akil, Sara Finney Johnson...
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