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Tina Mabry

Nacimiento : 1978-02-09, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Historia

Tina Mabry (born February 9, 1978) is an American film director and screenwriter from Tupelo, Mississippi. Following the release of her first feature film Mississippi Damned (2009), she was named one of '25 New Faces of Indie Film' by Filmmaker magazine and among the 'Top Forty Under 40' by The Advocate. Mabry began her film career with her short film Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan (2005). In 2007, she penned the film Itty Bitty Titty Committee. The film was directed by Jamie Babbit and premiered at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2015, Mabry was hired as a producer, writer, and director on the OWN series Queen Sugar, created by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey.

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Películas

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

Self

Profundizando en un siglo de películas de género que las utilizaron, caricaturizaron, explotaron, marginaron y finalmente adoptaron, esta es la historia no contada de los estadounidenses negros en Hollywood a través de su conexión con el género de terror.

Half the Picture

Herself

At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors tell the stories of their art, lives and careers. Having endured a long history of systemic discrimination, women filmmakers may be getting the first glimpse of a future that values their voices equally.

An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win

Director

Set in Detroit during the Civil Rights Movement, "An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win" examines the joyful life and troubled times of an irrepressible 10-year-old African-American girl whose vivid imagination and creativity reinforce her optimism. When shocking national events threaten her sense of security, Melody must find inner strength to restore her hope for a better world.

4% desigualdad en Hollywood

Self

La desigualdad salarial entre hombres y mujeres es uno de los temas que más ruido está haciendo en Hollywood en los últimos años, siendo denunciada en sus intervencione en la ceremonia de los Oscar por actrices como Meryl Streep o Patricia Arquette. De las 1.300 películas más taquilleras de los últimos 12 años, sólo el 4% fue dirigido por mujeres. En 1929, antes de poder votar en las elecciones estadounidenses, las mujeres dirigían más películas que hoy. En 85 años, sólo cuatro mujeres han sido candidatas al Oscar a la mejor dirección y, de ellas, sólo Kathryn Bigelow ha ganado el premio.

Mississippi Damned

Writer

Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.

Mississippi Damned

Director

Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Screenplay

Abandonada por su novia, rechazada por la única universidad en la que solicitó el ingreso y vistiendo sujetadores de talla A en un mundo de tallas C, Anna lamenta su suerte. Saliendo del trabajo conoce a Sadie, la atractiva líder de un grupo radical punk-feminista llamado Clits In Action. Anna se integra en ese círculo secreto, cuyo objetivo es erradicar las imágenes falocéntricas y misóginas, y se lanza a una primera misión radical. (FILMAFFINITY)

Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan

Director

Fimmaker Tina Mabry's short drama about a woman who loses her life partner in a tragic accident, then must rebuild her fractured relationship with her estranged teenage son.

Crossover

Director

A struggling mother must decide whether to sell her own organs to give her children a better education.

The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat

Screenplay

Three best friends dubbed “The Supremes,” who have weathered life’s storms together for two generations through marriage and children, happiness and the blues, find their paths at a crossroads that test their lifelong bond.

The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat

Director