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Nov 14, 2017 · Dee Rees also directed the HBO movie "Bessie" based on the life of Bessie Smith. Her 2011 movie "Pariah" is about a 17-year-old African-American girl coming out and dealing with the resulting ...
Feb 26, 2020 · When Dee Rees met author Sarah M. Broom in 2012, they made a bet over who owned more books. Broom sent Rees a photo of a tall stack in her bathroom. “She had more books than me in [that] one ...
Dee Rees is the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing since Suzanne de Passe in 1973 for Lady Sings the Blues. Mudbound also marks the first time a woman (Rachel Morrison) has ever been nominated for best cinematography in the Academy’s 90+ year history.
Nov 13, 2017 · Dee Rees is a tall woman of fierce charisma. She’s the kind of director who talks fast, ideas coming so quickly that those less inclined can barely keep up. And yet her output has been slow ...
Dee Rees. An alumna of New York University’s graduate film program and a 2008 Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow, Dee Rees is a writer-director whose feature film Pariah premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Pariah was honored with the Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition “Excellence in Cinematography” Award (Bradford ...
May 16, 2015 · When Dee Rees talks about what went into the writing and directing of “Bessie,” her language starts to shift into the rhythms of the great soul singer’s music. Bessie Smith, the subject of ...
Nov 24, 2017 · Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, Episode 42: ‘Mudbound’ Director Dee Rees Breaks the Rules of Narrative and Finds Truth in the Cracks
