Female Directors of Color
Director credits: Adam (2017) The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2017) Appropriate Behavior (2014) Nose Job (2010)
Director credits: Dil Dhadakne Do (2015) Bombay Talkies (2013) Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) Luck by Chance (2009)
Director credits: Mary Shelley (2017) Wadjda (2012)
Director credits: TV: Grey's Anatomy, Insecure, Scandal, Empire, How to Get Away with Murder, All of Us, Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends, A Different World, Fame
Director credits: B for Boy (2013) Ava (2010) Epilogue (2009)
Director credits: The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1975) I Am Somebody (1970) Malcolm X: Nationalist or Humanist? (1967) The Cool World (1964) Integration Report One (1960)
Director credits: Moko Jumbie (2017) Jeffrey's Calypso (2005) Zara Mirage (2002)
Director credits: Down in the Delta (1998)
Director credits: A Way of Life (2004) Belle (2013) A United Kingdom (2016) Where Hands Touch (2017)
Director credits: TV: Being Mary Jane, Queen Sugar Civil Brand (2002) Run For the Dream - The Gail Devers Story (1996) The Cosby Show A Different World
Director credits: TV: American Horror Story Whitney (2015)
Director credits: Amen: The Life and Music of Jester Hairston (2013) All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11 (2004)
Director credits: Sonnambula (2009) Afronauts (2014) Boneshaker (2013)
Director credits: Divorce, Atlanta, Lemon (2017) Man Rots from the Head (2016) Woman in Deep (2016) Hard World for Small Things (2016) Gregory Go Boom Eat (2013)
Director credits: La Clave (2016) Deep Blue Breath (2011) Real Women Have Curves (2002) The Water Carrier (1996) El reino de los cielos (1994)
Director credits: Viceroy's House (2017) It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010) Paris, je t'aime (2006) Bride & Prejudice (2004) Bend It Like Beckham (2002) What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny? (1994) Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
Director credits: Shanghai Strangers (2012) Autumn in New York (2000) Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
Director credits: Alma's Rainbow (1994) Zajota and the Boogie Spirit (1989) The Lure and the Lore (1988) Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984) Syvilla: They Dance to Her Drum (1979)
Director credits: Losing Ground (1982) The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980)
Director credits: Claws, Insecure, Pretty Little Liars, Imposters, The Good Fight, Transparent, Valentine Road (2013)
Director credits: TV: Queen Sugar Daughters of the Dust (1991) SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997) Funny Valentines (1999) Incognito (1999) Love Song (2000) The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Director credits: Filmstatement (1982) Re-creating Black Women's Media Image (1983) Crocodile Conspiracy (1986) Sweet Bird of Youth (1987) Cycles (1989) Trumpetistically Clora Bryant (1989) A Period Piece (1991) A Powerful Thang (1991) Mother of the River (1995) Compensation (1999) Passengers (2009) Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA (2011)
Director credits: Under the Smoky Roof (2017) Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanand (2013) Roya-ye khis (2005) A Candle in the Wind (2004)
Hair Wolf (2018) Sketch (2017)
Director credits: Ties That Bind (2011) Where Children Play (2015) Like Cotton Twines (2016)
Director credits: TV: Queen Sugar Black is Blue (2018) The Owls (2010) Stranger Inside (2001) The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Director credits: TV: Queen Sugar A Wrinkle in Time (2018) 13th (2016) Selma (2014) Middle of Nowhere (2012) I Will Follow (2010) This Is the Life (2008)
Director credit: The House is Black (1963)
Director: Godspeed (2016) 77 Days (2016)
Director credits: Verdict Not Guilty (1930) Hell Bound Train (1929)
Director credits: One Way or Another (1977) Una isla para Miguel (1968) ...y tenemos sabor (1967) Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia (1966)
Director credits: Play the Devil (2016) Womanish Ways, Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy: The Women's Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas 1948-1962 (2012) Rain (2008)
Director credits: Second Coming (2014) Heat (2009)
Director credits: TV: Queen Sugar Mosquita y Mari (2012) Pandora's (2008) Viernes girl (2005) Pura Lengua (2005)
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
TV: Famous in Love, Queen Sugar, American Crime, Greenleaf Film: The Killers (1995) Night Catches Us (2010)
TV: Empire, Shameless, Elementary, Nashville Film: Just Wright (2010) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2008) Something New (2006)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) Bessie Coleman's Dream to Fly (1993)
Hug (2006) Fishbowl (2005) Picture Bride (1994)
Film: Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland (2017) Runaway Island (2015) Tuesday Morning Ride (1995) TV: Single Ladies, Crossing Jordan, Soul Food, NYPD Blue
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940) Baptism (1929) Children Games (1928) Logging (1928)
Plaquemines (2016) Vanishing Pearls: The Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache (2014)
Flowers (2015) Black Swan Theory (2011) Say Grace Before Drowning (2010) African Booty Scratcher (2007)
The Worst of the Worst: Portrait of a Supermax Prison (2012) Alienation (2011)
Radiance (2017) Seed (2016) Sweet Bean (2015) Still the Water (2014) Chiri (2012) The Mourning Forest (2007) Suzaku (1997)
TV: Queen Sugar Film: Circumstance (2011) The Day I Died (2006) Not For Sale (2006) Rangeh eshgh (2004)
Something Necessary (2013) Project Daddy (2004) Dangerous Affair (2002)
TV: Room 104, The Good Fight, American Crime, Transparent, Queen Sugar Film: Lovesong (2016) For Ellen (2012) Treeless Mountain (2008) In Between Days (2006)
TV: Shameless, Greenleaf, Scandal, Being Mary Jane, Southland
TV: Halt and Catch Fire, Billions, XX, The Man in the High Castle, Masters of Sex, Chicago Fire, The L Word Film: Invitation (2015) Æon Flux (2005) Girlfight (2000)
Rio, I Love You (2014) Where Do We Go Now? (2011) Caramel (2007)
Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1991) Miss Fluci Moses (1987) A Different Image (1982) Your Children Come Back to You (1979)
Octavio is Dead (2017) Whispers and Shoulders (2015) Year of the Carnivore (2009) Unlocked (2005)
TV: Shots Fired Film: Black Nativity (2013) Talk to Me (2007) Eve's Bayou (1997)
Everything But a Man (2017) Ben & Ara (2015) Phat Girlz (2006)
Amelia's Closet (2016) The Discovery of Dit Dodson (2016) Jean (2014) It Happens (2013)
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss (2014) Imagine a Future (2013) Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012) Angela Davis: Le Combat Continue (2010) Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)
TV: Insecure, Queen Sugar, Dear White People, Scandal, Queen of the South Film: An American Girl Story-Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (2016) Mississippi Damned (2009)
TV: Power, Claws, Gypsy, Queen Sugar, American Crime, Grey's Anatomy Film: Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Twice as Nice (1989) Will (1981)
The Lost Valentine (2011) Cadillac Records (2008) Their Eyes Were Watching God (2008)
TV: Insecure, Master of None Beyoncé: All Night (2016) Beyoncé: Formation (2016) Jay-Z Feat. Beyoncé: Part II - On the Run (2014) Beyoncé: Pretty Hurts (2013)
Anatomy of Violence (2016) Beeba Boys (2015) Midnight's Children (2012) Heaven on Earth (2008) Water (2005) Earth (1998) Fire (1996)
Mankiller (2017)
Elza (2011) Paris la métisse (2005)
Jinn (2017) Dream (2015) Deluge (2014) Jessica's Mom (or the Science of Triangles) (2012) Two Bodies (2011)
Queen of Katwe (2016) New York, I Love You (2008) The Namesake (2006) Monsoon Wedding (2001) Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) Mississippi Masala (1991) Salaam Bombay! (1988)
In the Morning (2014) The End of Winter (2009) I Want You (2007)
Solace (2017) America's Shadows: HIV Risk in Black & Latino Youth (2008)
The Killing Yard (2001) Ruby Bridges (1998) A Dry White Season (1989) Sugar Cane Alley (1983) Rue Cases Negres (1983)
20 Weeks (2017) Dandekar Makes a Sandwich (2015) Mother at Work! (2015) Yes! The Perfect Boyfriend! (2013) Raspberry Magic (2010)
TV: Major Crimes, The Exorcist Film: Advantageous (2015) Half-Life (2008) Love, Ltd. (2000)
TV: Shots Fired, Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends, The Bernie Mac Show Film: Beyond the Lights (2014) The Secret Life of Bees (2008) Disappearing Acts (2000) Love and Basketball (2000)
Kalyana Vaibhogame (2016) Dum dum pee pee (2013) Jabardasth (2013) Ala Modalaindi (2011)
TV: Empire Film: Mudbound (2017) Bessie (2015) Pariah (2011)
Blossoms and Veils (1998)
TV: Scandal, Rebel, Underground, Queen Sugar, Shadowhunters
TV: Jack Ryan Film: Miracles From Heaven (2016) The 33 (2015) Girl in Progress (2012) Revolución (2010) Under the Same Moon (2007) Family Portrait (2004)
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (2016) Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution (2012)
Princesita (2015) Young and Wild (2012) Blocks (2010) Smog (2000)
TV: True Blood, The L Word Film: Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) D.E.B.S. (2004)
The Kite (2003) A Civilized People (1999) Nos guerres imprudentes (1995) Écrans de sable (1991)
White Famous, Supergirl, Empire, Shots Fired, Scandal, Rosewood, The Flash, Black-ish, Survivor's Remorse, The Originals, American Crime, Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends
Meditation Park (2017) Ninth Floor (2015) I Saw You (2013) All (2011) Long Life Happiness & Prosperity (2002) Double Happiness (1994) Me, Mom and Mona (1993)
Drylongso (1998) Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (1992) Daily Rains (1990)
Hero (2017) A Winter Tale (2007) Literature Alive (2005-2006) Lord Have Mercy! (2003-2004) What My Mother Told Me (1995) Bideshi (1995)
Class Picture (2014) Defining Moments (2007) Sophisticated Romance (2007) The Round Table (2006) Soul Connection (2001)
TV: Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Major Crimes, Pretty Little Liars, The Game Film: Love by the 10th Date (2017) With This Ring (2015)
Mixing Nia (1998) Compañera (1993)
BlacKorea (2017) Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story (2016) For the Love of Ruth (2015) Six Weeks (2012) All About Us (2007) All About You (2001) Two Seasons (2000)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Monson Wedding (2001)
Nadia et Sarra (2004) The Season of Men (2000) The Silences of the Palace (1994)
Hands to the Sky Catch Them & They're Yours (2017) Zero (2012) Planting Hope (2010) How to Become a Pretty Girl (2008)
Hold On (2017) You Can Go (2017) Homegoings (2013)
The Mighty Ground (2017) Can You Dig This (2015) Tunnel Vision (2013)
Reset (2015) The Last Weekend (1998)
Sisters in Cinema (2003) Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999) Monique (1992)
Butterfly Rising (2010)
Saving Face (2004)
Habibi Rasak Kharban (2011) West Fingerboard Road (2010) Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf (2006)