A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
United States
Born:
June 10, 1969
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. Bythewood 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 and Felicia Henderson (also a UCLA graduate), she endows The Four Sisters Scholarship. She directed The Secret Life of Bees which was adapted from the best-selling book by Sue Monk Kidd. It was released by Fox Searchlight in October of 2008, and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and Urbanworld Film Festival that same year. Her husband is Reggie Rock Bythewood, also a film director and writer.
Director:
1991 Stitches
1997 Progress
1998 Bowl of Pork
2000 Disappearing Acts
2000 Love & Basketball
2008 The Secret Life of Bees
2014 Beyond the Lights
2020 The Old Guard
2022 The Woman King
???? An Untamed State
???? Children of Blood and Bone
Producer:
1991 Stitches
1997 Progress
1998 Bowl of Pork
2000 Disappearing Acts
2000 Love & Basketball
2003 Biker Boyz
2008 The Secret Life of Bees
2014 Beyond the Lights
2020 The Old Guard
2022 The Woman King
???? An Untamed State
???? Children of Blood and Bone
???? The Old Guard 2
Screenplay:
1991 Stitches
1997 Progress
1998 Bowl of Pork
2000 Disappearing Acts
2000 Love & Basketball
2003 Biker Boyz
2008 The Secret Life of Bees
2014 Beyond the Lights
2017 Before I Fall
2020 The Old Guard
2022 The Woman King
2024 The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
???? An Untamed State
???? Children of Blood and Bone
???? The Old Guard 2
Writer:
1991 Stitches
1997 Progress
1998 Bowl of Pork
2000 Disappearing Acts
2000 Love & Basketball
2003 Biker Boyz
2008 The Secret Life of Bees
2014 Beyond the Lights
2017 Before I Fall
2020 The Old Guard
2022 The Woman King
2024 The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
???? An Untamed State
???? Children of Blood and Bone
???? The Old Guard 2
Creator:
2017 Shots Fired
Director:
2000 Girlfriends
2001 The Bernie Mac Show
2017 Shots Fired
2018 Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
2022 Women of the Movement
Executive Producer:
2000 Girlfriends
2001 The Bernie Mac Show
2017 Shots Fired
2018 Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
2022 Women of the Movement
2023 Project Greenlight
Writer:
1987 A Different World
1994 South Central
1998 Felicity
2000 Girlfriends
2001 The Bernie Mac Show
2017 Shots Fired
2018 Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
2022 Women of the Movement
2023 Project Greenlight
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.