Tina Mabry
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| Born | February 9, 1978 Tupelo, Mississippi, United States |
| Occupations | Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
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),[1] she was named one of '25 New Faces of Indie Film' by Filmmaker magazine and among the 'Top Forty Under 40' by The Advocate.[2][3][4][5] Mabry was named a James Baldwin Fellow in Media by United States Artists.
Early life
Tina Mabry was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1978.[2] After seeing Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry and Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball while an undergrad at the University of Mississippi, she determined she had to go into film and moved to Los Angeles.[6] She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Cinema and Television from the University of Southern California.
See also
References
- ↑ "Mississippi Damned - Crew". Mississippi Damned Official Website. Archived from the original on 5 March 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- 1 2 "25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM". Filmmaker Magazine. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ↑ "Forty Under 40". The Advocate. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ↑ Anderson, Tre’vell (June 2, 2016). "Our Diverse 100: Meet Tina Mabry, the director turning negatives into positives". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ↑ "Outfest Video Interviews: Kimberly Reed, Ashleigh Sumner, Tina Mabry". Pride.com. July 20, 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ↑ "Our Diverse 100: Meet Tina Mabry, the director turning negatives into positives". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
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