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Gina Prince-Bythewood, filmmaker

The writer-director of the new show Shots Fired takes on race, police shootings and the lack of Hollywood movies about powerful women of color
IRONS IN THE FIRE Prince-Bythewood directed the pilot for the new Marvel series Cloak & Dagger Her next film will be an adaptation of Roxane Gay’s novel An Untamed State, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“EVERY PROJECT I DO STARTS WITH AN IMAGE,” SAYS filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood. “For this script, the first image that came to me was a black woman standing in front of a house, looking in as

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