Nia DaCosta

Nia DaCosta born November 8 1989 is an American filmmaker She rose to prominence with her featurelength directorial debut Little Woods 2018 a crime thriller which won the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival After working on other projects most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series Top Boy in 2019 DaCosta became the first Black female director to debut at No 1 at the US box office for the weekend opening of the horror film Candyman 2021 She then became the first black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film with The Marvels 2023 which despite being a boxoffice bomb became the highestgrossing film directed by a black woman Description above from the Wikipedia article Nia DaCosta licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia