Nia DaCosta

Nia DaCosta (born 1989 Nov 8) is an American director and screenwriter. Quotes. He’s a person, which is the whole point of this movie. He’s not just some like floating demon slayer, and it’s a really tricky balance…He’s someone who clearly has a lot of pain, and that’s something I find really interesting about him as a character. On what drew her to the character of Candyman in Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’” in The Guardian (2021 Aug 26) I love horror and I felt like I had a really good idea about how to make something scary, but also I’m very measured, especially with a story like this, about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. On her approach to the horror genre in Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’” in The Guardian (2021 Aug 26) I would have hated getting the question, ‘Isn’t it so timely right now, with all these deaths going on?’ That’s not why we made it. But I think it will happen again – a summer like last summer. I think that the story we’re telling was about that: the fact that it’s cyclical. It could come out next year, it could come out any time and still be relevant. On how the original release date for Candyman (2021) coincided with one of the heights of the Black Lives Matter in Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’” in The Guardian (2021 Aug 26) It’s not necessarily overtly racist, but it is shocking the way people have talked to me in my position as a director. People who work for me. Especially on a movie like this, where Jordan was the only other person of colour at the level of decision-making on the movie. And that’s unacceptable, frankly. On the racism that she still encounters as a Black female director in “‘I had to leave Hollywood to save myself’: Kim Novak on art, bipolar, Hitchcock and happiness” in The Guardian (2021 Feb 15) External links Category:21st-century African-American women Category: Screenwriters from the United States Category:Film directors from the United States Category: 1989 births Category: Living people Category:Women authors from the United States