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Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford (/ dʒ ə ˈ n ɪ k s ə /) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. [2] [3] Her films include Gregory Go Boom , a winner of the short-film jury award at the Sundance Film Festival ; Lemon , co-written with Brett Gelman ; and Zola , co-written with playwright Jeremy O. Harris .
Janicza Bravo is a Panamanian-American filmmaker who has directed and written shorts and TV shows, such as Zola, Lemon, and Dear White People. She has also worked as a costume designer and actress in various projects, including Atlanta and Mrs. America.
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Jun 30, 2021 · Janicza Bravo is sitting in her home in Los Angeles, recounting a recent, lightly surreal Uber ride. When she hopped in the car, the driver turned and asked if she had been vaccinated.
Zola. (film) Zola is a 2020 American black comedy crime film directed by Janicza Bravo and co-written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris. It is based on a viral Twitter thread from 2015 by A'Ziah "Zola" King and the resulting Rolling Stone article "Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted" by David Kushner.
Jun 30, 2021 · Director/co-writer Janicza Bravo of “Zola,” photographed in the L.A. Times Studio at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 in Park City, Utah.
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Jun 30, 2021 · Janicza Bravo’s Zola was one of the first movie casualties of the pandemic, premiering at Sundance all the way back in January of 2020 to a stoned and adoring midnight audience before ...
From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola's stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. Zola (newcomer Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend of ...
