Nia DaCosta is an American director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed the crime thriller film Little Woods, winning the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also directed the upcoming horror film Candyman. In August 2020, it was announced that she would direct the upcoming sequel to Captain Marvel.
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Nia DaCosta is an American director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed the crime thriller film Little Woods, winning the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also directed the upcoming horror film Candyman. In August 2020, it was announced that she would direct the upcoming sequel to Captain Marvel, becoming the first black woman and the youngest filmmaker to direct a Marvel film.
She is currently scheduled to be released on July 8, 2022. DaCostA was born in 19891990, in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Harlem. She always knew she wanted to be a writer, but it wasn’t until she watched Apocalypse Now that she became interested in filmmaking. She found inspiration in directors such as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola.
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