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  • BIRTH 10/06/1969
  • Country United States
  • MOVIE 1
  • DIRECTOR 12
  • SCRIPT 9
  • PRODUCTION 2

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Gina Prince-Bythewood (born Gina Maria Prince on June 10, 1969) is an American film director and writer. Her primary credits as a director include the films Disappearing Acts and Love & Basketball, produced by Spike Lee and starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan, which won her the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

Bythewood attended UCLA's film school, where she also ran competitive track. At UCLA, she received the Gene Reynolds Scholarship for Directing and the Ray Stark Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates. She graduated in 1991. Along with her friends Mara Brock Akil, Sara Finney Johnson and Felicia Henderson (also a UCLA graduate), she endows The Four Sisters Scholarship.

She directed The Secret Life of Bees which was adapted from the best-selling book by Sue Monk Kidd. It was released by Fox Searchlight in October of 2008, and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and Urbanworld Film Festival that same year.

Her husband is Reggie Rock Bythewood, also a film director and writer.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Movie

Half the Picture
Half the Picture
Self

Director (12)

The Old Guard
The Old Guard
The Woman King
The Woman King
Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
(1 episode)
Beyond the Lights
Beyond the Lights
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees
Love & Basketball
Love & Basketball
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts
Shots Fired
Shots Fired
(2 episodes)
Children of Blood and Bone
Children of Blood and Bone
The Bernie Mac Show
The Bernie Mac Show
(1 episode)
Girlfriends
Girlfriends
(2 episodes)
Women of the Movement
Women of the Movement
(1 episode)

Script (9)

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
Before I Fall
Before I Fall
Beyond the Lights
Beyond the Lights
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees
Nappily Ever After
Nappily Ever After
Felicity
Felicity
(1 episode)
Love & Basketball
Love & Basketball
Shots Fired
Shots Fired
(2 episodes)
A Different World
A Different World
(4 episodes)

Production (2)

The Old Guard 2
The Old Guard 2
Biker Boyz
Biker Boyz