DIRECTORS

Britt Banks is an award-winning director and screenwriter devoted to amplifying the voices of women and girls of color. Her work weaves bold storytelling with emotional precision, often centered on urgent issues within the Black community, such as kinship care and police brutality. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Britt has also worked extensively as a digital imaging technician, including on the 2022 Sundance-premiering feature Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Britt is a Ryan Murphy Productions’ Half-Initiative Director Shadow 9-1-1: Lone Star, Winner of The Future of Film is Female pre-production grant, Winner of the Kickstarter x Tubi: Filmstream Collective Fund grant, Alumna of the Almanack Screenwriter Sessions, and Winner of the Black Life Film Festival grant. Her films have screened at the Directors Guild of America and Academy-Qualifying Film Festivals around the world. Her latest short, We Are Not Okay, executive produced by Top Dawg Entertainment, premiered at MoMA in New York and has since screened at AGBO Studios and AMC Networks in Los Angeles and was an official selection of the prestigious Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.