Neema Barnette

Biography

Neema Barnette (born December 14, 1949) is an American film director. She was the first African-American woman to direct a primetime sitcom and also the first African-American woman to get a three-picture deal with Sony. Barnette has won several awards, including a Peabody Award, an Emmy Award, a Sundance Film Festival Award, the Sojourner Truth Award at Cannes, and two NAACP Image Awards. She has...

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Birthday: December 14, 1949

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.

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2003

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