22 Movies You Didn’t Know Had Black Directors

Hollywood tends to pigeonhole our filmmakers into only making urban projects, but here are a few who prove them wrong

  • SANAA HAMRI, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2 (2008)

Having done videos for everyone from Prince and Lenny Kravitz to Jay-Z and Mariah Carey, Hamri knows her way around a camera. Making her feature film debut in 2006, directing Sanaa Lathan in Something New got the opportunity to direct an episode of ABC’s popular TV series, Desperate Housewives in 2007 before return back to film in a big way. The following year, the Moroccan-born filmmaker completed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, which grossed $44 million.

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