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Rick Famuyiwa

Rick Famuyiwa

Director · Born June 18, 1973 · USA

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Biography

Rick Famuyiwa (born June 18, 1973) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and television director. He is best known for the films The Wood(1999), Brown Sugar (2002), and Dope (2015), as well as for his work on the television series The Mandalorian, for which he directed six episodes and served as an executive producer for the third season. His films have been nominated for or won multiple awards, including in 2008, when he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for the film Talk To Me (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rick Famuyiwa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed 12

2020s

  1. 2024

    Ugo: A Homecoming Story

    Director

  2. 2023
  3. 2022
  4. 2021

    We Will Be Monsters

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    The Wood

    Director

  2. 1996

    Blacktop Lingo

    Director

Wrote 8

2020s

  1. 2021

    We Will Be Monsters

    Writer

1990s

  1. 1999

    The Wood

    Screenplay

  2. 1996

    Blacktop Lingo

    Writer

Produced 4

Acted in 2

Appearances1