Nia DaCosta

Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence when she made her feature-length debut as a writer and director with the crime thriller film ''Little Woods'' (2018), winning the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival.

After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series ''Top Boy'' in 2019, DaCosta became the first black female director to debut at No. 1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend opening of the horror film ''Candyman'' (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film when she directed ''The Marvels'' (2023), which became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman but was simultaneously a box-office bomb. Provided by Wikipedia