Gina Prince-Bythewood is a prolific filmmaker whose work includes the modern-day classics Love and Basketball, Disappearing Acts, and Beyond the Lights. She also served as the showrunner of Shots Fired, the Fox limited series about the aftermath of a police-involved shooting, starring Sanaa Lathan. In 2020, Prince-Bythewood helmed The Old Guard, an action movie about soldiers with unique powers starring Kiki Layne and Charlize Theron. It marks the first comic book movie adaptation directed by a Black woman. In 2022, she directed the blockbuster The Woman King, set in the 19th century about the women warriors from the Dahomey tribe.