Neema Barnette is a commercially successful director of films and TV series, including Civil Brand, Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day, Queen Sugar and Harlem. The winner of both a Peabody and an Emmy, Barnette is the first African-American woman sitcom director (a 1986 episode of What’s Happening Now) and the first African-American woman to sign a three-picture deal with Sony.
Films
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
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(2012)
The Ames family seems to have a perfect life until a daughter is kidnapped and old secrets come to light.
Super Sweet 16: The Movie
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(2007)
Jacquie and Sara were best friends forever. They even shared the same birthday. This year, however, after a huge falling out the teens wind up competing for the best party ever.
All You've Got
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(2006)
Three friends' love for volleyball is tested when their school burns to the ground and they are forced to join a rival school in order to win the national championship.
Civil Brand
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(2002)
Things are tough at Whitehead Correctional Institute, a notorious women's prison. The inmates are under the supervision of an abusive warden who forces them to endure hours of hard labor, from which he profits. Eventually, the women band together and reach out to a part-time prison guard, a law student, who helps them fight for reform.
