Nia DaCosta Biography

QUICK FACTS
Activities Director , Screenwriter
Nationality USA
Birth November 8, 1989 (New York)

BIOGRAPHY
Nia DaCosta always knew she wanted to be a writer, but it wasn’t until she saw Apocalypse (1979) that she became interested in film. Researching cinema from the 1970s, she found inspiration in directors such as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. Citing Scorsese as her primary inspiration, DaCosta enrolled at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she met him while working as a television production assistant. His Little Woods was one of 12 projects chosen for the 2015 Sundance Writer-Director Labs. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 and received the Nora Ephron Award for “excellence in storytelling by a female writer.” or director”. It was announced in late 2018 that DaCosta had been tapped to direct and co-write Candyman (2020), an upcoming direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name produced by Jordan Peele through Monkeypaw Productions.