Who Is Nia DaCosta? 8 Things To Know About The Captain Marvel 2 Director

Nia DaCosta is a 31 year old American film director and screenwriter. Her first film was Little Woods (2018). It is a crime thriller that won the Nora Emphron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is also the director of Candyman, an upcoming horror movie, likely to release in 2021. Now DaCosta is the director of the sequel to Captain Marvel. She has replaced Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the directors of Captain Marvel, 2019. Brie Larson, also known as Carol Denvers will once again play the lead role in the film.

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Here are 8 facts about Nia DaCosta you should know:

1. Nia DaCosta is the fourth woman and the first black woman to have a Marvel Studios movie to her name. She also happens to be the youngest filmmaker of the Marvel series. The movie will release on July 8, 2022.
2. It was her childhood dream to become a writer. However, she became interested in filmmaking after watching the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
3. The director completed her schooling from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She started her career as a TV production assistant.
4. Her upcoming movie Candyman is a “spiritual sequel” to the original version. The director of Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele has penned it down. The film releases in theatres on Aug 27, 2021.
5. DaCosta is also a well known name in the short films industry. She is the writer and director of the 2009 short film The Black Girl Dies Last. Here, we can see her as an actor too. Nia is also the director, producer and editor of Night and Day, a 2013 short film. She wrote the short films Celeste and Livelihood, both of which released in 2014.
6. Nia DaCosta is also the director of  two episodes of Top Boy, the British crime drama starring Kano and Ashley Walters.
7. In 2018, she spoke to Jezebel on the issues of gender and race. She said, "I think there are a lot of narratives that get imposed on female filmmakers and also filmmakers of colour. I know that I personally get asked 'oh do you want to read this script about this black person or this script about oppression of black people?"
8. While talking to The National, she said, "It’s very difficult for a woman to just pop up in the studio system. But I think the same systemic issues that affect how much work women get to make is also inside the indie space. While there are more women working, we definitely get less money", thus focusing on the inequality women face in the industry.