Rick Famuyiwa

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1973-06-18 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

USA

Rick Famuyiwa

Biography

Rick Famuyiwa (born June 18, 1973) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and television director. He is best known for the films The Wood(1999), Brown Sugar (2002), and Dope (2015), as well as for his work on the television series The Mandalorian, for which he directed six episodes and served as an executive producer for the third season. His films have been nominated for or won multiple awards, including in 2008, when he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for the film Talk To Me (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rick Famuyiwa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedi...

Production

2021

2021

2007

Talk to Me

as Screenplay

2010

2010

2002

Brown Sugar

as Director

2015

Dope

as Executive Producer

1999

The Wood

as Director

1999

The Wood

as Screenplay

2015

Dope

as Director

2015

Dope

as Writer

2016

Confirmation

as Director

2002

Brown Sugar

as Screenplay

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Sadé

as Producer

-

Sadé

as Director

2017

The Lost

as Executive Producer

2017

Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King

as Executive Producer

1996

Blacktop Lingo

as Director

1996

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48 Hours In Vegas

as Screenplay

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