Happy International Women’s Day to all of the incrus Content, including our clients,Happy International Women’s Day to all of the incredible and inspiring women of Anonymous Content, including our clients, colleagues and friends! Today, we are proud to spotlight the women of our commercial directing roster and their changemaking work. Read on for more about each of these women and to view their reels.Happy International Women’s Day to all of the incredible and inspiring
is an Academy Award-nominated writer who made her commercial directing debut in 2018 with two Oscars spots: The 60-second short film The Box for Walmart and the star-studded spot “Make It Yours” for Samsung, in which Rees also cameoed. On the same night, Rees made awards history with her feature drama Mudbound, whose four Academy Award nominations included Best Adapted Screenplay (for co-writers Rees and Virgil Williams), making her the first African American Woman ever to be nominated for Writing.An alumna of New York University’s graduate film program and a 2008 Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow, Rees’s first feature Pariah premiered at Sundance in 2011 and won Excellence in Cinematography Award for the festival’s U.S. Dramatic competition. Pariah went on to be honored with the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards; the Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough Director; and Outstanding Film –Limited Release at the GLAAD Media Awards. Rees’s other work includes HBO film Bessie about the life of singer Bessie Smith, which won four Primetime Emmys, including the award for Outstanding Television Movie. She has also written and directed TV episodes for Fox’s smash-hit “Empire” and ABC’s miniseries “When We Rise,” about the history of the modern gay rights movement.
Rees most recently directed two episodes of the AppleTV+ series “Masters of the Air”, one which she also co-wrote; as well as executive produced Hulu’s eight-part series adaptation of Alexis Schaitkin’s psychological drama novel Saint X, also directing an episode.
