Janicza Bravo

Director

February 25, 1981 (45 years)

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford (born February 25, 1981) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janicza Bravo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

8.1

The Bear

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

7.6

In Treatment

The intimate confines of psychotherapy sessions are seen from the perspective of a therapist and individual patients.

7.5

Poker Face

Follow Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, as she hits the road and, at every stop, encounters a new cast of characters and crimes she can't help but solve.

8.0

Atlanta

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

7.6

Them

A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

6.4

Divorce

A middle-aged couple experience the pain, the relief and the trials and tribulations of a divorce in this dry, witty comedy.

7.3

Mrs. America

The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”

5.9

Dear White People

Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as "post-racial" as it thinks.

5.7

Too Much

When a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London hoping for a love story, she falls for an indie musician who's anything but the typical romantic hero.

6.3

Forever

June and Oscar live a comfortable but very predictable wedded life when suddenly they find themselves in a completely unexpected situation, raising questions about love and marriage.

6.4

Kindred

A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.

4.3

The Listeners

An English teacher begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear.

6.5

Here and Now

A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

6.2

Zola

A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.

4.4

Lemon

Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to leave him, and his own family singles him out as a constant disappointment. Even as he takes a chance on new romance, he struggles to define his place in a world that has seemingly turned against him.

6.4

House Comes with a Bird

It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dynamics of power in race, gender and class. While it’s the macaw that seems ostensibly and literally caged, Bravo’s drama of manners suggests that every single one of us may not be quite as uncaged as we assume.

4.7

Woman in Deep

A woman calls a suicide prevention hotline and is put on hold.

5.0

Pauline Alone

A woman tries to connect with people she's never met.

N/A

Hard World for Small Things

The circumstances and lives affected by a single tragedy in Los Angeles.

6.2

Gregory Go Boom

A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life on the outside is not like he had imagined it.