Tina Mabry
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| Born | February 9, 1978 Tupelo, Mississippi, United States |
| Occupations | Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
Tina Mabry (born February 9, 1978) is an American film director and screenwriter from Tupelo, Mississippi. Following the release of her first feature film Mississippi Damned (2009),[1] she was named one of '25 New Faces of Indie Film' by Filmmaker magazine and among the 'Top Forty Under 40' by The Advocate.[2][3][4][5] Mabry was named a James Baldwin Fellow in Media by United States Artists.[citation needed]
Tina Mabry was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1978.[2] After seeing Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry and Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball while an undergrad at the University of Mississippi, she determined she had to go into film and moved to Los Angeles.[6] She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Cinema and Television from the University of Southern California.
