Dee Rees


Biography

Life Events

2005

Directed first short film "Orange Bow"

2006

Wrote the first draft of "Pariah" in longhand, while she was attending NYU and interning for the script supervisor on Spike Lee's "Inside Man" (2006)

2007

Wrote and directed the short film "Pariah," about a lesbian teenager living in Brooklyn (Adepero Oduye), film was featured at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

2008

Made her first full-length film "Eventual Salvation"

2011

Wrote and directed the feature length adaptation of "Pariah"; Oduye reprised lead role opposite Kim Wayans and Aasha Davis

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