Black PR Wire Power Profiler on Nia DaCostan

Nia DaCosta is a noted director and screenwriter. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she wrote and directed the crime thriller film Little Woods (2019), winning the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also directed the horror film Candyman (2021). In August 2020, DaCosta was hired to direct The Marvels, becoming the youngest filmmaker to direct a Marvel film, beating the record set by Ryan Coogler. Though DaCosta originally wanted to be a writer, her first viewing of Apocalypse Now (1979) sparked her interest in filmmaking. This led DaCosta to research 1970s film, where she found inspiration in directors such as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola. Citing Scorsese as a top inspiration, DaCosta enrolled at his alma mater, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. There, she met Scorsese while working as a TV production assistant. In August 2020, it was revealed that DaCosta would be directing the upcoming Marvel Studios film The Marvels, the sequel to Captain Marvel (2019), after having initially approached them with a Fantastic Four/ X-Men crossover movie. It is currently scheduled to be released on February 17, 2023.