{"id":83466,"date":"2018-06-06T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/06\/06\/owns-queen-sugar-announces-remaining-all-female-directing-team-for-season-3\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:45:24","slug":"owns-queen-sugar-announces-remaining-all-female-directing-team-for-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/owns-queen-sugar-announces-remaining-all-female-directing-team-for-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"OWN&#8217;s Queen Sugar Announces Remaining All-Female Directing Team For Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OWN&#8217;s Queen Sugar Announces Remaining All-Female Directing Team For Season 3<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>June 6, 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Queen-Sugar-Season-3-Directing-Team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-110881\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 289 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Queen-Sugar-Season-3-Directing-Team-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cQueen Sugar,\u201d<\/strong> the critically acclaimed OWN drama series from Academy award-nominated filmmaker <strong>Ava DuVernay<\/strong> (\u201cWrinkle in Time,\u201d \u201c13th,\u201d \u201cSelma\u201d), executive producer <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> and Warner Horizon Scripted Television, announced today the remaining directors to complete the season three all-female directorial line-up to include first time television directors <strong>Nijla Mu\u2019min, Christina Choe, Ayoka Chenzira<\/strong> and <strong>Rachel Raimist,<\/strong> along with the return of \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d showrunner<strong> Kat Candler<\/strong>. These directors join the previously announced line-up including \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d producing director <strong>DeMane Davis, Patricia Cardoso, Shaz Bennett, Maria Govan<\/strong> and <strong>Lauren Wolkstein<\/strong>. Continuing the creative initiative established in the show\u2019s first season by series creator and executive producer DuVernay to hire all female directorial teams, the series has employed 26 female directors to date. <strong>The series airs Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on OWN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the following actors join the cast in recurring roles, with all three characters appearing as part of an upcoming storyline which examines the vibrant Vietnamese community of New Orleans within the ongoing storylines centered on an African-American family in the new south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Queen-Sugar-Season-3-Vivien-Ngo-Tony-Aidan-Vo-Elyse-Dinh-McCrillis-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-110882\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 289 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Queen-Sugar-Season-3-Vivien-Ngo-Tony-Aidan-Vo-Elyse-Dinh-McCrillis--289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vivien Ngo<\/strong> (\u201cShameless\u201d) has been cast in the role of Trinh Phan. Trinh has recently returned home to work in the office at her parents&#8217; seafood plant. Her time in New Orleans takes an unexpected turn when she befriends one of the local residents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Aidan Vo<\/strong> (\u201cAlternatino\u201d) has been cast as Khanh Phan, Trinh\u2019s younger brother. He&#8217;s been raised by his doting sister in his close-knit Vietnamese family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elyse Dinh McCrillis<\/strong> (\u201cSpider-Man 2\u201d) has been cast as Mrs. Phan, Trinh and Khanh\u2019s good-hearted mother who can surely use her daughter&#8217;s business skills to get her and Mr. Phan&#8217;s office organized and up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d Season Three Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nijla-Mu\u2019min-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-110883\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nijla-Mu\u2019min-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Nijla Mu\u2019min \u2013 Nijla Mu&#8217;min is a writer and filmmaker named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2017. Her short films have screened at festivals and venues across the country. In 2014, she was selected for the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, and she was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Urbanworld Film Festival, for her script \u201cNoor.\u201d Mu\u2019min\u2019s debut feature film, \u201cJinn,\u201d premiered in narrative competition at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival, where she won the Special Jury Recognition Award for screenwriting. Her short film \u201cDream\u201d was acquired by Issa Rae Productions for online streaming in 2017 and has amassed over 70,000 views to date. She is a 2013 dual-degree graduate of CalArts MFA Film Directing and Writing Programs. \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d marks her directorial debut for television.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Christina-Choe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-110886\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 269 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Christina-Choe-2-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Christina Choe: Christina Choe&#8217;s debut feature \u201cNancy\u201d recently premiered at Sundance in the 2018 US Dramatic Competition, where it won the Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award and releases in theatres June 8. Choe&#8217;s docu-series \u201cWelcome to the DPRK\u201d, a personal portrait of North Korea, was also recently acquired and released by First Look Media. Her short films, \u201cI am John Wayne,\u201d won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, with \u201cThe Queen\u201d and \u201cFlow\u201d screening at Telluride, SXSW, Aspen, among many others. Additional honors include a year-long Directing Fellowship with HBO and a Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Fellowship awarded at the Independent Spirit Awards. \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d marks her directorial debut for television.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ayoka-Chenzira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-full wp-image-110884\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ayoka-Chenzira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Ayoka Chenzira: Ayoka Chenzira is an award-winning artist and recognized pioneer in Black independent cinema. She is a teaching artist at Spelman College and a graduate of New York University (B.F.A. Film), Columbia University\/Teachers College (M.A. Education) and is the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in digital media from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her distinctive body of work spans fiction, documentary, animation, performance, experimental narratives, and interactive cinema. Her film work includes \u201cAlma\u2019s Rainbow,\u201d one of the first 35mm independent films by an African American woman, along with \u201cHair Piece: a film for nappyheaded people,\u201d \u201cZajota and the Boogie Spirit,\u201d \u201cMy Own TV\u201d and HERadventure.\u201d \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d marks her directorial debut for television.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rachel-Raimist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-110885\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 200'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rachel-Raimist-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Rachel Raimist: Rachel Raimist is best known as the award-winning director of \u201cNobody Knows My Name,\u201d the first film about women in hip-hop. Her work centers on stories of women, music and youth culture, and her work has screened at numerous international film festivals including SXSW, Women in the Director\u2019s Chair and Slamdance. Raimist holds a B.A. and a M.F.A. in directing from the UCLA Film School, and a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota where The Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center was named in her honor in 2009. Currently she is a tenured professor of media production at the University of Alabama. \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d marks her directorial debut for television.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kat-Candler-Queen-Sugar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-110887\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kat-Candler-Queen-Sugar-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Kat Candler: Kat Candler returns to season three of \u201cQueen Sugar\u201d as showrunner. Her award-winning film \u201cHellion\u201d played in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and she was a 2015 Sundance Institute Women\u2019s Initiative Fellow. She is also a two-time grant recipient of the San Francisco Film Society\/Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Her television work includes \u201cBeing Mary Jane\u201d \u201c13 Reasons Why\u201d and \u201c12 Monkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueen Sugar\u201d is produced for OWN by Warner Horizon Scripted Television. The executive producers are Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey, Kat Candler and Paul Garnes. The series is based on the book by Natalie Baszile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueen Sugar\u201d was named Television Show of the Year from both American Black Film Festival (ABFF Honors) and African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) for the second consecutive year and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Drama Series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Queen-Sugar-Season-3-Key-Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-110157\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 203 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Queen-Sugar-Season-3-Key-Art-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the series\u2019 third season, the contemporary drama returns as the Bordelons find themselves continuing their fight to save their family farm and father\u2019s legacy as they navigate their own personal journeys. They soon find that their fight extends beyond their close-knit family, but also to the community. Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) remains in the thick of the trials and tribulations in both her personal and professional life as she continues to battle the Landry family while also trying to ensure Micah\u2019s (Nicholas Ashe) safety and future. Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) is still reeling from learning from Darla (Bianca Lawson) that he might not be the biological father of his son, Blue (Ethan Hutchison), and attempts to push forward as the new cane season begins. A new and unexpected love in the form of an old friend comes into Nova\u2019s (Rutina Wesley) life and challenges her long-held notions of relationships while also offering her something she didn\u2019t think she could ever have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Queen-Sugar-cast-at-ABFF-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-99894\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 200'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Queen-Sugar-cast-at-ABFF-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expansive cast also includes Tina Lifford as the siblings\u2019 free-spirited Aunt Violet; Omar J. Dorsey as Violet\u2019s much younger fianc\u00e9 Hollywood Desonier; Dondr\u00e9 T. Whitfield as trusted Bordelon family friend Remy Newell and Henry G. Sanders plays Prosper Denton, a farmer and longtime friend of the late Bordelon family patriarch, Ernest. Additionally, recurring guest star Timon Kyle Durrett portrays Charley\u2019s estranged husband and pro basketball player Davis West.<\/p>\n<p>The season three premiere (5\/29\/18) delivered over two million viewers and ranked as Tuesday night\u2019s #1 cable telecast in OWN\u2019s target demographic of women 25-54 (L+3). The acclaimed drama was also the night\u2019s #1 telecast across all of broadcast and cable for African-American women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OWN&#8217;s Queen Sugar Announces Remaining All-Female Directing Team For Season 3Posted by Wilson Morales June 6, 2018 \u201cQueen Sugar,\u201d the critically acclaimed OWN drama series from Academy award-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay (\u201cWrinkle in Time,\u201d \u201c13th,\u201d \u201cSelma\u201d), executive producer Oprah Winfrey and Warner Horizon Scripted Television, announced today the remaining directors to complete the season three [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" 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