Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 13, 1969
Place of Birth
Lambeth, London, England, UK
Credits
17 titles
Amma Asante
Biography
Amma Asante MBE (born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, who was born in London to parents from Ghana. Her love for the film industry started when she received her first role in BBC's children's television drama series Grange Hill. Asante wrote and produced the 1998 BBC Two series Brothers and Sisters, starring David Oyelowo. She was a childhood friend of model Naomi Campbell, whom she met when they were seven years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amma Asante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Smillas Gespür für Schnee
Co-Executive Producer
Art That Made Us
Self - Writer & Director
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Self
Drunk history: Black Stories
Narrator
Mrs. America
Director
Where Hands Touch
Director
The Handmaid's Tale
Director
A United Kingdom
Director
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Belle
Director
A Way of Life
Director
The Best of Friends
The Black Girl in Search of God
Birds of a Feather
Sydnee
Grange Hill
Cheryl Webb
The South Bank Show
Billion Dollar Spy
Director
London, I Love You
Director