Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 10, 1982
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
Credits
70 titles
Terence Nance
Biography
Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982; Dallas, Texas) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician. He is best known for his directing debut "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" (2012), and as the creator of the avant-garde TV program "Random Acts of Flyness" (2018), which is produced by his production company MVMT and airs on HBO. Nance is in a relationship with Naima Ramos-Chapman. The two met while they interviewed him for Saint Heron, the creative agency owned by Solange Knowles. Nance was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned his MFA from New York University where he studied visual art. Nance's 2012 film "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" incorporates an earlier short film, animation and an original score. It premiered in the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier section in 2012 and was also screened as part of the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival in New York. Scholar Terri Francis has described it as "...an experimental film...that recreates the unspoken space amid friendship and relationships". Starring Terence Nance himself and the girl with whom he is caught up in this difficult dance, the film shifts between reconstruction and reimagining using both animation and live action. The film was also featured at a screening as part of the Afrofuturist Film Festival at the New School on 3 May 2015. In August 2018, Nance's TV series "Random Acts of Flyness" debuted on HBO. In September 2018, Nance was announced as the director of the sequel of Space Jam, produced by Ryan Coogler. On July 16, 2019, it was announced that Nance left the project because he and "the studio/producers had different takes on the creative vision for Space Jam: A New Legacy", though he retained both screenwriting and executive producing credits. Nance also composes and performs music under the alias "Terence Etc.", composing some of the music for his "Random Acts of Flyness" series and releasing his debut EP "Things I Never Had" in January 2020. His debut full-length album "V O R T E X" was released on August 19, 2022 under the Brainfeeder label.
Known For
Filmography
Downbeat
Carter
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
Self
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
Director
The Young Wife
Music
Master
Executive Producer
Out / Side of Time
Executive Producer
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Executive Producer
Judas and the Black Messiah
Main Title Designer
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
Executive Producer
18 Black Girls and Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $9 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $8 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $7 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Steve
Executive Producer
Guisado on Sunset
Pier Kids
Executive Producer
Solange: When I Get Home
Director
Selah and the Spades
Songs
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Story
Suicide by Sunlight
Executive Producer
Piu Piu
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
The Burial of Kojo
Producer
Madeline's Madeline
Thanks
Random Acts of Flyness
Terence
White People Won't Save You
Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $6 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
The Paris Project
Lost & Found
Stumped
Thanks
The Show About the Show
Tony
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $5 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
Director
Lost & Found
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
Director
The Wreck Itself
Ryann Holmes
Executive Producer
They Charge for the Sun
Screenplay
Univitellin
Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $4 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
Women Who Kill
Darren
And Nothing Happened
Director of Photography
The Show About the Show
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Director
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $2 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
Director
The Dig - You And I and You
Editor
The Triptych
Director
House Date
Thanks
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
Director