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SEVEN QUESTIONS WITH NIA DaCOSTA ’07
From left: Lakeya Graves ’07, Nia DaCosta ’07 and Angela Vigilante ’07 at the premiere of DaCosta’s film “Little Woods.”
Nia DaCosta ’07 is a screenwriter and director. Her breakout film, the western crime thriller “Little Woods,” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 and was released in April 2019. Her latest project, “Candyman,” is the “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 horror film of the same name. The film, released in October, was directed by DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 2017 directorial debut, “Get Out”; Win Rosenfeld; and DaCosta. The Masters School is grateful to Lakeya Graves ’07 for conducting this interview with DaCosta in March 2020.
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