Nia DaCosta is a 30-year-old Brooklyn native, who was mainly raised in Harlem. She decided she wanted to be a filmmaker after watching Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in her high school English class, per IndieWire. The writer/director followed a blackhole of ‘70s movies before going to the same film school as Martin Scorsese, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. DaCosta’s script for Little Woods was chosen by her program to be part of a Directors Lab program put on for Sundance. If you really want to get to know the upcoming helmer of Carol Danvers’ next solo adventure, stick with us as we dive into Little Woods:
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