Tina Gordon Chism is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. She began her writing career writing the films ''
ATL'', and ''
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''. She made her directorial debut in the 2013 film ''
Peeples,'' which she also wrote''.'' In 2019, she co-wrote the scripts to the comedies ''
What Men Want
''What Men Want'' is a 2019 American romantic comedy film directed by Adam Shankman and starring Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Josh Brener, Erykah Badu, Richard Roundtree and Tracy Morgan. The film is a loose remake of the 2000 film ''What Wome ...
'' and ''
Little
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* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
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'', while directing the latter. She will write and direct the upcoming film, ''Praise This''. She has also acted as a consulting producer on ''
Good Girls''.
Chism studied drama at Duke Ellington School for Performing Arts. She was inspired by ''
The Cosby Show
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'' to tell stories of rich black families. In 2013,
HBO greenlit a new series created by Chism called ''Crushed''. In 2016, the pilot for ''Crushed'' was picked up by
Hulu.
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African-American screenwriters
African-American film directors
American women film directors
American women screenwriters
American film directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
African-American women writers
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