*Screenwriter Dee Rees has directed the films “Pariah,” “Bessie,” and “Mudbound,” and now she’s reportedly teaming with “Get Out” producer Jason Blum for a black lesbian horror film. Emmy-award ...

Like a perfectly timed high note in a torch song, Bessie doesn't tiptoe into queerness as filmmaker Dee Rees gives us a love letter to Black, bisexual brilliance. After all, when history forgets our ...

Mudbound is the story of two men -- one white, one black -- who return home after World War II to face very different challenges despite their shared experiences. It portrays the realities of the ...

Mudbound: (L-R) Director Dee Rees, actors Garrett Hedlund, Rob Morgan, Mary J. Blige, Carrey Mulligan, center, and Jason Mitchell, bottom Rees (“Pariah,” HBO’s “Bessie”) and Virgil Williams adapted ...

The four-time Emmy-award winning HBO film Bessie, directed by Dee Rees, depicts the life and times of songstress Bessie Smith, a.k.a., the Empress of the Blues. Starring Queen Latifah as the openly ...

Dee Rees is out here making movies that stick to your ribs. From Pariah to Bessie to her latest, Mudbound, which was released on Netflix Friday. It’s because of these amazing films that Rees was ...

Diandrea Rees (born February 7, 1977) is an American screenwriter and director. She is known for her feature films Pariah (2011), Bessie (2015), Mudbound (2017), and The Last Thing He Wanted (2020).

Television’s Shonda Rhimes is joining forces with writer-director Dee Rees for an FX series based on Isabel Wilkerson’s 2010 book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ...