Black Excellence: RaMell Ross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross
RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker, photographer, academic, and writer best known for his 2018 documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening and the 2024 film adaptation of the novel The Nickel Boys (2019), the latter of which he directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes, for which he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director.[1][2][3]
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/nx-s1-5217676/nickel-boys-movie-review
‘Nickel Boys’ establishes a new way of seeing Black characters on screen