Britt Banks is an award-winning director devoted to amplifying the voices of women and girls of color. Her work weaves bold storytelling with emotional precision, often centered on urgent issues within the Black community, such as kinship care and police brutality. Britt is a cohort of Ryan Murphy Productions’ Half-Initiative Director Shadowing Program, a recipient of The Future of Film is Female pre-production grant, and a winner of the Black Life Film Festival grant. Her films have screened at the Directors Guild of America and Academy-Qualifying Film Festivals around the world.

Her latest short, We Are Not Okay, premiered at MoMA in New York and has since screened at AGBO Studios and AMC Networks in Los Angeles. Thicke, an exploration of the aftermath of police brutality, earned multiple awards and grants, while Blue Laces was acquired by Magic Johnson’s Aspire TV and screened both internationally and at the DGA.