Britt Banks is an award-winning director and screenwriter 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.

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Britt is a:

• Ryan Murphy Productions Half-Initiative Director Shadow (2024)

• Winner of The Future of Film is Female pre-production grant (2024)

• Winner of the Kickstarter x Tubi: Filmstream Collective Fund grant (2025)

• Almanack Screenwriter Sessions Alumna (2025)

• Winner of the Black Life Film Festival grant (2020)

 

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A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Britt has extensive experience in network and studio physical production, including work as a digital imaging technician on the 2022 Sundance-premiering feature film, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. 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 and is an official selection of the prestigious Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. Her short film Thicke, a meditation on the aftermath of police brutality, earned multiple awards and grants, while her award-winning short film Blue Laces was acquired by Magic Johnson’s Aspire TV.

 

With each project, Britt continues to carve out space for stories that are personal, political, and unapologetically human.