Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford (born February 25, 1981) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter.
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Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.