A. V. Rockwell is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Named one of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” she has been celebrated for addressing issues of race, identity, and systemic oppression with her distinctive voice. Rockwell’s debut feature film, A Thousand and One, written and directed for Focus Features, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Her other works, Feathers and Open City Mixtape, are now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus
1959
100 min
2
The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell
1972
103 min
3
Body and Soul
Oscar Micheaux
1925
94 min
4
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
5
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1966
122 min
6
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica
1948
89 min
7
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987
163 min
8
Z
Costa-Gavras
1969
122 min
9
Paris Is Burning
Jennie Livingston
1990
78 min
10
Pixote
Héctor Babenco
1980
127 min