Dee Rees

Dee Rees is an American screenwriter and director. Rees has written and directed several short films, as well as the full-length feature film Pariah. In 2012, she received the Emerging Filmmaker Award from the Athena Film Festival, a celebration of women and leadership, at Barnard College in New York City.
Early life
Rees is from Nashville, Tennessee. She received an MBA in at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida in Business Administration. After working at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio marketing panty liners she was laid off and made the move to New York City. She began working at Schering Plough marketing Dr. Scholls. At a commercial shoot, she realized she was interested in film, and enrolled in New York University's graduate film program. Rees says that she made the move because "Screenwriting is a way of actually seeing your writing come to life, your work done, so I quit my job and went to film school."
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