Tina Mabry (born February 9, 1978) is an American film director and screenwriter from Tupelo, Mississippi.
[1] After seeing Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry and Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball while an undergrad at the University of Mississippi, she determined she had to go into film and moved to Los Angeles.
Mabry made her feature film directing debut in 2009 with Mississippi Damned, which she also wrote and acknowledges draws from aspects of her own life.
Mabry has written and directed two episodes of FutureStates produced by ITVS, including Ant starring Guillermo Díaz.
In 2015, Mabry was hired as a producer, writer, and director on the OWN series Queen Sugar, created by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey.