Dee Rees

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks family and friendships in a search for sexual expression. (tiff.net)

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s. (imdb)

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war. (imdb)

A chronicled re-telling the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969. (imdb) (imdb)

A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel. (imdb)

During WWII, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside a bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle unrelenting flocks of German fighters. (imdb)