14 Questions With ‘A Thousand and One’ Writer-Director A.V. Rockwell (Exclusive Video)
thewrap.comA.V. Rockwell — the writer and director of her hit feature film debut “A Thousand and One,” which is continuing to run up numbers at the box office in addition to earning a 96% from Rotten Tomatoes.
Rockwell’s elegant, poetically gritty and soulful artistry was noticed prior to this moment, though. In 2019, she was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and took home the U.S.
Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her short film, “Feathers.” This year she’s seen critical and commercial success for “A Thousand and One.”She’s been writing and directing ever since her adolescence, leading school plays, though she she says she never saw herself as a writer until she started working on “A Thousand and One.” Like her fave filmmakers Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese, Rockwell is a born and raised New Yorker — a Jamaica Queens New Yorker to be exact.
Some of her hometown experiences and coming of age journey were mirrored in her Teyana Taylor-led and Lena Waithe-produced film, “A Thousand and One.” It’s just the beginning for Rockwell.
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