Creative Powerhouse Regina King Covers WSJ Magazine December/January 20.21

Creative Powerhouse Regina King Covers WSJ Magazine December/January 20.21

The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere on September 7, 2020 of Regina King’s ‘One Night in Miami’. The honor was a rarity for a black woman director.

The Martinique director Euzhan Palcy won the Silver Lion at the Venice festival in 1983 for ‘Sugar Cane Alley’. The recognition didn’t send her career into overdrive, Palcy told The Guardian in a 2019 interview. Hollywood considered her films to be “too black”.

The first US film directed by an African-American woman to be released theatrically was Julie Dash’s ‘Daughters of the Dust’ in 1991. Dash’s film, which was written, directed and produced by the artist, was featured at Sundance.

‘The Rise of Regina King’

The full force of Regina King “meets the moment’ as the December/January cover story for WSJ Magazine. King is interviewed by Clover Hope in a fashion story styled by fashion editor Alexander Fisher. Photographer Alexandra Leese captures Regina King in rich-luxury looks from Alexander McQueen, Brandon Maxwell, Max Mara, Oscar de la Renta and more. See the fashion credits at WSJ.