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Terence Nance
Dallas, Texas, USA
Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982; Dallas, Texas) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician. He is best known for his directing debut "An Oversimplificati…
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Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982; Dallas, Texas) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician. He is best known for his directing debut "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" (2012), and as the creator of the avant-garde TV program "Random Acts of Flyness" (2018), which is produced by his production company MVMT and airs on HBO. Nance is in a relationship with Naima Ramos-Chapman. The two met while they interviewed him for Saint Heron, the creative agency owned by Solange Knowles. Nance was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned his MFA from New York University where he studied visual art. Nance's 2012 film "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" incorporates an earlier short film, animation and an original score. It premiered in the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier section in 2012 and was also screened as part of the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival in New York. Scholar Terri Francis has described it as "...an experimental film...that recreates the unspoken space amid friendship and relationships". Starring Terence Nance himself and the girl with whom he is caught up in this difficult dance, the film shifts between reconstruction and reimagining using both animation and live action. The film was also featured at a screening as part of the Afrofuturist Film Festival at the New School on 3 May 2015. In August 2018, Nance's TV series "Random Acts of Flyness" debuted on HBO. In September 2018, Nance was announced as the director of the sequel of Space Jam, produced by Ryan Coogler. On July 16, 2019, it was announced that Nance left the project because he and "the studio/producers had different takes on the creative vision for Space Jam: A New Legacy", though he retained both screenwriting and executive producing credits. Nance also composes and performs music under the alias "Terence Etc.", composing some of the music for his "Random Acts of Flyness" series and releasing his debut EP "Things I Never Had" in January 2020. His debut full-length album "V O R T E X" was released on August 19, 2022 under the Brainfeeder label.
Filmography
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2026
Downbeat
Movie Carter
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2025
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
TV show Self
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2023
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
Movie Director
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2023
The Young Wife
Movie Music
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2022
Master
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Out / Side of Time
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Movie Main Title Designer
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2021
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
Movie Executive Producer
- 2020
- 2020
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2020
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Movie Director
- 2019
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2019
Steve
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Guisado on Sunset
Movie
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2019
Pier Kids
Movie Executive Producer
More credits
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2019
Solange: When I Get Home
Movie Director
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2019
Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody
Movie Director
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2019
Selah and the Spades
Movie Songs
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2019
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Movie Story
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2019
Suicide by Sunlight
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Piu Piu
Movie
- 2018
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2018
The Burial of Kojo
Movie Producer
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2018
Madeline's Madeline
Movie Thanks
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2018
Random Acts of Flyness
TV show Terence
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2018
White People Won't Save You
Movie Director
- 2017
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2017
The Paris Project
Movie
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2017
Lost & Found
TV show
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2017
Stumped
Movie Thanks
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2017
The Show About the Show
Movie Tony
- 2017
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2017
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
Movie Director
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2017
Lost & Found
Movie
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2017
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
Movie Director
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2017
The Wreck Itself
Movie
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2016
Ryann Holmes
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
They Charge for the Sun
Movie Screenplay
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2016
Univitellin
Movie Director
