George Tillman Jr.
George Tillman Jr. ( born January 26, 1969 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Tillman studied at Columbia College Chicago film and video. The study, he finished with a degree in 1991. Together with Robert Teitel, he founded the film production company menagerie film. He began his career as a writer of short film released in 1992 Paula. The first director, he directed the 1995 released movie Scenes for the Soul, to which he also wrote the screenplay. He had produced for U.S. $ 150,000 to film and then sold it for $ 1,000,000 on to Savoy Pictures. With the resulting profit he financed his third film Soul Food, in 1996, inter alia, with Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox and Mekhi Phifer was filmed and appeared in 1997. Soulfood told the story of an African American family and contained autobiographical elements from the childhood of Tillman. The film received several awards, such as the Image Award in 1998 for Outstanding Motion Picture. He then worked on the published 2000 film Men of Honor with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro. The film, in which he was for the first time worked only as director, told the story of the first African American Navy diver.
From 2000 to 2008, his work was limited to the production of various film projects, such as Ice Cubes Barber Shop series. His next directing, he directed the film appeared in January 2009 Notorious BIG A biographical film about the 1997 murdered in Los Angeles rapper Notorious BIG
He is married to actress Marcia Wright, with whom he has a child.
Filmography (selection)
As a director,
As a producer,
- 2002: Barbershop
- 2004: Barbershop 2
- 2005: Beauty Shop
- 2005: Roll Bounce
- 2008: Nothing Like the Holidays