Independent Spirit Awards host Hasan Minhaj arrives at the show in Santa Monica on Saturday. Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. “And if some of them show up at the Oscars, more power to them.” Gabrielle Union, nominated for best supporting performance in “The Inspection,” at the 2023 …
In writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s pungent, psychologically unnerving “Nanny,” the title describes a suffocating swirl of demanding job, racialized identity and terror trap for Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant and single mother trying to make a life for herself in New York. There’s no “The” in the title for a reason : In her elegantly unsettling portrait of an invisible woman straddling …
“Nanny” filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu in the Los Angeles Times photo studio at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. “How do you use your rage?” Both reminder and affirmation, this impactful question comes from writer, director and scholar Nikyatu Jusu’s feature debut, “Nanny,” in theaters Nov. 23 and on Prime Video Dec. 16. There is a warmth …
Premiering as part of the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, “Nanny” combines a domestic drama with elements of folklore and horror filmmaking to create an unsettling examination of work, privilege and perseverance. The film is the feature debut for Jusu, who was previously at the festival in 2019 with her short film “Suicide by Sunlight.” As …
