DaCosta, Nia

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October 29, 2025

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From horror to Ibsen's 'Hedda,' filmmaker Nia DaCosta pursues the genres she loves

DaCosta's latest film, Hedda, is personal, a project she wrote years ago and couldn't shake. In it, she reimagines Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman and transporting the action to a 1950s English manor.

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Nia DaCosta

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From horror to Ibsen's 'Hedda,' filmmaker Nia DaCosta pursues the genres she loves

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