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Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician from Dallas, Texas.[1][2] He is best known for his directing debut An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, and as the creator of the avant-garde TV "program" Random Acts of Flyness, which is produced by his production company MVMT and airs on HBO.

Terence Nance
Born	(1982-02-10) February 10, 1982 (age 40) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Filmmaker writer director actor musician
Years active	2007–present

Early life

Nance was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned his MFA from New York University where he studied visual art.[3]

Career

Nance's 2012 film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty incorporates an earlier short film, animation and an original score.[4] 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.[5] 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."[6] The film was also featured at a screening as part of the Afrofuturist Film Festival at the New School on 3 May 2015.[7]

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.[8] 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[9]", though he retained both screenwriting and executive producing credits.[10]

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 is expected to be released in August 2022 under the Brainfeeder label.[11]

Personal life

Nance is in a relationship with Naima Ramos-Chapman. The two met while she interviewed him for Saint Heron, the creative agency owned by Solange Knowles.[12][13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Credited as				Role	Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer	Actor
2009	No Ward	Yes		Yes			Documentary
2012	An Oversimplification of Her Beauty	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself	Feature directorial debut Also editor and animator
2016	Women Who Kill				Yes	Darren
2018	The Burial of Kojo			Yes
2021	Space Jam: A New Legacy		Yes	Executive			Replaced as director by Malcolm D. Lee

Short films

Year	Title	Credited as				Role	Notes	Ref.
		Director	Writer	Producer	Actor
2010	How Would You Feel?	Yes	Yes	Yes
2011	Native Sun	Yes		Yes
2015	Swimming in Your Skin Again	Yes		Yes
2016	Univitellin	Yes	Yes	Yes
	They Charge for the Sun	Yes	Yes
2017	The Paris Project			Co-producer	Yes	Michael Wynton
2018	Piu Piu			Executive	Yes	Himself
2018	Nowhere, Nobody	Yes	Yes				Co-directed and co-written with Naima Ramos-Chapman	[14]

Television

Year	Title	Credited as				Role	Notes
		Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Actor
2015–17	The Show About the Show				Yes	Tony
2017	Lost & Found				Yes	Jonathan
2018–present	Random Acts of Flyness	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself	Also creator, composer and editor

Discography

Studio albums

• V O R T E X (2022)

EPs

• Things I Never Had (2020)

Accolades

Year	Ceremony	Category	Result
2014	Guggenheim Fellowship	Creative Arts	Recipient

References

External links

• Official website
• Terence Nance at IMDb

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