Sanaa Hamri
Sanaa Hamri
(Tangier - Morocco)
Sanaa Hamri (Arabic: سناء حمري; born November 19, 1977) is a Moroccan-American film, television, and music video director. Hamri has directed music videos for musicians including Prince, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, and Sting. She is known for her 2010 film Just Wright and the 2008 movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, as well as for her music video for the Nicki Minaj song Super Bass. She made her directorial debut in 2006 with the Focus Features romantic comedy Something New. She has since directed the sequel to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Scholar Shelley Cobb has credited Hamri's work as "[offering] alternative representations of black women that productively engage with and even challenge usual stereotypes, even as they use and conform to mainstream cinematic conventions".