# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nia-dacosta
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:11:37.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nia-dacosta"
name: "Nia DaCosta"
slug: "nia-dacosta"
description: "Nia DaCosta is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence when she made her feature film debut with the crime drama film Little Woods (2018), which earned her a nomination for the American Independent Award for Best Feature Film at the Denver Film Festival and won the Nora Ephron Award at the Tribeca Film Festival."
tagline: "American director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nia_DaCosta_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_11.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1989-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           23.805752
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.niadacosta.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump