Directing
Terence Nance
EN, AK, FR cinema · 66 credits
Born
10 February 1982 (age 44)
Birthplace
Dallas, Texas, USA
Also known as Terence Etc. · Terence Etc · Ummah Chroma
Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982; Dallas, Texas) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician. He is best known for his directing debut "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" (2012), and as the creator of the avant-garde TV program "Random Acts of Flyness" (2018), which is produced by his production company MVMT and airs on HBO. Nance is in a relationship with Naima Ramos-Chapman. The two met while they interviewed him for Saint Heron, the creative agency owned by Solange Knowles. Nance was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned his MFA from New York University where he studied visual art. Nance's 2012 film "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" incorporates an earlier short film, animation and an original score. 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. 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. The film was also featured at a screening as part of the Afrofuturist Film Festival at the New School on 3 May 2015. 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. 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", though he retained both screenwriting and executive producing credits. 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" was released on August 19, 2022 under the Brainfeeder label.
Known for
Filmography
Downbeat
as Carter
The Young Wife
Music, Original Music Composer
Master
Executive Producer
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Executive Producer, Story, Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Main Title Designer
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
Executive Producer
Out / Side of Time
2021
Out / Side of Time
Executive Producer
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Director, Writer
Guisado on Sunset
Actor, Editor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Pier Kids
Executive Producer
Steve
Executive Producer
Selah and the Spades
Songs, Executive Producer
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Director, Story, Editor, Sound Designer
Suicide by Sunlight
Executive Producer
Piu Piu
Actor, Producer, Executive Producer
The Burial of Kojo
Associate Producer, Producer
The Paris Project
Actor, Executive Producer
Women Who Kill
as Darren
Ryann Holmes
Executive Producer
They Charge for the Sun
Screenplay, Director
Univitellin
Writer, Director, Producer
And Nothing Happened
Executive Producer, Director of Photography
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Director, Producer
The Triptych
Director
The Dig - You And I and You
Director, Writer, Editor
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
Director, Writer
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
Director, Writer
Evolution of a Criminal
Title Designer
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
Director, Writer
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
as Christopher Bosh / Star Prince Akilobataar
Frenel
Director, Writer
Sweet Honey Chile'
Title Designer
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Animation, Producer, Editor
Sleep
Graphic Designer
Native Sun
Director, Producer
The Feeling You Get
2011
The Feeling You Get
Production Design
How Would You Feel?
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer, Editor
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
Director, Screenplay, Editor
No Ward
Director, Producer, Editor, Publicist, Director of Photography
African Booty Scratcher
as Lance, Music