When the Oprah Winfrey Network series “Queen Sugar” debuted in 2016, Cierra Glaude worked as a first team production assistant, an early riser who is responsible for keeping track of the actors on setNEW YORK -- When the Oprah Winfrey Network series “Queen Sugar” debuted in 2016, Cierra Glaude worked as a first team production assistant, an early riser who is responsible for keeping track of the actors on set. “I’ll just be walking around the house like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I find a mirror and go, ‘You’re a director,’” Glaude said in an interview with The Associated Press. During the first season, DuVernay encouraged Glaude to shoot and produce her own material so she could one day direct on her set. ...She was the key PA on ‘Queen Sugar' for a long time. Take “Queen Sugar,” for instance, where DuVernay has created a series where every episode is directed by a woman.

Source: ABC News February 16, 2021 18:00 UTC