Rachel Bass is a film director based in Chicago.  She has won two Director’s Guild of America awards including  Best African-American Film in the West Region for her short Thicker than Water. Her short film Advent (2024) was Oscar long-listed after it claimed the Jury Prize at the Pan African Film & Arts Festival in 2025.

 

Rachel earned her MFA in Directing from Chapman University and her BA in Black Studies from Amherst College.  She has taught Directing and Visual Storytelling at Chapman University, London's Solaris International Film School, and currently resides as a professor of film production at DePaul University.

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