Flavorwire: Gina Prince-Bythewood fandom requires a bit of patience. The filmmaker burst onto the scene in 2000 with two exemplary films: the HBO drama Disappearing Acts and the indie sports romance Love and Basketball. Both were critically acclaimed, and the latter remains a fan favorite, but it took eight years for Prince-Bythewood to make her follow-up (2008’s The Secret Life of Bees) and another six after that to make her latest film, Beyond the Lights, a sweet and earnest love story set in the world of R&B and hip hop. “Where ya been?” I asked Prince-Bythewood in a recent phone interview, and she responded first with a laugh, and then with a story of frustration. “I never thought the film would take this long to get set up,” she says. “This was an incredible fight, to get this film made.”
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