Biography
Tina Gordon Chism is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. She studied drama at Duke Ellington School for Performing Arts. Chism began her career as an intern in the writing department of The Cosby Show before going on to write the films ATL and Drumline. Her directorial debut was the 2013 film Peeples, which she also co-wrote. In 2013, a new series she created, Crushed, was greenlit by HBO. Its pilot was picked up in 2016 by Hulu. In 2019, Chism co-wrote the scripts to the comedies ...
Complete Filmography

Praise This
2023
Director, Screenplay
When aspiring musical superstar Sam is forced to join her cousin's struggling, underdog praise team in the lead-up to a national championship competit...

Little
2019
Director, Screenplay
Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her be...

What Men Want
2019
Screenplay, Story
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.

Peeples
2013
Director, Screenplay
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their...

ATL
2006
Writer
As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and reso...

Drumline
2002
Screenplay
A talented street drummer from Harlem enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flound...

ATL 2: The Homecoming
N/A
Writer
As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and reso...