Neema BarnetteFilmography

Super Sweet 16: The Movie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The direct-to-video comedy Super Sweet 16: The Movie concerns two best friends who share their birthdays. When they end up mad at each other, they engage in an outrageous battle to throw the most ostentatious 16th birthday party ever. This movie is based on the popular MTV reality program My Super Sweet 16 Read More

All You've Got

Crew: Director

Actors: Ciara, Faizon Love

Synopsis: Two Southern California volleyball teams determined to prove their superiority on the court find out that they're not as different as they previously thought after tragedy strikes close to home in director Neema Barnette's affectionate sports drama. The Madonnas and the Phantoms are two volleyball Read More

Miracle's Boys

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Nelson, Pooch Hall, Julito McCullum

Synopsis: Miracle's Boys tells the tale of African-American brothers who must survive many daily stresses by trusting, relying on, and loving each other. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Civil Brand

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: LisaRaye, Mos Def, N'Bushe Wright, Monica Calhoun, Da Brat

Synopsis: Television director Neema Barnette directs the forceful drama Civil Brand, based on a story by Preston A. Whitmore II. Shot with a micro-budget of 500,000 dollars, the film stars confrontational rap and hip-hop artists Mos Def, MC Lyte, and Da Brat. The story concerns a women's prison that Read More

Gilmore Girls: The Fundamental Things Apply

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lorelei (Lauren Graham) is none too thrilled to find out that her interior decorator was previously hired by Emily (Kelly Bishop). Luke (Scott Patterson) adjusts himself to the rules of the Gilmores' "movie night" (Casablanca is the main attraction, as indicated by the episode's title), even as Read More

Close to Danger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Recovering from a disastrous romance, graduate student Jennifer Cole (Lisa Rinna) is attracted to the brilliant, charismatic and unpredictable aspiring author Adam (Rob Estes), whose manuscript she has been hired to type. Adam's proposed novel concerns a serial killer who has systematically Read More

Spirit Lost

Crew: Director

Actors: Leon, Regina Taylor, Cynda Williams, Juanita Jennings, Tamara Tunie

Synopsis: In this spooky horror movie, a painter and his pregnant wife buy a beautiful island home without realizing that it is haunted by the lovely and terribly lonely ghost of a sea captain's lover. Anxious for a new lover to join her, this sexy she-ghost does all she can to simultaneously seduce the Read More

Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlayne Woodard, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: In 1988, Gail Devers was one of the best female sprinters in America, and seemed assured of a place on the United States Olympic Team to compete in the 100-meter hurdles in that year's games in Seoul, South Korea. However, tragedy struck Devers in the form of Grave's Disease, a rare ailment that Read More

Sin and Redemption

Crew: Director

Actors: Cynthia Gibb, Richard Grieco, Ralph Waite, Cheryl Pollak, Concetta Tomei

Synopsis: A mother's happiness is shattered when she learns an awful truth about the man she married shortly after she had been brutally raped and left pregnant by a stranger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Better off Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Mare Winningham

Synopsis: Mare Winningham stars in this made-for-cable TV movie about a woman who, after a lifetime of bad luck, ends up on death row -- where she insists the sentence be carried out promptly. Film was co-produced by author and noted feminist Gloria Steinem. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Scattered Dreams: The Kathy Messenger Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This powerful fact-based made-for-TV drama follows a poor, illiterate woman as she bravely takes on the government child protective services in hopes that they will return her three children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cosby Show: It's Apparent to Everyone

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Clair (Phylicia Rashad) are worn to a frazzle by the disruptive behavior of their twin grandkids Nelson (Gary Gray) and Winnie (Jessica Vaughn). Even more annoying is the unwillingness of the twins' parents Sondra (Sabrina LeBeauf) and Elvin (Geoffrey Owens) to curb the Read More

A Different World: How Great Thou Art

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Apprenticing as an art buyer for E.H. Wright, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) purchases some paintings by a promising but unknown artist--thereby going against the specific instructions of her new boss. It looks like Whitley's career is over before it has even begun, until an unexpected development occurs. Read More

A Different World: The Cash Isn't Always Greener

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Will Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) go on to graduate school, or will he accept a fabulous job from the Kinishewa company? Dwayne allows Whitley (Jasmine Guy) and Ron (Darryl M. Bell) to sway his decision, but he is ultimately forced to rely on his own judgement thanks to a crisis involving Col.Taylor's Read More

A Different World: Love, Hillman-Style

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As this year's Valentine's Day project, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) is doing a "Men of Hillman" calendar. Naturally, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) wants to participate, but Whitley rejects him on the grounds that he isn't "buff" enough. Elsewhere, Ron (Darryl M. Bell) lands in hot water when he makes three Read More

The Cosby Show: The Return of the Clairettes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Leslie Uggams guest stars as Kris Temple, beloved high school chum of Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad). As Clair and Kris gigglingly recreate their salad days by swapping gossip, wearing wigs and bursting into song, their husbands Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Herb (Ron Foster) take advantage of their Read More

The Cosby Show: Theo's Final Final

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A grim-visaged Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) puts his social life on hold in order to study for an economics exam that could very well place him on the Dean's List. Unfortunately, he is sidetracked by a pretty exchange student from Barbados, whom he impulsively invites to the party that he had Read More

The Cosby Show: 27 and Still Cooking

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Clair (Phylicia Rashad) have something REALLY special in mind for their 27th wedding anniversary: a meticulously detailed reenactment of their first honeymoon meal. Cliff has gone so far as to replicate the atmosphere of the Carribean restaurant where it all took place Read More

A Different World: Soldier Boy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Whitley (Jasmine Guy) faces the challenge of a lifetime when Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) bets her that she can't go an entire day without flirting. Elsewhere, a nervous Ron (Darryl M. Bell) organizes a roast for Colonel Taylor (Glynn Turman), inviting the Colonel's former Vietnam comrade Frank Read More

The Cosby Show: It's All in the Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Returning from a relaxing vacation in Vermont, Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Clair (Phylicia Rashad) find their household in complete disarray--and even more vexing, all of the kids are making impassioned financial demands upon their long-suffering parents. Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) has been Read More

Zora is My Name!

Crew: Director

Actors: Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr., Roger E. Mosley, Flip Wilson

Synopsis: A PBS "American Playhouse" production, this is an amusing TV outing revealing the life of Zora Neale Hurston, a black writer known for her folklore and stories from the rural South of the 1930s and 1940s. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

A Different World: Here's to Old Friends

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) is visited by his highly opinionated friend Milt (Wren T. Brown), who immediately launches into a devastating criticism of Dwayne's college and his choice of friends--especially Ron (Darryl M. Bell). Elsewhere, Col. Taylor attends a serviceman's reunion, hoping to be Read More

A Different World: That's the Trouble with You All

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In an effort to keep Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) from pining over her, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) arranges a date for him with gorgeous coed Megan Lewis (Torri Whitehead). But when Dwayne and Megan show signs of hitting it off, Whitley becomes terrifyingly jealous. Elsewhere, Jaleesa (Dawnn Lewis) and Read More

A Different World: Sweet Charity

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Strapped for cash, Kim (Charnele Brown) takes a night job at funeral parlor in addition to her regular job at The Pit. Distressed by this news, the gang contrives to "stuff" the Pit's tip box--but instead of being grateful, Kim is outraged. Elsewhere, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Ron (Darryl M. Read More

The Cosby Show: The Day the Spores Landed

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In a wild and surprisingly profound foray into fantasy, Cliff (Bill Cosby) dreams that a Peruvian volcano eruption has polluted the world's water supply, resulting in a epidemic of pregnant men. As a result, Cliff, Elvin (Geoffrey Owens), Martin (Joseph C. Phillips) and Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) Read More