Craig Brewer is an American film director and screenwriter.
His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy award for Best Original Song, It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp.
Brewer was mostly unknown before Hustle & Flow and his first film, The Poor & the Hungry (2000), was produced using a $20,000 inheritance. Hustle & Flow was financed by filmmaker John Singleton, who mortgaged his house to pay for the film.
Brewer's subsequent project, Black Snake Moan, began filming in September 2005 and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake. Like Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan was filmed in Memphis, Tennessee. Production completed on Black Snake Moan in October 2005 and it was released on March 2, 2007.
A new film, Maggie Lynn, is currently in production.
Brewer has been compared to William Faulkner by Kevin Smith.
