Rachael Holder, whose feature directorial debut Love, Brooklyn is making a splash at the indie box office, has signed with ColorCreative for management.
Steven Soderbergh is EP for the film, which premiered in the 2025 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition and won the Audience Award at the 2025 BlackStar Festival, opened at the Angelkia in New York August 29 and expanded nationwide to about 100 screens this past weekend for a cume of $180k.
From Greenwich Entertainment, the film stars André Holland (Moonlight, Exhibiting Forgiveness) as a writer navigating complicated relationships with his ex, an art gallery owner (Nicole Beharie, The Morning Show), and his current lover, a newly-single mother (DeWanda Wise, She’s Gotta Have It) with the support of his best friend (Roy Wood Jr., The Daily Show) in a modern romance set against the rapidly changing landscape of Brooklyn.
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Holder created the Emmy-nominated digital series I Love Bekka & Lucy and directed the first block of the second season of Run The World for Starz, as well as episodes of the Apple TV+ series Dickinson. Her other episodic directing credits include Freeform’s Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Love Is (OWN) and Florida Girls (Pop TV).
Holder holds a playwriting MFA from NYU Tisch and is a first-generation Guyanese American.
“I am thrilled to join ColorCreative for management and look forward to collaborating with their talented team,” she said. “As I continue to push the envelope in storytelling, I’m excited for the new opportunities ahead.”
Neda Niroumand, literary manager and producer at ColorCreative, called “an extraordinary talent whose unique voice and visionary storytelling are bound to make a lasting impact in the film industry. We are excited to support her as she continues to create powerful narratives.”
Holder is also represented by CAA and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz.
ColorCreative, the management and production company founded by Issa Rae in 2014 with Deniese Davis and Talitha Watkins and a mission of championing innovative and inclusive entertainment. Most recently, the company produced the Tristar pictures release One Of Them Days starring Keke Palmer and SZA which opened in January. It grossed $50+ million at the domestic box office and was a top movie on Netflix at it’s April streaming release.
ColorCreative clients include Lashana Lynch (The Woman King), Yura Borisov (Anora), Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen), Teyonah Parris (No Good Deed), Mark Eydelshteyn (Anora), Avantika (Mean Girls), Syreeta Singleton (Rap Sh!t), Lawrence Lamont (One of them Days), Bishal Dutta (It Lives Inside), Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour (Shōgun), Jan Oxenberg (Manhunt), Kira Kalush (Ghosts), and Robert Townsend (The Bear).