40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Inc.

Spike Lee founded 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks based in his childhood neighborhood, the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn in 1986, after gaining box office success and critical acclaim from producing, writing, acting, and directing his first feature film She’s Gotta Have It. Since the inception of 40 Acres, it has developed and produced outstanding feature films such as the box office hit Inside Man, 25th Hour, Academy Award nominated 4 Little Girls, Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing. The company gave a whole generation of young people at the time access to the film industry that they did not have before. 40 Acres helped launch the careers of numerous young African American actors and production staff over the course of its history.