Datari Turner

One of the most prolific producers in film, Datari has been a producer who has helped to produce and finance over 40 feature films, including 13 films that have premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

In 2023, Datari produced the critically acclaimed film, They Cloned Tyrone for Netflix, which currently holds a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The indie drama Story Ave, which premiered at SXSW and holds a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the widely acclaimed courtroom drama, The Burial, for Amazon which recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and holds a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Together, Datari’s films have earned 98 festival award nominations. Datari has worked with Eight Academy Award winners and 17 Academy Award nominees.

In 2019, Datari partnered with Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx to form Foxxhole Productions which Datari served as President of Foxxhole Productions from 2019 to 2026.

Blackfilm.com ranked Datari Turner fourth on the list of Top 10 African-American producers of the decade (2010-2019) only behind Will Packer, Broderick Johnson, and Tyler Perry.

In 2023, Blackfilm and TV.com ranked Datari Turner number one on it’s annual list of African-American Film Producers for 2023.

Datari received the AAFCA Producers of the year award in 2024. The same year, Ninety-Five Senses, an animated short film Executive Produced by Jamie and Datari was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

In television, Datari has produced over 400 hours of original programming for networks such as Fox, Showtime, WEtv, Netflix, BET, Starz and Apple. Datari Created and executive produced the hit WEtv

franchise "Growing Up Hip Hop,” that ran nine seasons and was the network’s highest-rated program. Toya and

Reginae, The Barnes Bunch, Brat Loves Judy, and The Braxtons are other tv- series that are executive produced by Datari on the WeTv network.

Datari was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and an Emmy in 2019, for producing the critically acclaimed Showtime doc series "Shut Up and Dribble," alongside NBA Superstar Lebron James.

Other recent hits that Datari has produced include the action film Day Shift on Netflix. Uncorked on Netflix. The hit television series Alert: Missing Persons Unit that ran for three seasons on Foxx.

In 2025, Datari Executive Produced the Netflix Special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, which was nominated for a Golden Globe and winning the NAACP Image Award.

The action film, Back In Action staring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, was the most watched movie of 2025 on Netflix and ranks as the sixth most watched film of all time on Netflix. Datari serves as an Executive Producer on the film.

The Sundance documentary film, Luther Vandross: Never Too Much, premiered on CNN to critical acclaim and currently holds a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Datari produced the film. Luther: Never Too Much won both an NAACP Image Award and a BET Award in 2025.

Apple’s Number One On The Call Sheet, a two-part documentary film was produced by Datari this year. The groundbreaking documentary starring Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, The Rock, Michael B. Jordan and more, is widely acclaimed and has been called one of the best documentaries of the decade by film critics.