Award-winning filmmaker and creator of “Dear White People” Justin Simien is set to direct Warner Bros. untitled Sylvia Robinson project about the famed singer, songwriter, and Sugar Hill Records founder known as ‘The Mother of Hip-Hop’.

Paula Wagner acquired the film rights to Robinson’s life story five years ago from Sylvia Robinson’s son Joey Robinson. Wagner, who produced last year’s Marshall and the new Broadway musical Pretty Woman, produces through her Chestnut Ridge Productions along with Homegrown Pictures’ Stephanie Allain and Kraftbox Entertainment’s Robert Kraft.

Carol Kuswanto is an executive assistant to producer Robert Kraft at Kraftbox Entertainment.