Nnegest Likké is an internationally based, Award Winning film director, screenwriter and producer. Nnegest Likké Born Oakland, California, United States Biography Edit Nnegest is an American filmmaker, who grew up in San Francisco and Oakland, California. She considers herself tri-cultural being of African-American, Ethiopian and Nigerian heritage. Nnegest earned her B.A. in Mass Communications from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2015 she helmed the film Ben & Ara. In 2017, she wrote, directed and produced Everything But a Man starring Monica Calhoun and Jimmy Jean-Louis. Her début film was Fox Searchlight's Phat Girlz.