What movie would she make with a $1-billion budget? “An alien apocalypse film featuring a Black family'
“When I was in ninth grade, at Rick Hansen Secondary in Mississauga, I brought my mom’s camcorder to school and filmed my friends freestyle rapping.”“Growing up, I wasn’t seeing any positive representations of young Black people on TV. I wanted to change that.”, premiered at SXSW. It’s about a Black girl watching television with her mother. We made it in my producer Tamar Bird’s apartment for $0.”“No matter how many directors are out there, you have your own voice, and nobody can do what you do.
“Mahershala Ali. I would love to write a beautiful character-based film for him and watch him carry it.”premiered at Sundance, I tweeted about my disappointment in the lack of support from Canada. Ava DuVernay retweeted it, and I went viral.”
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