An Interview with Writer/Director/Producer Penelope Lawson
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
I Want to Be Helena
Iza is a young black woman who lives with her aunt and studies at a private school surrounded by white colleagues. In Iza's eyes she just wanted to be more like Helena, the most popular girl at Laura Fontenelle school.
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Iza is a young black woman who lives with her aunt and studies at a private school surrounded by white colleagues. In Iza's eyes she just wanted to be more like Helena, the most popular girl at Laura Fontenelle school.
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