This Filmmaker Is Showing Hollywood What A Real Leading Lady Looks Like. Glad We + You Could Help.

Iyin Landre is a super inspiring woman who realized that 1) Hollywood wasn’t going to look past the fact that she (like many Americans) is not white and 2) the only way she’d be able to play a non-stereotypical character in a film was if she made the movie herself. So she made a Kickstarter…

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Jan 23, 2014

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