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Brown Girls: Directed by Mark Cendrowski. With Hina Abdullah, Punam Patel, Geyby Aguilar, Anjali Bhimani. Rimmi, an Indian-American aspiring beauty vlogger, and Devi, a young woman who has recently immigrated from India, are brought together by family.
- Mark Cendrowski
- 2017
- Comedy
- Hina Abdullah, Punam Patel, Geyby Aguilar
- Brown Girls
- Development and Finance
- Production
- Launch
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Type:Narrative Web Series Director: Sam Bailey Writer: Fatimah Asghar Producer: Sam Bailey Budget: $20,000 Financing: Grants/Crowdfunding Production:9 days, August 2016 Shooting Format: Sony A7S, Black Magic World Premiere: elle.com (online) Distributor:Open TV Awards: 2017 Emmy Awards; Nominated—Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series; Strea...
“I didn’t go to film school,” says Sam Bailey, producer/director of Brown Girls.“Web series were a way into the medium that felt very low-risk, but got our work out immediately to the people we wanted to see it.” In February of 2016, Bailey had just wrapped two seasons of one series when writer Fatimah Asghar reached out to say she had an idea for ...
Brown Girls shot for nine days in August of 2016. With narrow margins, the shoot was uninsured, unpermitted and all but one location was secured for free. Knowing that avoiding tickets and unhappy merchants could be difficult, the filmmakers paid attention to the production’s relationship with the community; they used the smallest possible crew and...
“When you’re working with an editor that you can’t pay a daily rate to, you kind of have to stretch [post-production] out more,” Bailey explains of the process of cutting first a trailer—which premiered in mid-October—and then the series itself during her editor’s off-hours from another job. Having worked with Open TV before to distribute her previ...
Bailey and Asghar had always envisioned a hometown Chicago launch for Brown Girls, but when friends in New York expressed interest in coordinating a simultaneous launch in both cities, they began to wonder if they couldn’t pull off something with slightly bigger scope. Asghar put out the word on Facebook, thinking a few connections out of town migh...
With a number of interested buyers tracking the show’s performance, Bailey and Asghar returned to LA in early March to pitch to networks. They received three offers and ultimately made a development deal with HBO to adapt the project for TV. Asghar will stay on as writer; Bailey is attached to direct the pilot should the series move forward. Both c...
“Make the thing that you want because you want to make it—not because you’re expecting an outcome,” Asghar suggests, and advises other artists to stay focused on the work, not its scale. “Nobody has the luxury of money—especially when you come from a marginalized background. What’s important is that you get your work out there, and that you build y...
It depicts a black debutante ball (a tradition in African-American communities in the Southern United States) and showcases a variety of black and brown girls and women, including Mexican-Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o, British model Naomi Campbell, American singer Kelly Rowland, South Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech, Sudanese ...
BGDM Member Films at True/False 2024. Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM) works to disrupt inequity in the film industry by nurturing, amplifying, and investing in the creative capacity and professional success of our members.
Created by Fatimah Asghar and loosely based on her own life, Brown Girls, follows the friendship between Leilah (Nabila Hossain), a South Asian writer and Patricia (Sonia Denis), a sex-positive...
The Burning Girls: Created by Hans Rosenfeldt. With Samantha Morton, Ruby Stokes, Conrad Khan, Paul Bradley. A reverend and her daughter start a new life in a village that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
Brown Girls Doc Mafia Is Building a Diverse Doc Utopia Influencers: Now in just its sixth year, the ambitious filmmaking collective is making waves, supporting rising stars, and providing ...
