00:00I do remember being at SC, skipping my crit studies classes, sorry, and but Gina Prince-Bythewood was talking in another class, so I had to slide in to see, you know, this woman who, you know, did Love and Basketball and that completely changed the trajectory of my life. I was going to go to law school, leaving undergrad, saw that film, saw Boys Don't Cry by Kimberly Pierce and said, if I'm going to go into debt, might as well do it for something that I love, and then I went to film school at USC.
00:26And so it started there to be in those spaces, and as I did more programs for Film Independent, Sundance, you start to have these people come in, and when you have them come in, try to start those relationships if you can, but as time goes on, who you work with.
00:43When we go to a party, we, in essence, Black Women of Hollywood, which is nothing but a love fest for us, and that starts to give you some kind of nurturing, some kind of community, you know, cross.
00:55But for me, it's mostly when we do events like this, we get a chance to really connect and share experiences, and I think talk about things that we don't really get a chance to talk about because we're working and we want to keep working, but we can have more candid conversations.
01:10And I think it's that honesty, when you can have it, that really supports you through an industry that is very tough.
01:17Let's not pretend like it's not.
01:19It's hard enough making good work, but it's hard enough navigating through a political system that necessarily isn't built for you.
01:25It may not be welcoming to you.
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