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Filmmaker Radha Blank Says Lena Waithe Was Her 'Most Important Yes'

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The Real Quick‘s Danielle Young during a panel at the Essence Festival of Culture‘s Entertainment All Access program.Her debut film The 40-Year-Old Version, which made history earlier this year by winning the U.S.

dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival, is being produced by Lena Waithe and was acquired by Netflix. Blank’s movie follows Radha, a newly single poet who’s reconciling with turning 40 and rejection until she ignites her first love—rapping.“I’m just so happy to finally get to share, um, the story that I wrote and created with us in mind as Black women, where we’re centered and we’re complex,” says Blank.

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