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The McCaskey Alumni Association honored five former J.P. McCaskey High School graduates during a virtual broadcast of their 2021 Distinguished Alumni Banquet on Thursday night.
Indian American filmmaker Manjari Makijany is taking skateboards to rural India and you can witness it on Netflix.
Her debut feature, âSkater Girl,â which is coming to Netflix June 11, showcases how Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when sheâs introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.
The film, starring debutante Rachel Saanchita Gupta as Prerna, highlights the challenges of constructing one of Indiaâs largest skateparks to drive social change and showcases the struggles of empowering women in a remote village in Rajasthan.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
March 2, 2021
“With all my heart I believe to live life is to dream it first,” wrote Maya Angelou in a column for Essence magazine in 1975 titled “The Woman I Thought I’d Be.” “One is
never too old to make that dream come true to become the woman one
thinks to be.”
That year, Maya Angelou, who died in 2014, would become the first Black woman to join the Directors Guild in the director’s category. To help kickoff Women’s History Month, the UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with the Black Feminism Initiative in the UCLA Center for the Study of Women will show “The Tapestry” as part of its on-going Virtual Screening Room on March 4.