Every January, some of the finest new filmmaking talent trot their debut films out at the Sundance Film Festival. For director Dee Rees (right in photo), who received immediate attention for her debut feature Pariah at this year's festival, it was a much longer journey, because the film was an extension of a short film of the same name that did the festival circuit four years early.
Both films star bright young newcomer Adepero Oduye (left in photo) in the role of 17-year-old Alike (pronounced Ah-leek-kay), an inner city teenager from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, who is having gender and sexual identity issues, something her conservative parents could never possibly understand. As she tries her best to keep her desire to be with other women a secret from her parents, she is torn between...
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