Sole Sista explores isolation, and the fish-out-of-water experience. Teen director and Sydneysider Emerie Boone made the film at the Black Girl Film Camp in the United States.
Teen director Emerie Boone initially wanted to be an actress and played Jade in two seasons of The PM's Daughter in her first TV role.
Boone was the first girl outside of the United States selected to participate in Black Girls Film Camp in Los Angeles, a stone's throw away from Hollywood.200 girls were invited to pitch films. Ten were selected to make those films, including Boone.They were given cameras and other equipment they can also use to make future films.
"It's a curly hair salon, which caters to women of curly hair because they're so used to being turned down at other hair salons, which only cater to straight hair or wavy loose curls and not actual dense, curly hair," Boone said. While Boone drew inspiration from her own life, she says Sole Sista isn't just rooted in her own experience.
Just three per cent of Hollywood films are written and directed by Black women, and only three per cent centre Black girls as the subject."It felt really freeing to be in a space where I'm not only embraced but included and seen," she said."I don't want it to be something that is restricted by continent," she said.
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