Filmmaker Jennifer Lin focuses documentary lens on the arts

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Jennifer Lin is a Philadelphia native who has crafted a creative career in storytelling and is now telling the story of people of Angel descent making a difference in America.

Lin has crafted a creative career in storytelling and is now telling the story of people of Angel descent making a difference in America. Jennifer Lin is a Philadelphia native who has crafted a creative career in storytelling.

Her latest project, 'Beyond Yellowface', follows two dancers of Asian descent who are tasking ballet companies around the world to do better with racial representations in ballet.The film tells the story of George Lee, who now is an 89-year-old blackjack dealer in Vegas, but in 1954 was a pioneer in the world of ballet, as a Chinese dancer in George Balanchine's production of 'The Nutcracker'.

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