Jesse Erica Epstein is a Sundance award-winning filmmaker. She received an MA in documentary film from New York University. She was selected for "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by filmmaker magazine, and is a member-owner of New Day Films. She also works as a youth media educator, and for three years taught Reel Stories: Sundance's Youth Documentary Lab. Jesse has also taught Girls Make Movies at the Girls Leadership Institute, and has a published New York Times Video Op-Ed "Sex, Lies and Photoshop."
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Okay this is just awesome. Thinking back to all the magazines I saw as a pre-teen and wishing all of them could be like the image on the right.
Go Katherine Young! Her media literacy project officially went viral when it was posted by Amy Schumer Check out her blog & “magazine-gate”: http://www.katherineyoungcreative.com/blog/
” “[My stylist] Darius Baptist thought that I should wear a bodysuit and just show my thighs, since I’m so self-conscious about them,” said Polanco, who also wore this sheer catsuit to The Blonds’ after party….
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“But f**k it, this is me, this is who I am, this is real,” Polanco told Vanity Fair. “I was made this way.”
