"Tell Me How...To Be Pretty"
A young girl struggles with her self-image after being confronted by her own insecurities. What does it mean to be pretty?
Social & External
The people behind it
Lila Chakonas
Girl
Alexandra Meade
Insecurity
Skylynn Crider
Self-Love
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Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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