What we were most hoping to ...

What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice system, which is broken on every level, from the street all the way up to the highest level of government.
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 Gina Prince-Bythewood

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My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive. But growing up, I absolutely did have that feeling of, "Wow, somebody just gave me up." That was infused in The Secret Life of Bees too - the protagonist wanting unconditional love from her dead but much-imagined mother.
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 Gina Prince-Bythewood
I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.
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 Gina Prince-Bythewood
I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.
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 Gina Prince-Bythewood