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  • This Director and Woman of Color Doesn’t Buy Matt Damon’s Diversity Apology (Guest Blog)

    By Victoria Mahoney | September 18, 2015 @ 5:45 PM

    There’s collective shock among African-Americans over Damon’s remark on “Project Greenlight,” says Victoria Mahoney

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Victoria Mahoney

Victoria Mahoney developed “Yelling to the Sky” through the Directors and Screenwriters Sundance Institute Labs and was named an Auerbach Screenwriting Fellow, Annenberg Film Fellow, Cinereach Fellow, Maryland Fellow, IFP Narrative Lab fellow and a Tribeca Film Fellow. She was also named one of, “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine, “Yelling to the Sky,” starring Zoe Kravitz, Jason Clarke, Gabourey Sidibe and Tim Blake Nelson, had its World Premiere in Competition at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear, thereby anointing Mahoney as only the fourth American Woman, Writer/Director, invited to Competition in over 61 years. Mahoney is currently developing her next feature, “Chalk_Rx,” directing “The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet” starring Gywneth Paltrow, Zoe Saldana and Chelsea Handler, and “Exhale” for Magic Johnson. Her shorts include "Wracked," “Graduation” and “Searching.”
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