Writer, MANchild (2008 Ohio Contest Winner)

"Through my script I want to tell viewers they can do something different … more than society expects."

- Earlaina Kemp

Earlaina Kemp is an honor student and President of the Senior Class at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Cleveland, Ohio. She wrote her script, MANchild, as an assignment for her teacher Rik York in his Language Arts class. Earlaina hopes that the film she created with director Rawson Marshall Thurber can provide both an analytical as well as a positive alternative to more stereotypical depictions of black masculinity.

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