{"id":137547,"date":"2019-09-21T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=137547"},"modified":"2019-09-21T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T20:39:09","slug":"urbanworld-2019-talking-with-director-deborah-riley-draper-jasmine-guy-natalie-lymor-on-short-film-illegal-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/urbanworld-2019-talking-with-director-deborah-riley-draper-jasmine-guy-natalie-lymor-on-short-film-illegal-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanworld 2019: Talking with Director Deborah Riley Draper, Jasmine Guy & Natalie Lymor on short film ‘Illegal Rose’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At last night Urbanworld Film Festival, Blackfilm.com’s Nasser Metcalfe<\/strong> spoke with writer-director Deborah Riley Draper<\/strong> and actress Jasmine Guy and Natalie Lymor<\/strong> on the short film, Illegal Rose.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rose, a nurse on her way home from a long shift, stops by a convenience store to get her sleeping pills and accidentally kidnaps, Sylvie, a spunky 9-year-old runway from an Immigration Detention Center. The two women change each others lives and perspectives in one afternoon on the Fourth of July. The film challenges us to see kindness, decency and immigration from a different lens and consider no human being is ever illegal.<\/p>\n

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Deborah Riley Draper is a compelling filmmaker and brand consultant. Draper co-wrote and directed \u201cIllegal Rose\u201d, a 2019 short film about immigration starring Jasmine Guy and Lucca Rodriguez-Pedraza. Draper\u2019s next project is “Coffee Will Make You Black”, which is produced by Octavia Spencer and Tate Taylor. Draper penned the screenplay and will direct the coming-of-age adaptation set in 1960\u2019s Chicago. Her previous films include NAACP Image Awards nominee “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” and “Versailles ’73.”<\/p>\n

Video by Mann Robinson<\/p>\n