Press—Vanity Fair

Featured in “5 Black Indie Directors Who Haven’t Let the Pandemic Stop Them” by Cassie Da Costa, published April 26, 2021. 

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“Despite the logistical difficulties of filming amidst a raging public health crisis, it was the perfect moment for Rich to make her film, “especially because no one was busy. And I called in all my favors. I really just wanted to talk about being a Black woman. Because when they look to us, they see us as super women or women who do it all on their own. And this is a woman who struggles; we never get to see that in Hollywood. We never get to see a Black woman just going through a regular womanhood kind of thing.” That ordinariness is essential to Rich’s vision, which weaves together her background in theater design and performance with a rigorously developed attention to the mundane, recalling the work of filmmakers like Barbara Loden, Kathleen Collins, and Chantal Akerman.”