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Bushwick Auteur Frustrated by Lack of Diversity in Film Industry Launches Funding Campaign for a Local Webseries

A local filmmaker who found herself continually confronting narrow casting parameters in mainstream entertainment industry productions is asking her community for support in launching a web series that tackles subjects that, more often than not, don't make it into silver screen and small screen narratives

Bushwick Auteur Frustrated by Lack of Diversity in Film Industry Launches Funding Campaign for a Local Webseries
Film still courtesy of No Reason.

Bushwick Auteur Frustrated by Lack of Diversity in Film Industry Launches Funding Campaign for a Local Webseries

A local filmmaker who found herself continually confronting narrow casting parameters in mainstream entertainment industry productions is asking her community for support in launching a web series that tackles subjects that, more often than not, don't make it into silver screen and small screen narratives

Bushwick Auteur Frustrated by Lack of Diversity in Film Industry Launches Funding Campaign for a Local Webseries
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A local filmmaker who found herself continually confronting narrow casting parameters in mainstream entertainment industry productions is asking her community for support in launching a web series that tackles subjects that, more often than not, don’t make it into silver screen and small screen narratives.

Cassandra Hunter , the writer and producer of the nascent series “No Reason,” teamed up with co-creator and co-writer Richard Lietz to develop the series after finding herself frustrated by the…

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