Jasmine Is a Star

[Plays Oct. 22 at 12:30 p.m. at the Twin Cities Film Festival; for more information, log on to twincitiesfilmfest.org.] Jo Rochelle's realistic, factually based, coming-of-age, 58-minute film in which an ambitious, self-assured, 16-year-old, Black high school student (Lyana LeShea) who has strawberry blond hair and suffers from albinism, which results in lack of pigmentation in skin, eyes, and hair, in Minneapolis dreams of being a professional supermodel with support of her mother but disapproval of her overprotective father.
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