Looking for Dawn

Looking for Dawn is a personal search of a filmmaker to explore how the skin color of a bi-racial actress could ultimately define her roles, career, self image and identity. Throughout interviews and archival footage Dawn Wilkinson explore how other bi-racial actresses are creating their own work in order to express themselves.

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Looking for Dawn

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