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Live from Essence Fest 2024 An Interview with Laurie J. Gardiner

🎉✨ Bonus Episode Alert! ✨🎉

We’re thrilled to bring you a special bonus episode of the Sista Brunch podcast recorded live at the Essence Film Festival! 🎬🌟 Our host, Fanshen Cox, sits down with the incredible Laurie Gardiner (USC grad), to discuss her deeply personal and impactful screenplay, 'Onset,' which explores themes of speech impediments and emotional trauma. Lori shares her journey from overcoming her own stutter to becoming a screenwriter and producing her first feature film.

'Laurie Gardner’s script—an autobiographical coming-of-age drama involving a former opera singer—highlights the…

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