Chloe x Halle Partner With Neutrogena, Ghetto Film School to Mentor Young Filmmakers
variety.comWyatte Grantham-Philips editorChloe x Halle are championing emerging filmmakers through Neutrogena Studios’ First Frame Program, which released two short films — “En Avant” and “If My Voice Rang Louder Than My Skin” — on Thursday.Both films, produced in partnership with the nonprofit Ghetto Film School, address the First Frame Program’s mission of spotlighting experiences surrounding skin health and what it means to embrace your skin.
Chloe and Halle Bailey, who are also Neutrogena brand ambassadors, helped curate the program and mentored the filmmakers as they developed their shorts.The R&B duo underlined the importance of amplifying work from young, Black creatives — and shared their joys of working with “En Avant” writer/director Sarah Jean Williams and “If My Voice Rang Louder Than My Skin” writer/director Kyra Peters. “Chloe and I were just grateful to be a part of this conversation,” Halle tells Variety. “It’s really important for young Black women to feel like they have a platform to express their creative ideas, their voices and their opinions about their experience living in their skin.
So we were really honored to be a part of this and to comment on [the filmmakers’] amazing creativity.”“I’m so proud of these young ladies,” adds Chloe. “And Ghetto Film School always has such incredible talent.”“En Avant” follows Ragan (Toi-ya Leatherwood), a Black ballerina who faces racism in a white-dominated art form.
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