Sujata Day, Actor, Writer/Director: Issa Rae just taught me to be true to my point of view and get it out there no matter what, no matter how many rejections you get, no matter how many no’s you get.
Film Courage: How did you meet Issa Rae?
Sujata Day: I met Issa Rae on Twitter. This was 10 years plus a couple months ago. I had just left Facebook because I just thought Facebook was so dramatic and there was just too much going on with having your elementary school friends on there with your middle school friends with your high school friends with your college friends with your family. I was like I need to not be part of this chatter so I left Facebook before it was even cool to leave Facebook and as I left it I said to myself (I was panicking a little bit) and I said Well, I need some kind of social media. What’s it going to be? Then I saw that Twitter was happening and not happening like today but it was it was a newish platform so I was like Okay, I’m going to make a Twitter and then I got on Twitter and I started following this person Joshua at Film TV Diversity and he would Tweet out different writers and producers and directors and creators to follow. I would just click follow on every single one of them because I didn’t know what I was doing on Twitter and…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
With her infectious personality and unique sense of humor, Pittsburgh native Sujata Day has established herself as a performer, creator, writer, and director. She regularly performs in Upright Citizen Brigade’s hit Asian AF show. Sujata is known for her starring role as CeCe in Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. She’s recurred for three seasons on HBO’s Insecure. Sujata is a Sundance Lab fellow, Sundance Film Festival influencer, and Sundance Collab advisor. Her short film, Cowboy and Indian, sold to a major studio for series development. She served as HBO Visionaries Ambassador in 2019. She directs This Is My Story, a series in which beloved storyteller LeVar Burton narrates real life personal experiences of everyday racism. Sujata’s debut award-winning feature film, Definition Please, is currently touring the film festival circuit.
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