Episode Seven: Interview with Jeanette Dilone | Rizo | A Short Film with an Afro-Latina Lead

In this episode, we chat about Jeanette Dilone's second short film “Rizo”. The short film is about an Afro-Latina struggling with her identity as she navigates the Hollywood machine. Jeanette is a native New Yorker, born and raised in upper Manhattan. Though Jeanette's first passion was classical ballet, she fell in love with acting during her college years at Columbia University, where she double majored in Theater and Psychology. Since then, her acting work has spanned television, film, theater, commercials, and new media. Currently, Jeanette is expressing her passion for other aspects of the filmmaking process. She made her directorial debut with the short film, "Return," which she also wrote, produced, starred in.