2: LESLIE HARRIS is the writer and director of "Just Another Girl on the IRT." This is HARRIS's first film, and with it she became one of few African-American women film directors to have her film released nationally. The film won the special jury prize for a first-time film maker at the Sundance Film Festival. It's about a highschool junior, Chantel, who is an A-student, with a gift of gab and an attitude. The New York Times's Vincent Canby wrote of the character that she is, "almost as significant of her place and time as Booth Tarkington's Penrod is of his."
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