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Angry Little Girls comic strip is getting a TV and holiday movies adaptation
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Lela Lee is partnering with Gamechanger Films for a TV and movie adaptation of her cult classic webcomic strip following a 6-year-old Korean American girl named Kim whose unapologetic rage against and questioning of injustices regarding race, gender stereotypes and other societal ironies punctuate the goings-on in her life. Lee created her comic as an animated episode The Angry Little Asian Girl as a student at UC Berkeley in 1994. The resulting shorts led to a short-lived animated series on Asian American network Mnet in 2015.
TOPICS: Asian Americans and TV, Angry Little Girls, Lela Lee, Gamechanger Films, In Development
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