Student Profile: Emaan England, 2010

Spelman Senior, a PRECIOUS Intern


When Emaan England interned for Lee Daniels in New York during the summer of 2008, she coordinated post production film screenings, organized focus groups, created survey questions and analyzed research results for what is now the award winning, theatrical release, "Precious,” starring Mo Nique and Gabourey Sidibe.

Emaan didn’t realize that 18 months later, she would attend the movie and anxiously await the END of the film to see her name on the screen. Emaan England will be credited in “Precious” as a development intern.

As an Atlanta native and Spelman senior, she spent the last two summers in New York boosting her resume in film and television entertainment. In 2008, Emaan worked for Lee Daniels Entertainment and The New York Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting.

In 2009, she was accepted into the Time Warner STARS Leadership Development Program and was a Home Box Office Intern in Creative Services.

As an English major, film and visual culture minor, Emaan was an exchange student at Duke University where she broadened her study of film and was a segment producer for "Duke News."

In her senior year, Emaan is active with the SGA as the student events director, and will be a film intern in the spring.

On November 3, seventy Spelman students will attend a premiere party of the highly- anticipated movie produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. Set in Harlem in 1987, the new movie "Precious," based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, tells the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life of hardship and struggle.

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