'I had to make this happen': how a 19-year-old director wowed Hollywood

Phillip Youmans used his own savings to make his award-winning debut film, attracting the attention of Ava DuVernay

Phillip Youmans, age 19, sits in a chic downtown Manhattan restaurant drinking coffee. As recently as a year ago, when he was just another NYU undergrad, he might very well have walked by and gotten a glimpse of a tableau like this from the outside-in. That sort of thing has been happening a lot lately – finding himself on the other side of a scene he’s witnessed over and over again.

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