Directed by Daniel Yost, co-screenwriter of
Gus Van Sant's
Drug Store Cowboy, and distributed by Leo Films, Actress looks at what aspiring actresses go through on the road to stardom. The 1999 documentary details six months in the lives of five African-American women, following them and highlighting the challenges and adversity they face as not only minority women, but as unknowns in Hollywood. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide