‘Not Okay’ Helmer Quinn Shephard Takes on Internet Culture

Quinn Shephard may be only 27, but she’s already a veteran of the film festival circuit.

At 22, she was lauded at Tribeca for her feature debut, “Blame,” which she also wrote (she started the screenplay in high school) and in which she starred with Chris Messina.

Shephard began acting when she was 3 years old.

“I just grew up feeling really comfortable on sets; like sets were my happy place,” she says, burying any clichés about troubled child actors.

In middle school, she started making short films.

“Film was the intersection between all the different kinds of art.

I always loved visual arts and music, performance, writing — like just all the kinds of storytelling — and film was the one place where you could kind of do everything.”Her sophomore feature, “Not Okay,” debuts July 29 on Hulu.

The sharp satire explores the impact of notoriety and ambition via social media, specifically through

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