Lena Dunham has suffered a social media backlash after it emerged she has been commissioned by Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams to write the script for a film about a Syrian refugee who was stranded at sea.
However, Dunham, who wrote and directed the award-winning 2010 feature film Tiny Furniture as well as creating the HBO TV series Girls, was immediately accused on social media of “whitewashing”.
Spielberg and Abrams are due to act as producers on the project, with short-film specialist Arif Hussein as executive producer.
PLEASE!!!!”, while another wrote: “A person with your platform needs to provide the opportunity for real refugees to tell their stories.