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Meet Samiksha Thakur, Hudson County’s 18-Year-Old Award-Winning Filmmaker
“My mom and I used to go to Blockbuster every week, and we’d rent some DVDs. Then ‘Coraline’ came out when I was in preschool going into kindergarten, and that was a surreal to experience it in theaters,” she told Slice of Culture.