Drew Barrymore: "Whip It" Director

Barrymore grew up in Los Angeles and became a child star in a famous Hollywood family. She has gone acclaimed actress to movie producer and now, she's a director of her first feature "Whip It". It is about a Texas teenager played by Ellen Page who forsaken her mother's wish for beauty queen notoriety and joins the rough-and-tumble world of female roller derby, premiered this month to good reviews at the Toronto International Film festival and opens on October 09,2009 at US theaters.
-Cherry Ann Antonio-