Amandla Stenberg says she enjoyed first directing effort

LOS ANGELES – Actress and singer Amandla Stenberg directed a music video for a song in her new film “Everything, Everything,” and says she wants to spend more time behind the camera.

Stenberg recorded a version of Mac DeMarco’s “Let My Baby Stay” for the film’s soundtrack, and starred in, directed and edited the music video. She said in an interview Thursday that she wants to do more editing and directing, in addition to her already busy schedule of writing, acting and activism.

The 18-year-old actress plays a teenage girl who lives a sequestered life because of severe allergies in the young-adult romance film.

Stenberg said she wanted to make “Everything, Everything” because it’s a whimsical love story with a black girl at its center, yet it has nothing to do with race.