TYRA BANKS is adding to her business empire – she has stepped behind the camera to create a mini-movie.

The former supermodel has branched out into business, creating a TV empire with her worldwide hit reality show America’s Next Top Model and her own talk show, as well as being an accomplished photographer.

And she can now add director to her resume – on an upcoming episode of her model hunt, Banks will make and edit an “over-the-top Italian drama” to showcase the remaining beauties in the current season of the competition.

Banks admits learning about moviemaking was a challenge.

She tells People.com, “A lot of designers and people in the fashion industry are feeling like the future of fashion is not just still photos, but they’ve been doing mini-movies where the models are acting things out.

“Photography has been my own personal hobby for the last eight years, so I was ready for movement. But it was so hard. It was 100 degrees and the girls were really struggling with the heat. But when I got to editing, I was like, ‘Oh my god, I love this!’”

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We’re down to four contestants on cycle 15 of America’s Next Top Model.

On Wednesday night, each one will meet with Vogue Italia’s editor-in-chief, Franca Sozzani. They’ll also be directed, for the first time in show history, by Tyra Banks herself.

The following preview and clip reveal exactly what’s in store for the remaining ladies, highlighted by what is known as a “motion editorials.” Tyra seems mighty excited by the prospect. The finalists? Not so much, especially when they learn that two will be going home…

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Supermodel Tyra Banks will donate one of her designer outfits to augment enough money for electrification jobs in Rwanda and Haiti.

Banks, 37, will do the good deed along with other fashion
muses including Brooke Shields and Elle Macpherson in collaboration with an online auction site, Contactmusic reported.

“We have asked about 30 top models, including Tyra Banks, Eva Herzigova, Brooke Shields, Elle Macpherson and Christy Turlington to donate ‘one frickin dress’ they have worn on the red carpet,” organiser Elletra Wiedemann has said.

Designer pieces up for grabs feature a Bally dress worn by Christy Turlington, a pink Ralph Lauren outfit, a white Roberto Cavalli gown and a gold gown crafted by Michael Kors and seen on Brooke Shields.

“These gorgeous dresses will be auctioned off on Charitybuzz and the money will go towards buying solar panels for clinics that currently have zero access or very limited access to electricity in Rwanda and Haiti,” Wiedemann said hoping to raise at least $ 100,000.

The collaboration between OneFrickinDay charity and online auction site Charitybuzz is part of the Model Behaviour initiative for this cause.

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She is giving five former America’s Next Top Model contestants a second chance. They are Somali-Ethiopian Fatima Siad, and US-born Dominque Reighard, Lauren Utter, Renee Alway and Bianca Golden.

The contestants move into a New York City apartment while cameras follow their every move. They give updates on their personal and professional lives since they left the show. In this episode, Siad admits that she has a hard time making ends meet. Reighard reveals that when she returned home from the show, she found out that her boyfriend had made another woman pregnant.

Each woman has a story that she believes held her back from reaching her full potential.

They will face a series of challenges along the way to being crowned the winner of Modelville. The winner will walk away with a modeling contract worth $50000.

R&B superstar Ne-Yo will also appear to talk about his career, his love life and perform two of his songs.

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