About Girl Trouble
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The girls of Girl Trouble
are wrestling with poverty, domestic violence, drug addiction
and homelessness in their lives. When we first see them in
the film, they have already had contact with the juvenile
justice system; dealing drugs, cutting school, assaulting
others.
They come to the Center
for Young Women’s Development. The center is the
nation's first employment, leadership, and advocacy program
run entirely by and for girls who have been locked up and
are trying to change their lives. There, they meet Lateefah
Simon, the 22-year old single mom, Executive Director of the
Center. She mentors the girls as they try to transform their
lives.
But change isn’t going
to happen overnight. Their lives take various twists and turns,
2 steps forward and 3 steps back. The film follows them out
of the Center and into the courts and their personal lives.
In Girl Trouble, the
girls tell their own stories. In entering their world, we
begin to see through their eyes, and come to understand their
solutions to the seemingly insurmountable challenges they
face. Girl Trouble redefines success as the film traces
the girls’ struggles to understand their lives, presenting
hard-won insights rarely heard in public dialogue about girls
in trouble.
Girl Trouble is a film
that takes a personal look at the reasons why teenage girls
are entering the juvenile justice system in greater numbers
and at younger ages, and why current corrections strategies
are failing to stop the cycle of incarceration. Girl Trouble
depicts several bold and articulate young women who must negotiate
a system that at the same time seeks to punish and rehabilitate
those who come into contact with it.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Critical Images Inc.
P.O. Box 18766
Oakland, CA 94619
PHONE/FAX: 415-786-8270 or 415-509-2678
LEXI LEBAN, Producer/Director
415-786-8270 || info@girltrouble.org
LIDIA SZAJKO, Producer/Director
415-509-2678 || info@girltrouble.org
WEB DESIGN & MAINTENANCE
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