SPONSORS
Girl Trouble is produced in association with
KQED and the Independent
Telivision Service (ITVS). The documentary has obtained
significant additional financial support from the following:
Annie E. Casey
Foundation
Paul
Robeson Fund
San
Francisco Women’s Foundation
San Francisco
Arts Commission
Fleishhacker Foundation
Rockefeller
Foundation Matching Gift Program
Pacific
Pioneer Fund
Women
In Film Finishing Fund
Bay Area Video
Coalition
Karen Snell & Raymond McGrath
Laura Callanan & Romulus Linney
Open
Meadows Foundation
Conifer
Securities
Doug & Terry Young
...and thousands of dollars from individual donors like you.
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Advisors /
Supporters
In addition to our sponsors and donors, we would like to
acknowledge our major supporters and advisors, without whose
contributions of time and knowledge, this documentary could
not have been made:
Laurie Schaffner grew up in Los Angeles, California
in the 1960s and lived on her own as a teenager, including
living in Mexico during the 1970s. She completed her Bachelor's
degree at Smith College, Massachusetts in 1995 and her doctorate
in the Sociology Department at the University of California
at Berkeley in May 2000. She is the author of Teenage Runaways:
Broken Hearts and 'Bad Attitudes' (NY: Haworth Press, 1999.
Her work has earned awards from the American Sociology Association,
the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the American Society
of Criminology. Professor Schaffner is currently a sociologist
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a 2004 Faculty
Scholar at the Great Cities Institute, where she is writing
her forthcoming book, Girlhood on the Edge: Gender, Adolescence,
and the Law (Rutgers University Press). She is co-founder
of the Chicago Girls Coalition, lives in Chicago, and walks
on the shore of Lake Michigan whenever she can.
Julie Posadas Guzman, J.D. is the Coordinator of Girls
Services for the San
Francisco Juvenile Probation Department. She collaborates
with community-based agencies to provide services for girls
in detention including: gender-specific programming, case
management, victim services, mentoring, and court advocacy.
In 2002, she co-founded the Girls Justice Initiative to create
real alternatives to the incarceration of young women. For
the past ten years she has taught hundreds of young women
about their rights in juvenile justice system.
Patti Lee is San Francisco Deputy Public Defender
for juveniles. She provides the project with information on
the law, and how public policy affects criminal defense cases
involving the girls we are following. She has also obtained
both parental consent and the permission of Judge Donna Hitchins
to film any court proceedings involving our main characters.
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To Make A Donation:
All donations are tax deductible. Contributions of any amount
are welcomed. All donors of $1000 or more will receive special
thanks in the film's credits. You may make your tax deductible
donation by writing a check to Critical Images, Inc. and mailing
it to:
Critical Images Inc.
PO BOX 18766
Oakland, CA 94619
You may also donate online with your credit card at the Film
Arts Foundation's Website at: http://www.filmarts.org/sponsoredpr/projectsdonfr.html.
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