Greetings Friends and Supporters,

After 5 long years in the making, Girl Trouble is now available for purchase on VHS along with a study guide!!!!!! Educational institutions and non-profits, can purchase the film through NEW DAYFILMS, a filmmaker-owned distribution company dedicated to social justice media, at:

http://www.newday.com/films/GirlTrouble.html

Or contact:

NEW DAY FILMS
190 Route 17M
P.O. Box 1084
Harriman, NY 10926
PH: 888.367.9154
FAX: 845.774.2945
E-mail: orders@newday.com

Individuals will be able to purchase the film in 2005 directly from this web site at the non-profit price.

Big News – PBS Broadcast!

Girl Trouble is scheduled to have a national PBS Broadcast on Independent Lens in the 2005-2006 season where it will reach millions of Americans with an urgent and timely message about young girls at risk.

To Hear about Screenings, Broadcasts, and Events...

Please subscribe to our newsletter at:
http://www.girltrouble.org/news/subscribe.html

New National Outreach Campaign!

Tied to the national PBS broadcast on Independent Lens, our organizing campaign will strategically leverage all the film’s momentum, prestige and public attention to inform viewers across the country that girls are entering the criminal justice system in greater number and with harsher penalties than ever before. These young women desperately need community-based prevention services and gender-specific programming within the system that will prevent them from graduating into adult incarceration. If you would like to partner with us in our national outreach campaign, Please contact Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko at info@girltrouble.org.

Please forward this e-mail to anyone who you think would be interested in our movie!

About the Film

For those of you who are not familiar with our project, Girl Trouble documents the compelling personal stories of three teenage girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system for four years of their lives. These young women, and many like them, aren’t just at-risk—they are in deep trouble. Trying to change their lives, the girls work part-time at the innovative Center for Young Women’s Development, an organization run by young women who have faced similar challenges. As the girls confront seemingly impossible problems and pivotal decisions, the Center’s 22-year-old executive director, Lateefah Simon, and the girls themselves act as each other’s support and mentors. The film documents the girls’ remarkable successes and heartbreaking setbacks —their daily struggles with poverty, violence, homelessness, and the courts.

What People are Saying about Girl Trouble

"This documentary will be indispensable to high school, college, and graduate courses in a wide range of disciplines such as political science, law, social work, as well as psychology, anthropology, and sociology. It is moving and informative: there will not be a dry eye in the room at its conclusion." ~ Dr. Laurie Schaffner, Department of Sociology
University of Illinois, Chicago

"By turns heart-wrenching and inspiring, the movie does a terrific job of conveying the girls' nightmarishly complicated situations without demonizing judges and prosecutors or sentimentalizing its subjects."
~ San Francisco Weekly

"A fine documentary about "at risk" kids… Juvenile delinquent stereotypes are usefully demolished while the lack of supportive environs and services for such girls becomes painfully clear. Fast-moving, involving item is a natural for public TV slots and educational outreach." ~ Variety

Screenings

Completed in 2004, Girl Trouble premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April where it received the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Feature Documentary. Since then, it has screened at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Independent Feature Project/New York, the Film Arts Foundation Film Festival and in December it will screen at the first film festival in South Africa’s oldest black township in Durban organized by the National Black Programming Consortium.

Thank you for support and Happy New Year,

Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko
Director/Producers, Girl Trouble

<<< back || top || Click here to download an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of this newsletter.