The 6th annual Girls' Voices Now film screening is a celebration of the 14 girls who graduated from our intensive summer training program. The screening will showcase their social-change films, highlighting critical issues such as gender roles, beauty standards, women in power, and the immigrant experience.

EVENT PROGRAM:

The event will begin at 7:00pm and conclude at 9:00pm, following the Filmmaker Q&A and a dessert reception.

Theater Opens at 6:45pm
Welcome & Opening Remarks
About the Girls' Voices Now Program
Screening of 4 short social-change docs created by our youth filmmakers
Filmmaker Q&A
Thank you & Ending Remarks
Post-Program dessert reception

The screening is taking place in-person at the Rose Hill Auditorium at Mount Saint Mary's University Doheny Campus located at 10 Chester Place. Parking is included with the ticket.

ABOUT THE FILMS:

The Beauty in Being Different

Filmmakers: Rebekah Grace de Guzman (15), Jairemei De Padua (15), Madison McNorrin Watson (15), Jennifer Tecum (16)

Three girls share their story about not fitting the mold due to their feelings of inadequacy stemming from the harmful effects of beauty standards and how they overcome it.

Rose Colored Glasses

Filmmakers: Frida Ajanel (14), Aiyanna Randolph (15), Caper Ratchford (16)

A young girl meets a guy through social media and realizes that he has different expectations of her than she has of herself. This film follows the girl as she changes herself so that the guy will accept her, with interviews from young people who have experienced the male gaze and tried to change the status quo.

Work in Progress

Filmmakers: Claudia Shin (17), Olivia Smith (17), Lenny Vargas (16)

Four women in positions of power discuss the hardships and triumphs of working in politics, academia, business, and entrepreneurship.

Roses Through the Cracks

Filmmakers: Kimberly Ortiz (14), Nargis Fazili (15), Alexandra Abundez (15), Leonora Garcia (16)

Story about 4 immigrants within Los Angeles, conveying their stories about the challenges and struggles within the immigrant experience that can also birth moments of beauty. Though there do exist challenges faced by a majority of immigrants, the immigrant experience isn’t miserable but accompanied by lively and joyful moments. The film depicts a contrast embedded within the concept of this experience, sharing how the difficult and virtuous coexists.

ABOUT THE GIRLS' VOICES NOW PROGRAM:

Girls' Voices Now is a youth development program which empowers girls 14-18 from the greater Los Angeles area to find, develop, and use their voice for positive social change through filmmaking.

Girls' Voices Now is hosted by Women’s Voices Now - a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization which uses film to drive positive social change that advances women’s and girls’ rights.

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