Director: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Run Time: 39 minutes
Language: English
Screening: Sunday Feb. 10, 2013, 3PM
Held Auditorium
Q&A Producer Yael Melamede will join the audience for a Q&A session following the screening. Nishima Chudasama, associate producer of Girl Rising will also attend.
Synopsis: At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be thwarted by her life as an undocumented, homeless immigrant. The extraordinary sweep of color on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past – – punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, an alcoholic and defeated mother of four, an endless shuffle through San Diego’s overcrowded homeless shelters, and the constant threat of deportation. Neither sentimental nor sensational, Inocente will immerse you in the very real, day-to-day existence of a young girl who is battling staggering challenges. But the hope in Inocente’s story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.
A screening of 10 x 10 will precede Inocente:
10×10 is a feature film, Girl Rising, and a social action campaign, created and launched by an award-winning team of former ABC News journalists in association with The Documentary Group and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions. We use the power of storytelling and the leverage of strategic partnerships to deliver a single message: educating girls in developing nations will change the world.
