Film phase:Completed
SYNOPSIS
From Tweety Bird to Bow Wow, double dutch to chat rooms, Daddy’s girls to first deceptions, watch as Ariana, Isha, Rosie, and Esme let go of childhood and fumble — or sprint — toward an uncertain future. This is puberty and for each of these girls of color, it’s a whirlwind of change and new choices. Without flinching, Going on 13 enters their world as they negotiate the precious, precarious moments between being a girl and becoming a young woman.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s first feature-length film was an acclaimed documentary covering four years in the lives of four adolescent girls. Going on 13 was an official selection of Tribeca, AFIDOCS (formerly known as SILVERDOCS), and many other film festivals worldwide. It received funding from ITVS and was broadcast on public television in 2009. Kristy has also produced and directed several short films, including El Corrido de Cecilia Rios, winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Short Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, a chronicle of the violent death of 15-year-old Cecilia Rios. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Her most recent feature, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, traces the evolution and legacy of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. The film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2012 and was broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens series in 2013. Now an Assistant Professor at UCLA, Kristy holds a MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Her recent short, What Happened to Her, premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival wherein it received an Honorable Mention for best short.
NOW PLAYING
In 2008, Going on 13 was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival, winner of the Cine Golden Eagle Award, and winner at the La Femme Film Festival.