NETWORK | Independent

TYPE | Feature Documentary

ROLE | Production Assistant

SYNOPSIS | SOME GIRLS is a feature documentary that explores issues of identity within the Latina-American community by focusing on a group of troubled teenage girls in a Bronx-based suicide prevention program who feel rejected by mainstream America, but are transformed through an exploration of their roots, followed by a trip to the seat of the Americas. At the time of filming, Latina teens had the highest suicide and suicide ideation rates in America. Nationally, one in seven Latina teenagers will attempt suicide. According to the CDC, Latina-American teens generally attempt suicide at rates far greater than their non-Hispanic counterparts in New York City. As the documentary unfolds, the film’s protagonists begin to develop a curiosity about where their ancestors come from. Ostensibly, they are Dominican, Puerto-Rican, Central and South American. However, Latinxs, being the genetic circumstance of the Columbus arrival to the New World, are more than what meets the eye. And, by reconsidering American history from the point of view of the hunted, rather than the hunter, SOME GIRLS challenges the whitewashed accounts taught to children across the nation.

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