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A long awaited Up-date and Check out our new site for GIRLS!!
By Dawn | February 9, 2010
Hi there,
It has been a while since Kristy or I posted anything. The last two years have been amazing! From film festivals to conferences and university screenings to getting on public television GOING ON 13 has been around town and around the country (and beyond).
The following things have happened since we last wrote:
Kristy and I were on the California Report with Scott Shafer (he is so cool).
Esme, Isha, Kristy and I went to the KGO studios to be on the radio with Gil Gross (he’s super cool too)!! Ariana called in. It was a fun show.
I got to meet one of the women in the film making and art making world that inspires me: Josefina Lopez! She is the founder of the Boyle Heights Latina International Film Extravaganza, yes, BHLIFE in East LA!!! They gave us the BEST DOC award! I was so proud to be with mis hermanas receiving the award. So many other fine film makers were there. It was truly my favorite film festival and a great way to end 2009!
Finally, we have been working for MONTHS on our GURLS TALK BACK site. A social networking site for girls and their allies. We have worked with Michelle Halsell of Missing Pixel, Mariela Donis & Kiku Johnson and their girls and young women of Girls Inc of Alameda County, and many others to create this site. We had a number of logistical and safety concerns to resolve and overall it was a lot tougher to pull off than we thought but it is up and running and ready for girls to join. Two of the young women that you met on this blog last summer, Katarina and Frances, have joined our team as the youth moderators of the GURLS TALK BACK site. They are doing a great job and will make sure that only girls and safe adults are on the site and that the discussions, pictures, videos, etc are fun, safe, engaging and appropriate but still REAL. PLEASE check it out and make sure to invite your favorite pre-teen girls to join!
The girls in the film are now young women–in college, working and making plans for their future. As a parent I know how quickly time flies and how our young sweet little babies turn into kids, then teens and then adults. It goes by super fast so don’t take a moment of it for granted. I can’t believe my son is 14. He’s still my baby but it is time to give him room to grow. When I started GOING ON 13 with Kristy my son was 4. Shocking I know. The film is a central theme in his life. I hope he remembers it fondly and appreciates the girls and women around him because of it. I think he does.
Both Kristy and I are still committed to doing outreach, promotion, screenings and distribution of the film. We are also working on other projects and living life with our much neglected families and friends. We could not have had the successful year in 2009 of outreach and distribution if not for our favorite Outreach Coordinator (I think she’s the QUEEN of all things outreach and distribution and other stuff too–just good people, you know?), EVA MOSS. She is seriously one of the most organized, level-headed women I have ever met–far wiser than her age. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Eva, please don’t ever leave us!
We are still available for screenings! Sorry I didn’t have pictures. I’ll try to add some later. thanks for all of your love, it really means a lot.
Keep in touch! Have a great 2010!
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