Directed and produced by Boys and Gilrs Clubs of Peninsula. A visual poem about a young girl growing up amid struggle and violence, but finding strength and courage
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Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy
Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA.
Childhood is considered a precious commodity in this world. To relinquish this treasure at an early age is to give away one of the greatest privileges in life. In A Poem to Teenage Mothers the hard words of one adolescent parent beckons onto her peers not to lose such inno…