[van-announce] Joint Effort co-presents "Girl Trouble" at DOXA Documentary Film + Video Festival

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JOINT EFFORT
is co-presenting the film "Girl Trouble" at
DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival

Film Title: Girl Trouble (Lexi Leban/Lidia 
Szajko, USA, 74 min, director Lexi Leban in 
attendance)
Details: Friday, May 27, Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, 7:30pm.
Tickets: $9

How is it that young women comprise about one 
third of the young offenders population in the 
United States, but only receive 2% of support 
services? In Girl Trouble, girls tell their truth 
about juvenile justice and their search for 
support within a system designed to work against 
them.

Girl Trouble follows three young San Francisco 
women on the brink of adulthood over a four-year 
course. At the film's beginning they are 
wrestling with poverty, domestic violence, drug 
addiction and homelessness in their lives, and 
have already had contact with the juvenile 
justice system. Hope comes in the form of the 
Center for Young Women's Development, the first 
American employment, leadership, and advocacy 
program run entirely by and for girls who have 
been locked up and are trying to change their 
lives.

Girl Trouble is a film that takes a personal look 
at the reasons why teenage girls are entering the 
juvenile justice system in greater numbers and at 
younger ages, and why current corrections 
strategies are failing to stop the cycle of 
incarceration. It movingly depicts several bold 
and articulate young women who must negotiate a 
system that at the same time seeks to punish and 
rehabilitate those who come into contact with it.

DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival
Dates: May 24 - May 29, 2005
Times: Opening Screening, May 24, 7:30 pm at The Vogue,
Evening screenings at Pacific Cinémathèque at 
7:30 and 9:30 pm and matinees at various times.
Venues: The Vogue (opening screening only) and Pacific Cinémathèque
Tickets: $7 matinees / $9 evenings / $15 opening night available
at Bibliophile Bookshop, Videomatica
and Festival Box Office at 604.257.0366 or http://www.festivalboxoffice.com
Information: 604.646.3200 or http://www.doxafestival.ca

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ABOUT JOINT EFFORT
Joint Effort is a local women in prison support group, who organizes
weekly programs for women inside.  Joint Effort currently works with women
in the Allouette Correctional Centre for Women (Maple Ridge) and the
Fraser Valley Institution (BC Prison for Women) in Abbotsford.


For more information:

jointeffort at prisonjustice.ca
http://www.prisonjustice.ca/organizations/jointeffort.html
604-682-3269 x3019
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