[BHS etree] EVENTS: Summer Film Series for Teens @ PFA

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Pacific Film Archive presents
Screenagers: DOCUMENTS FROM THE TEENAGE YEARS
Tuesdays, July 11-August 29

The teenage state of being-poised between childhood and adulthood-has
a raw, compelling power. And all the films in this summer's
installment of Screenagers feature teens; the majority also involve
some level of collaboration between filmmakers and adolescents.
Pressures from parents, teachers, and peers, the tumult of emotions
as bodies and identities approach adulthood- these are the stuff of
the teen years, and this series represents them unadorned by
sentimentality and stereotypes.

TUESDAY JULY 11
7:30  Rockaway
Mark Street (U.S., 2005, 74 mins)
Mark Street in Person. Street's evocative, improvisational feature
captures the anxieties and dreams of three high school girls from
Rockaway, Queens.

TUESDAY JULY 18
7:30  Thirteen
David Williams (U.S., 1997, 87 mins)
In David Williams's lyrical mother-daughter story, an African
American girl abruptly leaves home; while family and friends search
for her, she goes on an inner search of her own.

TUESDAY JULY 25
7:30  Our Song
Jim McKay (U.S., 1999, 96 mins)
The high-stepping, drum-beating, horn-blowing rhythms of a marching
band are a source of stability and hope for three teenage girls at
difficult turning points in their lives.

TUESDAY AUGUST 1
7:30  Chain Camera
Kirby Dick (U.S., 2001, 84 mins)
Students at a Los Angeles high school were given video cameras, with
no limitations or guidelines other than to record their lives.

TUESDAY AUGUST 8
7:30  Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke (U.S., 2003, 100 mins)
Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed (who, at age 13, cowrote the script)
are junior high girls pushing their limits in Catherine Hardwicke's
raw, intelligent drama.

TUESDAY AUGUST 15
7:30  Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
Ellen Spiro, Karen Bernstein (U.S., 2004, 68 mins)
A documentary made in collaboration with Girl Scout Troop 1500 of
Austin, Texas, which meets monthly at Hilltop Prison with a mission
"to strengthen the bond between girls and their incarcerated mothers
in order to break the cycle of crime."

TUESDAY AUGUST 22
7:30  Seventeen
Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines (U.S., 1983, 120 mins)
This controversial 1983 documentary is a candid depiction of the life
and times of working-class teens in Muncie, Indiana.  An absorbing
real-life drama and a study of the nuances of racism.

TUESDAY AUGUST 29
7:30  a.k.a. Don Bonus
Sokly "Don Bonus" Ny, Spencer Nakasako (U.S., 1995, 73 mins)
Spencer Nakasako in Person. Sokly Ny (a.k.a. Don Bonus), an
eighteen-year-old Cambodian refugee living with his family in San
Francisco, was assisted by San Francisco filmmaker Spencer Nakasako
in making this compelling documentary about his struggles to get by
in school and in life. With short Who I Became (Spencer Nakasako,
Michael Siv, U.S., 2003, 18 mins), in which a young Cambodian
American takes us on a guided tour of his world, from the Tenderloin
to the Alemany Housing Projects.

PFA Theater: 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch, Berkeley, CA
Info: (510) 642-1124    Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249
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