06/18/2025
Proud to announce is the 2025 winner of the Shine Global Children’s Resilience Award for Documentary, presented at , where the film is having its world premiere
About the film:
In 2017, 41 young girls from a Guatemalan state-run children’s home were killed in a fire when their police guards refused to release them from a locked schoolroom. The event is emblematic of the wider epidemic of gender-based violence in Guatemala, and the spark that drives sisters Lesli and Lupe to action. Told from the perspective of young women who have survived and whose lives have been shaped by violence, the film documents efforts to rally the community to collective protest through art and performance, culminating in a vivid, raucous festival through the streets of Ciudad Peronia. Conveyed through a series of sensitive portraits of girlhood and creativity, Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson’s film is a powerful ode to the plight, power and resilience of girls.
Get tickets and info on screenings and free events at: https:// www.sheffdocfest.com/film/comparsa
Read more about the prize at: https://shineglobal.org/
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