Girls at 12

Name: Girls at 12
Genre: Documentary, Shorts
Released: 1975
Duration: 30 min

United States / English / 1975 / 30m

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Synopsis

Made by Joyce Chopra in 1975 for the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, as part of the program The Role of Women in American Society, GIRLS AT 12 looks at the lives of three girls growing up near Boston in order to show the complexities of becoming a teenager in the midseventies and of society’s expectations of girls and women.

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Credits

Crew

DirectorJoyce Chopra

CinematographerJoan Weidman

EditorJoyce Chopra

ProducerJoyce Chopra

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