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THANKS, it’s been a great year for A GIRL LIKE HER!

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Thanks for a Great Year!

As we near the end of 2013, I want to thank all of the moms who have
allowed me to use their voices in “A GIRL LIKE HER”. Thanks to all of
the audience members who turned out for screenings and to the writers
 and critics who have spread the word.
 
      Check out the new piece by Dan Schindel written for
      NONFICS: REAL STORIES, REAL INSIGHT
      The Doc Option: Before ‘Philomena’ Watch ‘A Girl Like Her’    
      http://nonfics.com/doc-option-philomena-watch-girl-like/
 
 In 2013 your voices were heard in the US, Spain, England, Korea, Israel, Sweden, and 21 cities in Poland.
 

Select Screening Highlights for 2013 

7th International Conference, AFIN Childhood and Families Research Group, Pontevedra, Spain, Nov. 23, 2013
 
Real Art Ways Cinema, Hartford Connecticut, November 9, 2013
Sponsored by Access Connecticut
 
Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, 21st Annual Conference, Austin, Texas,
November 9, 2013
 
Idaho State University, Nov 7, 2013
Sponsored by the Anderson Gender Resource Center
                       
The Foundling Museum, London, England, UK Premiere – October 24, 2013
Screening concurrent with the exhibition “Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and
Loss” , curated by Susan Bright, Oct 11- January 5
 
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang City, Korea,
October 19 and 23, 2013
 
Utopia Film Festival, Greenbelt, Maryland, October 20, 2013
 
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, October 8, 2013
 
UR-Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company
Broadcast — September 17, 2013
 
Heart-2-Heart Firstmother Retreat, Boston, August 24, 2013 
 
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Walhalla, MI, August 8, 2013
 
Denver Film Society – DocNight, Sie Film Center, Denver, CO, June 13th, 2013
 
Special New York Screening, The Century Club, New York, June 11, 2013
Sponsored by The Donaldson Adoption Institute in celebration of the new “Lynn Franklin Fund*
 
DocAviv – International Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, 
May 3, 7 and 8, 2013
 
University of Illinois, Screening and Discussion with Director, Springfield, IL,
March 21, 2013
 
WATCH DOCS Traveling International HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
which traveled throughout Poland in 2013
Tarnowskie Góry, March 13, 2013
Żywiec, April 11, 2013
Toruń, April 17, 2013
Oświęcim, April 18, 2013
Cieszyn, April 23, 2013
Jawor, May 18, 2013
Olsztyn, May 26
Słupsk, May 22, 2013
Bielsko-Biała, May 24, 2013
Kielce, June 8, 2013
Zielona Góra, June 13, 2013
Suwałki,  Sept 20-21, 2013
Mrągowo, Sept 26-27, 2013
Sanok, Oct 14, 2013
Krakow,  Oct 19, 2013
Gorzów Wielkopolski, Oct 21, 2013
Katowice, Oct 23, 2013
Szczecin, Oct 23, 2013
Rzeszów, Oct 25, 2013
Siedlce, Oct 26, 2013
Gdańsk, November 24, 2013
 
(For 2012 screenings see SCREENINGS above.)
 
 BE SURE TO CHECK BACK FOR 2013 SCREENINGS
(or sign up for auto-notices on the Home page).
Plans are underway for a screening in Boston (March) and Baltimore (April).
Details to come.

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A GIRL LIKE HER IS NOW AVAILABLE for purchase WORLDWIDE 

For residents of the US and CANADA: to purchase a DVD 
For “Home Use” or “Educational Use”  go to: Buy DVD on this site.
 
Residents of all other countries: to purchase a copy of A GIRL LIKE HER go to:  
Journeyman Pictures
(Available in Europe on DVD, download and Pay for View– see Journeyman site for details )
 
 
Critical Praise for A GIRL LIKE HER:
 “The movie speaks quietly but powerfully for human dignity. A Girl Like Her packs
an emotional wallop greater than most other films released this year, 
documentary or fiction.” —Dan Schindel, OTSTE
 
“A Girl Like Her, Ann Fessler’s quietly devastating documentary … offers a
sociologically rich and important deconstruction of a devastating double
social standard that was in effect in those days. In revealing the painful legacy 
that permanently impacted so many mothers, Fessler has finally and respectfully
given them a voice.” —Geneva Anderson, Art Hound
 
“A Girl Like Her, Ann Fessler’s haunting group portrait of women who surrendered
their children for adoption in the 1950s and ’60s juxtaposes their voices with stock
archival images from an era when wrenching human drama was buried beneath
airbrushed images of family and sexuality.”— Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
 
(See more reviews under REVIEWS above.)

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