A Field Guide to Being a 12 Year Old Girl is a delightful twenty minutes of twelve twelve-year-old girls impressing us as ambassadors for comprehending, honoring, celebrating, and thoroughly enjoying the complicated lives of twelve-year-old girls. Although each girl represents a varied series of thoughts and emotions with more questions than answers, the viewer listens to twelve chaotic notes transforming in to a single, impressive, joyful chorus. These treasures want to: “turn the whole world turquoise with hope” while wondering “what does love feel like?” We experience more joy than despair when a twelve year old innocently asks the eternal rhetorical question: “I thought I was just supposed to be me?”
If men want a short course on understanding women, this thoroughly entertaining study provides all one needs to know about how the elusive female experiences and interacts with the world around them. In the words of the wise preteens in their last whisper of childhood: “this film is about twelve-year-old girls, made by twelve-year-old girls and is for anyone who is a twelve-year-old girl, has been a twelve-year-old girl, will be a twelve-year-old girl or wishes to understand twelve-year-old girls”.
This writer would recommend aliens visiting earth to view the film in order to understand humankind of all ages!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
To view the film, visit ACTF website.
Photos courtesy of FLYING FILM FESTIVAL
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Dr. Renae Lapin, LMFT shares her expertise with readers of Picture this Post from the lens of a trauma specialist, drawing from her forty-year career as a Family Therapist. She has helped thousands of individuals and families achieve their goals towards a more satisfying life with greater fulfillment in relationships and less stress in navigating day to day life. Taking her expertise out of the therapy room and into her written reviews for Picture This Post, Dr. Renae aims to challenge you to think differently, inspire you to feel differently and support you in taking new actions as you move forward in your life.
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