Directors/Producers: Mimi Chakarova, Lydia Chávez

Description:

A ten-year-old girl is determined to fix what's broken. The short documentary is a stop motion animation that offers a surprising look at our fragile world. 

Biography:

Mimi Chakarova covered global issues examining conflict, corruption and the sex trade. Her first film, The Price of Sex, a feature-length documentary on the trafficking of women, was awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. She was also the winner of the prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and a Dart Awards Finalist for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Chakarova went on to direct, shoot and produce five other feature-length documentaries and over thirty award-winning short films. Chakarova is the founder and creative director of Still I Rise Films, a documentary series about resilience and rising above the odds. In 2021, she set up a fellowship program for women filmmakers and visual artists in need of support and mentorship. Chakarova's work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, London, CBS News' “60 Minutes,” CNN World, BBC World, Al Jazeera English, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., PBS' Frontline/World and the Center for Investigative Reporting, among others. 

Lydia Chávez is an emerita professor who taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism for twenty-nine years. She started as a reporter for the Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 1998, Chávez published The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action, which won the Leonard Silk Award. She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George magazine.

Contact Information:

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