Game Girls

  • Game girls
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2018
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)

Skid Row in Los Angeles is the infamous ‘homeless capital' of the USA. Anyone who is trying to learn the rules of the game and survive here has a really tough time, as the stories of the two protagonists of this film, Teri and Tiahna, reveal. Life for this lesbian couple is a constant round of prison, alcoholism and drug peddling, but there is hope, too. Their biographies are typical for the lives of Afro-American women living on the edge of American society. During a workshop initiated by the filmmaker for women in this community, they address their memories and their traumas and embark on a process of transformation during which they come into view as self-determining subjects rather than as victims. Social protests against homelessness in the neighbourhood, or the ‘Black Lives Matter' campaign are just as much a part of their lives as is the matter-of-fact way in which they choose to live as lesbians, or their bitter struggle with the authorities for their own four walls.
The film's intimate, observational camerawork helps tell the story of two women who manage to escape Skid Row but who are nonetheless bound by the constraints of their environment. (Berlinale 2018)

Written and directed by
Alina Skrzeszewska
Assistant Director
William Shepherd
Director of Photography
Alina Skrzeszewska
Editor
Emmanuelle Baude
Sound Design
Nans Mengeard, Pierre Armand
Post-production Supervisor
Jérôme Nunes
Production Management
Hélène Colombié
Post Production
Nora Bertone
Commissioning Editor
Doris Hepp
Producer
Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Co-Producers
Meike Martens, Kelly Parker
Co-production
ZDF/Arte, Mainz
Studio Lemon, Marseille

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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