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Student Program One
Tuesday March 13, 5:30PM
Laemmles Music Hall 3
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Came Here Whole
USA, 2006, 12 min
Director: Mercedes Yolanda Cooper
Written By: Mercedes Yolanda Cooper
School: Columbia College Chicago
This intimate drama follows Lana (Leslie Gilliam) on her journey of spiritual cleansing as
she copes with being raped. The love from her fiancé Derek (Rolando Boyce) is not enough
to keep Lana from fantasizing about leaving. The pressure to get married pushes Lana to her
breaking point. But, the women she imagined would help her cross over actually save her.
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Miss Chinatown USA
USA, 2006, 25 min
Director: Kathy Huang
Written By: Kathy Huang
School: Stanford University
'Miss Chinatown, U.S.A.' follows a young woman as she competes in one of the nation’s
oldest ethnic beauty pageants. Through her experiences, we gain unique insight into an
individual who is wrestling with issues of identity as she matures into adulthood.
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Seventy Times Seven
USA, 2006, 6 min
Director: Charlotte Young Bowens
Written By: Charlotte Young Bowens
School: Washington Community College
A woman has a chance encounter with a son that she abandoned in a crack house
twenty years earlier.
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Transplant New Orleans to Texas
USA, 2006, 13 min
Director: Elizabeth Daggett
Written By: Elizabeth Daggett
School: University North Texas
Two extraordinary women who left New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina are learning
to redefine family and home.
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Stained Glass Ceiling
USA, 2006, 10 min
Director: Emily Andreas
Written By: Emily Andreas
School: University of Notre Dame
In the winter of 2006, two Notre Dame film students set out to find a Catholic woman
who wanted to become a priest. That woman refused to appear on camera, because as an
employee of the Church, she could be fired for her views without any legal recourse.
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The Common Sense Farm
USA, 2006, 12 min
Director: Kathleen Russell
Written By: Kathleen Russell
School: Vassar College
A communal Judeo-Christian religious group often referred to as a cult is revealed through
following a seventeen-year old woman through her wedding. This film explores the
community's religious goals--and the role of women and children in achieving them.
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Sticks & Stones
USA, 2006, 9 min
Director: Rehema Trimiew
Written By: Rehema Trimiew
School: Rochester Institute of Technology
“Sticks & Stones” directly addresses the psychological repercussions of racial and class
disparity in the American public educational system. Based on the filmmaker’s own
experiences this short film exposes the influence a teacher can bear on her student’s
abilities and the role parents can play in their child’s education.
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