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GOING ON 13
You can't staya little girl forever
From Tweety Bird to Bow Wow, double dutch to chat rooms, Daddy's girls to first deceptions, watch as Ariana, Isha, Rosie, and Esme let go of childhood and fumble — or sprint — toward an uncertain future. This is puberty and for each of these girls of color, it’s a whirlwind of change and new choices. Without flinching, GOING ON 13 enters their world as they negotiate the precious, precarious moments between being a little girl and becoming a young woman.
"In the spirit of documentary greats like Seven Up! and Hoop Dreams" — TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
" star star star star A rare and frequently inspiring close-up on girls who are at an age that is usually quite impenetrable to adults." — TIME OUT NEW YORK
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan & Dawn Valadez director/producer/writer
Ariana, Esmeralda, Isha, Rosie cast (themselves)
J Clements executive producer
Corey Ohama, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan editors
Elizabeth Finlayson consulting editor
Gerry Watson director of photography
Dan Cantrell composer
Adam Cohen, Eriq Wities & Daniel Yaffe animation
Sara Porto Nolan associate producer
Jeremiah Moore re-recording mixer
Gary Coates color grader
Video Arts online facility
BUMP Records original music
additional camera
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Kara Herold
Gina Leibrecht
Jamie Meltzer
Anjali Sundaram
Dawn D. Valadez
animation
Open Content/
Adam Cohen
Eriq Wities
Daniel Yaffe
sound recording
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Dawn D. Valadez
assistant editors
Jonathan Archer
Charity B. Ellis
Dafna Kory
Sheng Wang
text artist
José Luis González
additional composition
David Satori
live musicians
Dan Cantrell
Kristina Forester
David Satori
interns
Crystal Alexander
Claire Carlson-Jones
Sara Deneweth
Summers Henderson
Anna-Lena Isaksson
Nick Lawson
Jeff Schiller
Sheng Wang
Lindsey Waters
David Zubkis
online editor
Jesse Spencer
closed captioning
Pillar to Post
transcription & translation
Reina Glazener
Pratima Raghava
Megalina Soberanes
Jaime Omar Yassin
photos courtesy of
Chela Shanti Will Waghorn Ariana, Esmeralda, Isha & Rosie
bookkeeper
Douglas Conrad
legal
Alan Korn
rights and clearances
The Rights Workshop
advisors
Children NOW
Girls Inc. of Alameda Co.
New Moon Magazine
Carol Cassidy
Suzanne Cockrell
Cynthia Garcia-Coll
Tina DiFeliciantonio
Eileen Espejo
Wendy Ettinger
Sarah Feinbloom
Pat Ferrero
Leslie Fields-Cruz
Kathryn Galan
Abigail Ginzberg
Prudence Glass
Rick Goldsmith
Nancy Gruver
Judith Helfand
Ken Ikeda
Beth Janson
Vivian Kleiman
Sharon Lamb
Lexi Leban
Pat Loomes
Karen Lum
Octavio Marin
Julie Benello Parker
Ted Purves
Sean Shodahl
Gail Silva
Llewllyn Smith
Jamie Stobie
Barrie Thorne
Rick Tejada Flores
Ray Telles
Mia Trachinger
Jane Wagner
Niobe Way
Robert West
Sharon Wood
production support
APEN
Bay Area Video Coalition
Creative Capital Professional Development Program
DocuMamas of 2005
Mass MOCA
National Association of Latino Independent Producers
PBS Producer's Academy
ProArts Gallery
Sundance Producer's Conference
Tribeca Film Institute, All Access Program
Trust Your Struggle
Ucross Foundation
Working Films
fiscal sponsor
Film Arts Foundation
special thanks
The families and friends of Ariana, Isha, Rosie & Esmeralda
The faculty and administration of the Berkeley, Emeryville & Oakland Unified School Districts:
Anakarita Allen
Ramonda Bishop
Ryan Chinn
Hillary Chentow
Bill Compton
Nicole Crosby
Kathy Crow
Doug Dohrer
Ingrid Eliasson
Jeb Evans
Francessca Farley
Sonia Flemming
Michael Flushman
Tonalyn Ford
Brad Fox
Steve Hambright
Mary Hurley
Coral Johnson
Linda McClusky
James McRay
Mark Miller
Donovan Moretz
Joyce Pinkney
Kelly Rash
Ruthie Ruffin
Melissa Sackett
Michelle Slate
Anthony Smith
Ana Raquel Thomas
Aaron Townsend
Dawn Turner
Laura Turner
Pam Zimmerman
Aram Ethan Adajian
Robert Arnold
Robert Bahar
Andrew Bigler
The Bigler family
Amanda Bloom
Nelida Bloom
Joel Bowen
Jonathan Blum
Jon Wellington Bowler
Almudena Carracdeo
Lisa Carroll
Robert W. Collins
Desideria D. Dalton
Juan Devis
Margo Dunlap
Vanessa Flynn
Christian Frock
Paul Ginocchio
Gary Goddard
Linda Gonzalez
Carolina Gonzalez
Mario Hernandez
The Hill & Guevara families
Davia Hood
Wanda Irish
J Bradley Johnson
Sangita Kumar
Omar Lee
The Lee & Ohama families
Dana Maya
Cathleen Micheaels
Constance Moore
Grace Moore
Louise Music
Madeline Music
Monica Nolan
Marilyn Nowell
Rose Padilla Johnson
Akbar Pasha
Laura Purdy
Carolyn Roundey
Jonathan Skurnik
Melissa Tenorio
Rigo Valadez-Bigler
Brianna Williams
Rebecka Wright
thank you to our funders
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The California Council for the Humanities’ California Stories Initiative
The Skirball Foundation
Chicken and Egg Pictures
The Women's Foundation of California
The City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program
The Pacific Pioneer Fund
The Fleishhacker Foundation
Alameda County Board of Supervisors
Open Meadows Foundation
thank you to our individual funders
Roberta Anderson
Jennifer Bell
Bess Bendet
Steve Bermen
James Best
William & Nancy Bigler
Andrew Bigler
Anne-Marie Booth
Jonathan Blum
Cynthia Brown
Sara Campos
Elsie (Kris) Casler
Michelle Cernuto
Cynthia Chavez
Yolanda Chrystal
Desideria Dalton
Cristi Delgado
Aja Couchois Duncan
Heidi Schmidt Emberling
Eileen Espejo & Oscar Cerna
Pat Ferrero
Dennis & Laura Flanagan
Richard & Audrey Flanagan
Robert & Joselyn Flint
Abigail Ginzberg
Rick Goldsmith
Linda Gonzalez
Rosendo Gonzalez
Maureen Gosling
Ruben Guevara
Scot & Robin Halpin
April Hamilton
Patrick & Jo Heller
Joyce & Floyd Hill-in memoriam
Jon & Dona Hill
Anne Irving
Booker & Joyce Jackson
Mario Jiminez
Sandra Lara
Sandra Levensaler
Meika Loe
Marie Lothrop
Erika Martinez
Constance Moore
Grace Moore
Howard & Jane Bond Moore
Rosemary Obeid
Felix Penn
Rhonda Ramirez
Karen Ransom
Susan Raudry
Kathleen Rice
Marti Roach
Jack Robbins
Henry Rosenthal
Carolyn Roundey
Ezra & Sabrina Weisz
Sandra Lee Sheffield
Francoise Spalding-Keller
Alicia Stiles
Daniel Sustaita
Marcia Toyohara
Mary Jo Williams
Bethtina Woodridge
Gerry & Paulette Zemlicka
co-produced and launched in association with
Chicken and Egg Pictures
The Fledgling Fund
Working Films
executive producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer