
#ChicagoGirl
USA/Syria/ 2013/74 Mins/English/Joe Piscatella
Suitability: Year 5-13
Themes: conflict, social action, identity, culture, social media, refugees
Curriculum Links: key competencies, social studies, science, media studies, English
Synopsis: From her bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, an American Arab teenage girl takes on the role of a revolutionary. Rather than traditional weapons of resistance, she uses social media to coordinate the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and camera phones, Ala’a Basatneh helps her social network ‘on the ground’ in Syria to brave snipers and shelling in the streets, allowing them to show the world the human rights atrocities of the Syrian dictator.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Wellington Roxy Cinema: Thursday 11 May | 10.00am & Friday 19 May 12.30pm
Auckland Q Theatre: Thursday 25 May | 10.00am & Friday 2 June 12.30pm