Potential Underwriters
Hello,
We want to share with you the rare opportunity to help sponsor/underwrite our limited series Girl Unscripted or advise us regarding groups that might be interested. Whether you are looking to spark a conversation about Behavioral Health, Foster Care, Anger, Self-Harm, Teen Relationships, or other topics, Girl Unscripted provides an inside look at the lives of girls from St. Joseph and Kansas City, MO as they grow from 12-15-year-olds into young women of 22-25. Please review the following information and get back with me if you have interest.
Thank you,
Eric Keith
Producer
Girl Unscripted
917.407.8367
GIRL UNSCRIPTED
10 years in the lives of 17 girls; their stories in their own words.
Over the course of ten years, award-winning filmmaker Tara Veneruso offered seventeen girls a chance to express themselves. Anything was fair game…hopes, dreams, sex, parents, mean girls, children, drugs, abuse. From early teens to early twenties, their lives were laid bare on their terms.
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
As a survivor of physical, sexual, and drug abuse, Tara felt a need to reach out to the girls she saw dealing with many of the same problems that she faced years before. The perfect framework was a summer filmmaking camp for girls that would give them an outlet to discover themselves, a forum to tell stories, and a chance to understand their worth.
Once the summer was over and the floodgates of self-expression were open, Tara met with her former students to talk about their experiences with the camp and beyond. It was during these quiet, intimate exchanges that the cameras began to roll. They went through the same process the next year.
Inspired by the tales of personal growth over two summers, the filmmaker returned ten years later to see where the young women ended up, for better or worse. What lessons did they learn from their time with Tara, and what lessons will they pass on to the next generation?
A LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
So much rich material was captured on film, and it depicted life circumstances as unique and diverse as the girls themselves. Rather than trying to tell one kind of story about one kind of girl, Tara and the production team opted to group comparable accounts into installments.
EPISODE 1 AT-RISK GIRL
Tara spends time with a troubled pre-teen named Jessie, whose inability to process her unthinkable history has bounced her between foster homes and living on the street.
EPISODE 2 FAMILY GIRL
The girls who live with their families don’t necessarily have it much easier, as we learn from Jenny and Clarissa’s run-ins with the law and from Rachel D.’s struggle to manage a behavioral health diagnosis she shares with her mother.
EPISODE 3 FOSTER GIRL
Life in foster care is front-and-center in the stories shared by girls such as Pearl and Reanna, whose brushes with abuse led both of them down the dark path of suicidal ideation.
EPISODE 4 MAD GIRL
The complications of life as a young woman in modern America can turn someone like Jenny into a bully who lashes out at others, and it can just as easily inspire someone like Clarissa to lash out at herself.
EPISODE 5 THE BOYS
Far too many girls like Rachel D. don’t get to experience the flowers and chocolates of young love, they need to endure the lasting mental scars born of sexual abuse.
EPISODE 6 GROWNUP GIRL
The cycle continues as the young women sit down with their mentor who encourages them to give advice to their younger selves, eliciting moving words of wisdom from the likes of the once-abandoned Crista, and the out-and-proud Rachel M.