Wednesday,
August 15 at 7pm
Scribe
Video Center Producer's Forum
Rosita
dir.
Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, USA/Nicaragua, 2006, video,
55 mins, English and Spanish w/ English subtitles
 Directed
by award-winning filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater,
Rosita traces a young girl's journey from innocent
victim to unwitting victor. In January 2003, news spreads throughout
Central and South America that a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl
has become pregnant as the result of a rape. Rosa or Rosita,
as the girl becomes known in the press, is the only child of
illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica as coffee
pickers at the time of the assault. Fearing for their daughter's
life and mental health, Rosa's parents are determined to obtain
an abortion for their child.
The
film reveals the machinations of politicians, doctors, and clergymen,
but shields the young protagonist from the camera. Yet Rosa
is at the heart of the film, revealing herself and her world
through her own words and drawings. Rosita has screened
internationally on public television, premiered at the SilverDocs
Film Festival, toured as part of the Human Rights Watch Film
Festival and received a Cine Golden Eagle. Regardless of this
acclaim the film has yet to receive a national broadcast in
the United States.
About the filmmakers
- Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
have worked together since 1990, making award-winning documentaries
for national and international broadcast. Their film Maggie
Growls, was an ITVS-produced biography of Gray Panther
founder Maggie Kuhn, was awarded the Henry Hampton Award for
Excellence in Film & Digital Media from the Council on Foundations
in 2004. Other broadcast documentaries by Attie and Goldwater
include I Witness: Shot Down in Pensacola; Landowska:
Uncommon Visionary and Motherless.
Producers'
Forums are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts,
Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts and the Independence Foundation.
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