10x10 Presents Girl Rising (Official Trailer)

From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, award-winning Documentary Group, Vulcan Productions and Intel Corporation comes Girl Rising - an innovative new feature film about the power of education to change a girl -- and the world.

In theaters March 7th, 2013. Visit girlrising.com to learn how to bring Girl Rising to your local theater.

Girl Rising is distributed by CNN Films and Gathr, an innovative demand-based theatrical distributor. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez and other A-list actresses contribute voice performances to the film, which features original music from Academy Award winner Rachel Portman, in collaboration with Hans Zimmer.

The film spotlights unforgettable girls like Sokha, an orphan who rises from the dumps of Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer; Suma, who composes music to help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others; and Ruksana, an Indian "pavement-dweller" whose father sacrifices his own basic needs for his daughter's dreams. Each girl is paired with a renowned writer from her native country. Edwidge Danticat, Sooni Taraporevala Aminatta Forna and others tell the girls' stories, each in it's style, and all with profound resonance.

These girls are each unique, but the obstacles they faced are ubiquitous. Like the 66 million girls around the world who dream of going to school, what Sokha, Suma, Ruksana and the rest want most is to be students: to learn. And now, And now, by sharing their personal journeys, they have become teachers. Watch Girl Rising, and you will see: One girl with courage is a revolution.

"Skinny Love" by Birdy
"Shake It Out" by Florence + the Machine

http://www.girlrising.com

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[AnakarayaRavenclaw]

Yes it's true, men do get oppressed for certain reasons (as do women), however they don't get oppressed for being MEN do they?

You don't see boys being denied education for being a boy or a mother aborting or abandoning her child for being a boy or a family marrying their 9 year old son off to a 40 year old woman or a man making less than a woman simply because he is a man do you?

If you don't realize that women have suffered more oppression than men for just being women then you are blind.

[Gregor Bailar]

Or a girl from Crow Creek, South Dakota, or one from Vila Mimosa, Brazil or Iraq, or Chad, India, Congo, Indonesia, Mali, Yemen... unfortunately the list is very long. Girl Rising can't tell every story, but the amazing and representative stories it does tell can spark a discussion about girls getting educated everywhere. Each of us can take the next step, tell the stories we know and change things where we can each make a difference.

[brainiacJulya]

AMEN!

[TheGeorgieporgie411]

People may want to move to the USA but this country is turning into a communist country, all cuz of Obama

[martthesling]

Men get forced to join wars and die against their will. If you're an American I want you to sign up for the draft/selective service.. Until then you are a 1st class citizen and I am a 2nd class citizen,

[Faith Jones]

Saw this tonight! Loved it, it was so powerful

[Novakira Sato]

I'm starting to think most women believe rape is worse than being worked to death in labor camps.

[Novakira Sato]

Well the laws in the USA are designed to systematically re-allocate resources/benefits to women. The only "corrective measures" people like to take with womens issues is to first achieve equality—which is fair, and then keep the benefits coming until the women are in superior positions. Then abuse shows up.

Clearly the boys weren't worth mentioning in this high production documentation. I suppose it would lose it's emotional impact if people tried to care about the well-being of boys as well.

[Novakira Sato]

Both men and women struggle, but you'll never see a high production film like this about mens struggles.

[Haley Denton]

It's called Skinny Love, originally by Bon Iver and performed here by Birdy.