'5 Girls' Clip: Teen LGBT issues, coping with divorce

An excerpt from '5 Girls', a film by Kartemquin Films.
Unlike the myriad reports, books and "specials" that focus on young women as passive and powerless, 5 Girls explores the ways girls discover the resources necessary to successfully navigate the rocky waters of adolescence. For two years, filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five strong young women between the ages of 13 and 17. It focuses on the positive ways girls learn to adapt to challenge in their lives by understanding and exercising choices, by believing in their strength when others do not and by resisting powerful cultural messages, which urge them to be silent.

"This ambitious documentary offers moving, detailed portraits of five young women."

—-Ron Wertneimer, The New York Times

"Finitzo elicits an amazing degree of candor from her subjects. 5 Girls offers a revealing portrait of a new girl. It's one we've seen little of in mainstream media."

—-Marisa Guthrie, The Boston Herald

"...an important contribution to the national consciousness about adolescent girls because it breaks the all too common stereotypes."

—-Norine J. Johnson, Ph.D., President, The American Psychological Association

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