Alexis Margolin

In 2006, thirteen year old Valley finds herself caught between her friends' wanton scheme to gain popularity and a teacher she believes to be trustworthy. As everyone around her wants to propel her into adulthood, Valley must decide where her morals lie.

An emotional short film showing how this addiction can end in tragedy unless help and awareness is given. This project aims to show that help is available to the people who believe they are alone in the world.

Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a generation of artists. In 1989 she started to film the leaders of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests who escaped to political exile following the June 4 massacre. Though Choy never finished that project, she now travels with the old footage to Taiwan, Maryland, and Paris in order to share it with the dissidents who have never been able to return home.