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A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl

A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl

WHAT A TWELVIE!

2017 · 20 min · Documentary

This is a film about 12-year-old girls, made by 12-year-old girls, for 12-year-old girls, or anyone that has been a 12-year-old girl, or will be a 12-year-old girl, or wishes they were a 12-year-old girl. This inquisitive cross between a documentary and a theatre piece was created by Tilda Cobham-Hervey and twelve 12-year-old girls, where real girls articulate what they hope for, what they remember and what it feels like to be twelve. Performing themselves in a filmed field guide, together these specimens investigate their own species.

Directed by Tilda Cobham-Hervey · Written by Tilda Cobham-Hervey

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