‘The Girl Who Knew Too Much’: See West Seattle filmmaker Amy Benson’s rough-cut work, free

West Seattle filmmaker Amy Benson is finishing a documentary focusing on an epidemic affecting girls and women half a world away – and inviting you to two rough-cut screenings here at home. The clip above is a trailer for her film, “The Girl Who Knew Too Much,” which began as the story of a teenage girl in Nepal poised to break free of a generations-old cycle of poverty, with a chance at a real education, and then took a different turn when the film’s subject fell victim to the suicide epidemic affecting childbearing-age women in her country. Benson’s screenings are both at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (4408 Delridge Way SW) – one week from today (November 18th) at 5 pm and on November 29th at 6 pm. Admission is free. Benson will engage in Q/A after next weekend’s screening, and there’s a panel discussion afterward on 11/29 (scheduled panelists are listed in the news release). Benson says, “This is a film about the big forces of globalization, and how they play out in the lives of the most vulnerable people … I am making this film because I think it can inform how we in the West try to help fight poverty in the developing world.”

2 Replies to "'The Girl Who Knew Too Much': See West Seattle filmmaker Amy Benson's rough-cut work, free"

  • BrassyMomma November 12, 2012 (1:18 am)

    Wow.

    One filmmaker to another – wow.

    I cant’t wait to see this movie. It’s a horrific thing that the most threatening idea around so much of the world is a woman with a high-functioning mind. Especially those who want to serve others.

    Thanks for the glimpse!

  • Holli November 12, 2012 (1:04 pm)

    Great work, Amy! I’m excited to catch the second screening:)

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