Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Of Hopscotch and Little Girls

Marquise Lepage 1999 Canada Documentary color 52min French/English Betacam
For girls around the world, hopscotch is universal. Girls also like to talk about school, what they want to do when they grow up, who will they marry. But through poverty, perversion, spite, or superstition, adults shatter those dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labor, subjecting them to multilation and sexual abuse.

Director

Marquise Lepage

Other works by Marquise Lepage include the short "Your Country, My Country" (1993) featuring two kids of different colors, and the feature "The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blache"(1995) which presents the unknown legend of the pioneering filmmaker.

Marquise Lepage

Director: Marquise Lepage

Writer: Marquise Lepage

Producer: Nicole Lamothe, Marcel Simard and Monique Simard

Editor: Natacha Dufaux

CinematographerFrançois Vincelette

Stars: Archana Anand, Aminatou Bandé and Patralkh0a Chaterjee