Game Girls, a Skid Row love story, follows Teri and her girlfriend Tiahana as they struggle to navigate life on the streets. Recently released from jail for selling drugs, Tiahna returns home to the streets to find Teri desperate to get out of the life and move on.
Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux in 2018Alina, William and Kelly filmed Game Girls over the course of three years in various stages. As part of the development process, we formed a creative arts workshop facilitated by PhD, RDT-BCT Mimi Savage. The Game Girls workshops met weekly in a street level venue open to all people who identify as women in the community. The workshops informed the documentary as a sounding board for ideas and themes, a few scenes of which are in the film. But beyond that a community was formed and a performance, called Rock Paper Scissors, emerged from the creative and healing work done in the workshops.
Producers Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Meike Martens, and Kelly Parker, Written and Directed by Alina Skrzeszewska, With Teri Rogers and Tiahna Vince, Director’s Assistant & Story Advisor William Shepherd, Editor Emmanuelle Baude, Sales Doc & Film International
French theatrical release on November 21, 2018, through Vendredi Distribution.
Press Variety, Peoples World, Into: A Black Queer Couple Navigates life on Skid Row, Moveable Fest, CineEuropa, Goethe Institute, Gay Essential, The Hollywood Reporter
Festivals 2018
Berlinale, World Premiere (Germany), Outfest, US Premiere (Los Angeles), Sheffield Doc Fest (England), Seoul International Women’s Film festival (South Korea), Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece), Image de Ville (France),
Gijon International Film Festival (Spain), Festival Dei Popoli, International Competition (Italy), Corsica.doc, Compétition nouveaux talents (France), FIFIB Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux (France), Winner Grand
Prize of the Jury, Filmfestival Kitzbühel (Austria), États Généraux du Documentaire de Lussas, Expérience du Regard (France),
Watch Docs, International Human Rights Film Festival (Poland), This Human World, International Human Rights Film Festival (Austria), Traces de vies, Regard documentaire hors frontières (France), Festival Chéries-Chéris (France)
