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An Immigrant Girl's Journey
Lonny Stevens 2008
Categories: Shorts Film
1 picture Pictures
Run time: 22 min.

AN IMMIGRANT GIRL'S JOURNEY is a human interest docudrama chronicling three years, 1972 to 1975, in the life of a seven-year-old Filipino girl-child, Alexi Alcedo. Alexi is caught in the mix of her mother's quest to escape the squatters life of a Smokey Mountain, a 2000 acre mountain of garage, the largest waste dump site in the world, where people live, and the garbage is their source of livelihood. Mom wants out, something cleaner, the "good life" in America.

Mom, Dad, grandma "Malou" and step dad Floyd Gaines all play their part in creating the sound an feel of young Alexi's immigrant girl's journey.
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8:15 PM     Fri, Oct 10
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Lonny Stevens
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Frine Escalona
Lonny Stevens
 
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Alfrin Films
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Alex Marino
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