California Documentary Project
“Going on 13,” a documentary film
by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez
Learn more about the filmmakers:
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez .
From Tweety Bird to Bow Wow, double dutch to chat rooms, Daddy's girls to first deceptions, watch as Ariana, Isha, Rosie, and Esme let go of childhood and fumble — or sprint — toward an uncertain future.
This is puberty and for each of these girls of color, it’s a whirlwind of change and new choices.
Without flinching, GOING ON 13 enters their world as they negotiate the precious, precarious moments between being a little girl and becoming a young woman.




