Girls Like Us

1997 American film

Girls Like Us

Directed by| Tina Di Feliciantonio
Jane C. Wagner
Produced by| Tina Di Feliciantonio
Distributed by| Women Make Movies

Release date

* January 1997 (1997-01) (Sundance)

Running time

| 60 mins
Country| United States
Language| English

Girls Like Us is a 1997 documentary film directed by Tina Di Feliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner. It follows the lives of four teenage girls of Philadelphia for four years. Girls Like Us was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.[1]

## Critical reception[edit]

Godfrey Cheshire of Variety magazine wrote, "If few films offer such rich human material in such succinct, balanced, nonpolemical form, fewer still are timely enough to serve as ideal conversation pieces for young women facing similar situations. Wagner and Di Feliciantonio's doc could prove as useful as it is intelligent."[2]

The film won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize for Documentary in 1997.[3] It was later aired on the PBS series POV. In 1997, Girls Like Us also took home a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Programming.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Girls Like Us". www.wmm.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
2. ^ Cheshire, Godfrey (Feb 3, 1997). "Girls Like Us". Variety. ProQuest 236266055.
3. ^ "Sundance Institute".
4. ^ "Girls Like Us | ITVS". itvs.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.

## External links[edit]

* Girls Like Us at IMDb
* Girls Like Us at Women Make Movies
* Girls Like Us at POV

Preceded by

Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

|  Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
1997  | Succeeded by

The Farm
tied with Frat House

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