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Autumn's Eyes

Autumn's Eyes

By Gabriel Noble, Paola Mendoza

United States 59 minutes 2006 English
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Festivals
  • San Francisco Black Film Festival 2007 (San Fransisco, United States)
  • Urbanworld Film Festival 2007 (New York City, United States)
  • Bogota Film Festival 2006 (Bogota, Colombia)
  • New Jersey International Film Festival 2006 (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  • New York Latino International Film Festival 2006 (New York, United States)
  • South by Southwest Film Festival 2006 (Austin, United States)
  • SXSW Film Festival 2006 (Austin, United States)
  • Woodstock Film Festival 2006 (Woodstock, United States)

Synopsis

Autumn's Eyes is a compelling documentary about a 3-year-old girl who tries to navigate through the harsh reality of severe poverty, her teenage mother's incarceration, and looming foster care. Charming, obedient, and unable to fully comprehend the severity of her environment, Autumn is shielded from her own reality. Caught between the innocence of childhood and the growing necessity to be an adult, she represents hope to a family of women caught in the cyclical web of abuse, incarceration and poverty.

Autumn's Eyes captures this impressionable time in this child's life, and ask the greater question: is there truly hope for a child growing up in these circumstances? Through the perspective of a little girl, Autumn's Eyes explores this perilous state of hope.

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