Premiere of Ann Fessler's "A GIRL LIKE HER"

The New England premiere of Ann Fessler’s (Professor, Photography) documentary film “A GIRL LIKE HER” will take place on Saturday, August 11, at 2:00PM, in the Metcalf Auditorium during the Flickers-Rhode Island International Film Festival. The festival takes place in venues across the city August 7-12. Read more at: RIIFF website at: and on the A GIRL LIKE HER website: http://agirllikeher.com

“A Girl Like Her” Ann Fessler’s haunting group portrait of women who surrendered their children for adoption in the 1950s and ’60s juxtaposes their voices with stock archival images from an era when wrenching human drama was buried beneath airbrushed images of family and sexuality. –THE WASHINGTON POST, “Ten movies not to miss at Silverdocs” by Ann Hornaday