CNU Women's Film Festival Highlights the Contemporary
Immigrant Experience
“My American Girls” Captures Bittersweet Drama of Immigrant Parents And Native-Born Daughters as
They Pursue the American Dream
News Release - March 12, 2009
Media Contacts:
Lori Jacobs
University Relations
lori.jacobs@cnu.edu
(757) 594-7961
The Christopher Newport University Women’s Film Festival will present a screening of “My American Girls,” an intimate portrait of the contemporary immigrant experience, Thursday, March 19 at 7 pm. at CNU’s Ferguson Center for the Arts Music & Theatre Hall. The screening is free and open to the public. No reservation is required.
“My American Girls” captures the joys and struggles during the course of a year in the lives of the Ortiz family, first-generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic. This funny and touching film details the costs and rewards of pursuing the American Dream; highlighting the hard-working parents, who imagine retiring to their rural homeland and their American-born daughters, caught between their parent's values and their own.
This film will be introduced by Dr. Deanna Carpenter, a member of CNU’s Psychology Department and an open forum discussion about the film and its themes will immediately follow the screening. The Women’s Film Festival is sponsored by CNU and the award-winning documentary series, POV (Point of View). For more information, please visit the film festival’s website at http://english.cnu.edu/wgfilm.html or contact Professor Roberta Rosenberg at rrosenb@cnu.edu.
Christopher Newport University is a four-year public university in Newport News, Virginia. CNU enrolls 5,000 students in rigorous academic programs through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Joseph W. Luter III College of Business and Leadership and offers great teaching, small classes and an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor. Visit us at www.cnu.edu.