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NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND EVERYWHERE
AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILM
DEAR THIRTEEN
An incisive and timely documentary, Dear Thirteen weaves together nine stories of thirteen-year-olds from across the globe. Video diaries and candid interviews reveal how global issues are shaping – and being shaped by – young people: gender identity, rising anti-Semitism, gun violence, and racial divisions. This empathetic portrait of a new generation goes beyond stereotypes of adolescence to capture the complexity of finding a way into adulthood today.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR DEAR THIRTEEN
“Equal parts funny and emotionally affecting…it’s a refreshing reminder in a world community that seems increasingly cynical. Dear Thirteen bravely suggests that looking back just might be the way ahead.” – Sumner Forbes, Film Threat
“Equal parts funny and emotionally affecting…it’s a refreshing reminder in a world community that seems increasingly cynical. Dear Thirteen bravely suggests that looking back just might be the way ahead.” – Sumner Forbes, Film Threat
The film is also now available for U.S. educational engagement at Grasshopper Films and on Projectr, which provides film access to public library card holders.
Official Website
https://www.dearthirteen.com/
Film Festivals Played
DOC NYC (World Premiere)
Cleveland Film Festival
Miami Film Festival
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
Chicago International Children's Festival
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (Winner AICEFF Award for Cross Cultural Fillmmaking)
Providence Children's Festival
Rocky Mountain Women's Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
Vail Film Festival
Indie Street Film Festival (Audience Award for Best Feature Film)
Official Website
https://www.dearthirteen.com/
Film Festivals Played
DOC NYC (World Premiere)
Cleveland Film Festival
Miami Film Festival
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
Chicago International Children's Festival
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (Winner AICEFF Award for Cross Cultural Fillmmaking)
Providence Children's Festival
Rocky Mountain Women's Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
Vail Film Festival
Indie Street Film Festival (Audience Award for Best Feature Film)
About the Director
Alexis Neophytides is a documentary filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work centers around community and how we find meaning in people and place. She is the co-creator, co-director and producer of Neighborhood Slice, a public television documentary series that tells the stories of longtime New Yorkers who've held onto their little corner of the city despite fast-growing gentrification. She produced and directed the series 9.99, for which she won a NY Emmy. Her first feature-length documentary, Dear Thirteen premiered at DOC NYC in 2022 and is distributed by Grasshopper Films and Journeyman Pictures. Her second feature, Fire Through Dry Grass, co-directed with Andres “Jay” Molina, documents Jay and his fellow Reality Poets’ art and activism inside their nursing home during the COVID 19 pandemic. FIRE premiered at BlackStar in 2023, where it won the jury award for best feature documentary, and was broadcast and is currently streaming on POV/PBS. Her work has been supported by ITVS, the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, IDA, Perspective Fund, Fork Films, the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Women’s Fund. She is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Grantee. Over the past decade Alexis has developed filmmaking programs, implemented curricula and taught students all around NYC, including The Video Lab at The New School, The TEAK Fellowship and OPEN DOORS. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA in Media Studies from The New School.
Alexis Neophytides is a documentary filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work centers around community and how we find meaning in people and place. She is the co-creator, co-director and producer of Neighborhood Slice, a public television documentary series that tells the stories of longtime New Yorkers who've held onto their little corner of the city despite fast-growing gentrification. She produced and directed the series 9.99, for which she won a NY Emmy. Her first feature-length documentary, Dear Thirteen premiered at DOC NYC in 2022 and is distributed by Grasshopper Films and Journeyman Pictures. Her second feature, Fire Through Dry Grass, co-directed with Andres “Jay” Molina, documents Jay and his fellow Reality Poets’ art and activism inside their nursing home during the COVID 19 pandemic. FIRE premiered at BlackStar in 2023, where it won the jury award for best feature documentary, and was broadcast and is currently streaming on POV/PBS. Her work has been supported by ITVS, the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, IDA, Perspective Fund, Fork Films, the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Women’s Fund. She is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Grantee. Over the past decade Alexis has developed filmmaking programs, implemented curricula and taught students all around NYC, including The Video Lab at The New School, The TEAK Fellowship and OPEN DOORS. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA in Media Studies from The New School.
Image ID 1: Poster for Dear Thirteen with a photo of a Black girl in a yellow dress wearing headphones and holding a cell phone. Handwritten text reads “Dear Thirteen.”
Image ID 2: Photo of a Black boy with short braids and glasses silhouetted against a pink background with crisscrossing strobe lights.
Image ID 3: A white, blonde girl sits on a hospital bed looking off to the side. She dressed in a blue tank top and jeans. On the wall is bunch of colorful hospital equipment and wires.
Image ID 4: A group of boys in red soccer uniforms run straight toward the camera.
Image ID 2: Photo of a Black boy with short braids and glasses silhouetted against a pink background with crisscrossing strobe lights.
Image ID 3: A white, blonde girl sits on a hospital bed looking off to the side. She dressed in a blue tank top and jeans. On the wall is bunch of colorful hospital equipment and wires.
Image ID 4: A group of boys in red soccer uniforms run straight toward the camera.
