Skyline College: Tamara Perkins Film Premier At Human Rights Watch Festival

San Bruno CA

24 May, 2022

2:43 AM

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Press release from Skyline College: May 20, 2022 Clarissa's Battle tells the story of single mother, caregiver, essential worker, and social justice warrior Clarissa Doutherd's fight for the dignity of all parents and children. She builds a powerful coalition to illuminate the lack of childcare, exacerbated by the global pandemic. They struggle for the rights of millions impacted globally, especially women of color. The film follows Clarissa's journey from Oakland to Washington D.C. as she battles for childcare and early childhood education, sparked by her own loss of childcare and housing. Equally riveting is the film's portrayal of the mental and physical health tolls paid by working mothers and the ways in which lockdown intensified their already desperate circumstances. In her latest documentary premiering in May at the Human Rights Watch Festival at NYC's Lincoln Center, Director|Producer and Skyline College Film Professor Tamara Perkins, asks the question – why do people fight so hard against funding resources that will allow parents to work, keep families off the streets, give children a chance at a productive future, and thus ultimately benefit every citizen in a community? WHERE TO SEE CLARISSA'S BATTLE st We Are Not Princesses The Judge 2021 Skyline College Stories of Transformation Film Festival This press release was produced by Skyline College. The views expressed here are the author's own.