Update!
"Radical Monarchs" won both the Best Documentary: Golden Space Needle Audience Award and the Youth Jury Prize for Best Films4Families Feature at SIFF.
If you missed it, here's your chance: They've added one more screening at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at SIFF Cinema Uptown in Seattle.
The documentary follows the founding and growth of the Radical Monarchs, an Oakland-based organization for young women of color at the front lines of social justice and allyship.
Two moms, Anayvette Martinez and Marilyn Hollinquest, founded the group as an alternative to Girl Scouts and other groups focused on young girls. They wanted their daughters to learn leadership and activism in a space dedicated to adolescent (ages 8-13) girls of color. Their mission also is based on (don't you love this?) "fierce inter-dependent sisterhood, self-love and hope."
Its members earn badges for accomplishments such as completing units on the environment, being an LGBTQ ally and disability justice.
The film follows the first troop of Radical Monarchs for more than three years.
The show is recommended for viewers ages 7 and older.
