Twelve
Description
If you could go back and speak to your 12-year-old self, what would you say? Through this documentary short, Philippine-born filmmaker Lester Alfonso attempts to answer this question by interviewing twelve diverse subjects, each of whom moved to Canada at age 12, like himself.
Runtime
44 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2008
Database
Alexander Street
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