Description

This uplifting documentary helps give us hope that young Muslim girls might just have a chance for a better future. Three Yemeni teenage girls enter a youth Middle Eastern entrepreneurial competition, with their innovative solar-panel powered devices, designed to compensate for the frequent electrical grid outages in their country.

Luckily, their unusually open-minded parents “support” the girls’ ambitions, despite community pressure not to allow their daughters to pursue non-traditional female vocations. Along the way, the girls encounter the hardships of a country scarred by a broken educational system, joblessness, and a threatening Al-Qaeda presence.

Synopsis written by Kathy Goll

Tickets may be purchased online until 4pm on Friday Nov 13. We will have plenty of tickets available at the Little Theatre’s box office starting at 5pm.

Our community partner for Yemeniettes is Geve Theater Center in Rochester, NY Click to learn about Geva Theate

Director's Bio

Shawn David Thompson was born in 1967 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, USA. He is an editor and actor, known for Shotgun Wedding (2003), West from North Goes South (2004) and Flypaper (2005).

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