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INOCENTE (WEBSITE: Inocentedoc.com) <br />In San Diego, a young teenage girl's eyes stare Into a compact mirror. She paints a dramatic black swirl <br />around her eye. She never knows what her day will bring, but she knows at least it will always begin with <br />paint. <br />INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist's fierce <br />determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. <br />At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her fife as an undocumented <br />immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its <br />extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past — — a past <br />punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, an alcoholic and defeated mother of four who once <br />took her daughter by the hand to jump off a bridge together, an endless shuffle year after year through <br />the city's overcrowded homeless shelters and the constant threat of deportation. <br />Despite this history, Inocente's eyes envision a world transformed...where buildings drip in yellow and <br />orange, where pink and turquoise planets twinkle with rescued dreams, and one -eyed childlike creatures <br />play amongst loved babies and purple clouds. Inocente's family history is slowly revealed through her <br />paintings. <br />Told entirely in her own words, we come to Inocente's story as she realizes her life is at a turning point, <br />and for the first time, she decides to take control of her own destiny. Irreverent, flawed and funny, she's <br />now channeling her irrepressible personality into a future she controls. Her talent has finally been noticed, <br />and if she can create a body of work in time, she has an opportunity to put on her first art show. <br />Meanwhile, her family life is at a tense impasse — — if she legally emancipates herself from her mother to <br />strike out on her own, she'll risk placing her brothers in foster care, but to stay is unbearable. <br />INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the <br />new face of homelessness in America, children. Neither sentimental nor sensational, INOCENTE will <br />immerse you in the very real, day -to -day existence of a young girl who is battling a war that we rarely see. <br />The challenges are staggering, but the hope in Inocente's story proves that the hand she has been dealt <br />does not define her, her dreams do. <br />In San Diego, a young teenage girl's eyes stare into a compact mirror. She paints a dramatic black swirl <br />around her eye. She never knows what her day will bring, but she knows at least it will always begin with <br />paint. <br />INOCENTE Is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist's fierce <br />determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. <br />At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented <br />immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its <br />extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past — — a past <br />Dunctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse. an alcoholic and defeated mother of four who once <br />