“What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?”
That is the motto of a documentary recently screened at Corpus Christi School for an audience of more than 60 fifth-grade girls and 30 parents. The film The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things, made by a group of women who traveled around the country to profile women in myriad careers, aims to open girls’ eyes to the many career possibilities available to them, even if the field is male dominated.
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“It really prompted a great discussion amongst everybody and it was a confidence-booster for the girls,” said principal Ryan Bushore of the screening that was followed by a Q&A with the film’s producer/director Sarah Moshman and producer Dana Michelle Cook.
“It was really neat to see what some of the kids’ reactions were and to hear them talk about the film in terms of different things happening in their own lives,” Bushore told the Palisadian-Post.
Bushore said he first saw the movie this past fall and immediately recognized it as something he wanted to show to the girls at his school—and ultimately the community as a whole.
At the Q&A, Bushore said students asked the filmmakers everything from who was the most impactful person they interviewed for the film to what were their biggest fears when they were in fifth grade.
Some of the mothers in attendance had questions too, including asking for advice on how to help push their daughters to strive for their goals and not hold themselves back.
For more information on The Empowerment Project visit indieflix.com/empowermentproject and ask yourself: What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?
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