"I Want My Own Room" - an Alisa Siegel documentary
Sophie and Faye, two sisters, 7 and 9, share a bedroom. And they both want out. They have launched a campaign to make it happen.
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A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf nailed the title. And since then, generations of women have openly expressed that yearning for private space - from the powerful to the downtrodden - from the old to the young. Even the very, very young.
Take Sophie and Faye. Two sisters, 9 and 7. They share a bedroom. And they both want out.
"I Want My Own Room" is the story of their campaign to make it happen.
Our documentary was produced by Alisa Siegel.
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Sophie's letter
Faye's letter
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