30 Mar 2024

Girls State: Imagining a world run by young women

From Saturday Morning, 10:35 am on 30 March 2024

Photo: Apple TV

Filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss's creative partnership spans two decades, winning them Emmy awards and several prizes at Sundance.

Their latest documentary Girls State follows teenage girls from Missouri navigating a week-long immersive democratic experiment, learning how to build a government from the ground up. Girls State airs on Apple TV from April 5.

It serves as a companion  to their 2020 film Boys State which followed a similar experiment.

They also directed The Mission, about American Christian missionary John Chau who was murdered when he tried to contact and convert one of the most remote tribes in the world on North Sentinel Island.