2008 Bel Air Film Festival presents documentary screening of

"Carissa" sponsored by GEM Shopping Network. 

Location:     The Charles Aidikoff Theater in Beverly Hills, CA

Screening:   "Carissa" Documentary Short

Event Date:  Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Event Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm

(25% of the proceeds will go to the Los Angeles Dodgers Dream Foundation)

Details of Event:

"Carissa" is a documentary short that tells the story of Carissa Phelps. Last year, Carissa graduated with both a law degree and an MBA from UCLA. But when she was 12, she was homeless and forced into prostitution in Fresno.

The film tells Carissa's inspirational story as we travel back with her to the places it happened. Carissa" has won jury prizes at four film festivals, including Best Documentary Short at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and was featured in USA Today and on Good Morning America.

It is directed by David Sauvage, a classmate of Carissa's at UCLA and son of documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage.

The film is also Executive Produced by Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director of "An Inconvenient Truth" and Jamie McCourt, Owner and President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and sponsored by Virgin Mobile and the Los Angeles Dodgers Dream Foundation.