Carissa Phelps graduated with a law degree and an MBA from UCLA. When she was 12, she was homeless and forced into prostitution.

Last year, Carissa Phelps 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. This documentary short takes us on Carissa’s inspirational journey.

“Carissa” has won jury prizes at several film festivals and was featured in USA Today and on Good Morning America. 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.

Carissa

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Carissa

Release Year: 2008

Duration: 23 min

Availability: Worldwide

Related: History, Life & Culture, Women's Issues

Last year, Carissa Phelps 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. This documentary short takes us on Carissa’s inspirational journey.

“Carissa” has won jury prizes at several film festivals and was featured in USA Today and on Good Morning America. 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.

Produced & Directed by

David Sauvage

Producers

Carissa Phelps

Chad Troutwine

Executive Producers

David Guggenheim

Jamie McCourt

Cinematography by

Jonathon Narducci

Edited by

Aaron McAdams

Original Music

Justin Melland

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