ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the award-winning film and group support project titled Game Girls, which combined documentary filmmaking with drama/expressive therapy for sharing and healing the narratives of homeless women on Skid Row, Los Angeles, over a period of two years. The documentary transformed the lives of those who invested in it, both those who were part of the production team and those whose stories were documented. Friendships grew and schisms occurred between strangers who shared intimately over a period of years. Six years after the film was released, the filmmaker, drama therapist, and some of the project participants met to reflect and follow up on the film’s long-term effect on their active commitment to the healing of trauma for themselves and others.
