About the Film

Like her peers, Bawi Par is a teenager in search of belonging and self-worth, but unlike her peers, she has waded through quicksand and has had to drink from mud puddles in order to survive. Since fleeing Myanmar as a child, Bawi has watched her parents forfeit their future for hers. Worthy (working title) is a short documentary that follows Bawi through her senior year of high school as she works to get a college scholarship and build a life worthy of her parents’ sacrifice.