Game Girls follows Teri and her girlfriend Tiahna as they navigate their relationship through Los Angeles’ Skid Row, the “homeless capital of the U.S.”
The tension between the two women rises when Tiahna seems comfortable being a player in the underground economy of Skid Row, while Teri is driven by a powerful desire to get out.
Joining other women from the neighborhood, they attend a weekly Expressive Arts workshop, where they reflect, dream, and heal.
Can their love survive the violence of their past and their current environment?
Her first documentary feature, Songs from the Nickel (2010) was shown at many film festivals around the world (Visions du Réel, DocLisboa, Gijon, among others) and has won several awards.
Alina is the recipient of scholarships and grants among them a 12 month DAAD artist grant (2007/2008) and the Nipkow project development grant in Berlin 2012. She lives and works in Los Angeles and is the mother of a wonderful young boy.