Agency:.Coproduced by Les Productions Virages Inc. and the NFB. Agency - French program:.Documentary Studio / Montreal (Monde du travail).

Director, Marquise Lepage ; script, Marquise Lepage ; research, Raymonde Provencher ; director of photography, François Vincelette ; sound, Diane Carrière ; picture editor, Natacha Dufaux ; sound editing, Lusse Cloutier ; music, Robert Marcel Lepage ; executive producer, Monique Simard ; co-producer, Nicole Lamothe ; producer, Marcel Simard ; research, Raymonde Provencher, Marquise Lepage, Marcel Simard, Monique Simard ; researcher, Aminatou Bandé, Watine Sou, Isabelle Chen, Sylviane Tramier, Li Guo, Archana Anand, Patralkha Chaterjee, Lucie Kearns Vézina, Rachèle Magloire, Zein Elabdin Fouad, Jocelyne Talbot ; sound editor, Robert Poirier ; sound mixing, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard.

Participation, Fatou Déné, Safi Bougma, Adjaratou Bougma, Maude Duras, Soni Soni, Kamlesh Khatik, Esmeralda Ramirez-Sallas, null Mou, null Yui, Dalal Abdelaziz ; voice, Kathleen Fee.

Recorded 1999.

Hopscotch is universal. Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about school, what they want to be when they grow up, who they will marry, how many children they will have, their hopes for a better life for themselves and their family. But all too often, through poverty, perversion, spite, ignorance or superstition, adults shatter these dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labour, subjecting them to mutilation, sexual abuse and other injustices. Soni, Kamlesh, Mou, Yui, Dalal, Esmeralda, Fatou, Adiaratou, Safi and Maude range in age from 8 to 14. Some are frail, some strong; all are beautiful. Whether they live in India, Thailand, Yemen, Peru, Burkina Faso or Haiti, they all speak of having much of their childhood stolen from them. Because they are girls. With subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Gemeaux Award for Best Editing of a Documentary (Natacha Dufaux), 2000 Gemeaux Award for Best Documentary, 2000 Gemeaux Award for Best Research (Marquise Lepage) , 2000 Grand Prix du Jury - Communications et Société - le Prix 2000 est une gravure portant le titre Cher ami de François Vincent., 2000 Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Documentary Social, 2000 Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Social Issues, 2000 1st Honorable Mention, 2000 Jeunesse Award given by the City of Geneve - with a cash prize of 2,000Fr, 2000 Prix de l'État du Valais - with a cash prize of 4,000Fr, 2000

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).