“We knew we always wanted to make ‘Girls State’…the question was just when and where,” said co-director Amanda McBaine after the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Friday. McBaine and Moss return to Park City, Utah with a spiritual “sibling” to their 2020 documentary “Boys State,” following 500 teenage girls from Missouri as they engage in a week-long immersion program involving the creation of a democratic society.
For McBaine and Moss, they initially thought about returning to Texas, the location of “Boys State,” for this new go-round. But ended up finding a similar program in another red state: Missouri.