Her first feature documentary Small Small Thing premiered in 2013 at the Dallas International Film Festival and Palm Beach International Film Festival . It is the tragic story of a 12-year-old Liberian girl named Olivia Zinnah , who comes from deep in the tribal bush . A rape at age 7 left her with a fistula and subsequent colostomy bag . Despite international media attention , the intervention of the UN and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , she ultimately died of a bowel obstruction and septic shock in December 2012
Palm Beach International Film Festival
Palm Beach International Film Festival
Jessica Vale