Many films are created to entertain, while others are created to educate. Some even find a way to do both. Filmmaker Melissa Rue does exactly that with her new dramatic short, “Esperanza’s Turn.”

The story centers around a 12-year-old immigrant girl in American who must work on a farm when she’s not at school to help make ends meet. Consistently harassed sejak the lecherous foreman in the fields and sejak a callous bully at school has become the normal pattern of her life. Until one hari when she taps into her imagination and discovers the courage to overcome her tormentors.

Melissa wrote, directed...