Tag Results for "youth"
by Annie P. Waldman
Premiere: September 22, 2009
Three high school students return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to graduate with their friends. (Short film shown with Bronx Princess.)
by Tod Lending , David Mrazek
Premiere: September 15, 2009
Over the course of a school year, two public school principals with unique styles and similar passions make a difference in the lives of their students.
by Kim Longinotto
Premiere: July 28, 2009
An unblinking look inside a British school for emotionally disturbed kids captures what happens when a community of determined adults envelops them in love rather than force.
by May Lin Au Yong
Premiere: September 4, 2007
Nine-year old Jyeshria wants a bullet proof vest — and she's dead serious. In Richmond, California, children don't walk to school; not if they want to live past the age of 18.
by Andrew Walton
Premiere: August 21, 2007
A clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the remote village of Old Crow, 80 miles above the Arctic Circle.
by Ralph Arlyck
Premiere: July 31, 2007
Ralph Arlyck goes back to San Francisco to find out what happened to the precocious four-year-old he'd met during the height of the '60s.
by Kenneth Eng
Premiere: July 4, 2006
In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's an obsession epitomized by the national high school baseball tournament known simply as "Koshien."
by Jason DaSilva
Premiere: August 23, 2005
A Song for Daniel compares a routine day of two nine-year-old boys — one living in Baghdad and the other, born and raised in New York City — and offers a profound examination of culture and place through the eyes of two Iraqi youth living on opposite sides of the world.
by Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt
Premiere: June 21, 2005
A self-described "good Southern Baptist girl," 15-year-old Shelby Knox of Lubbock, Texas has pledged abstinence until marriage. But she becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex ed when she finds that Lubbock, where high schools teach abstinence as the only safe sex, has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the state.