Youth
by Yoni Brook , Musa Syeed
Premiere: September 22, 2009
Rocky Otoo is the sassy teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents. After she rebels against her mother's rule in the Bronx, she flees to her father, a chief in Ghana.
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 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 Anne Makepeace
Premiere: June 19, 2007
Two Somali Bantu families are transported by relief agencies from years of civil war and refugee life to settle in Springfield, Massachusetts and Atlanta, Georgia.
by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Premiere: September 12, 2006
The Boys of Baraka follows four boys from Baltimore to rural Kenya, where a teacher-student ratio of one to five, a strict disciplinary program and a comprehensive curriculum form the core of an extraordinary journey in their transformation to men.
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 Mel Stuart
Premiere: September 6, 2005
The Hobart Shakespeareans discovers how one teacher's uncommon commitment and resourcefulness have opened up worlds of opportunity for his "disadvantaged" students — and perhaps have demonstrated a way forward for America's beleaguered public education system.