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Overview. The film follows students into the classrooms of High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, California. The film combines commentary by a variety of people and follows two groups of ninth graders over the course of a year. The director's experiences with his daughter's school shape the opening to the film and inform his ...
Homeroom is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Peter Nicks. [1] The film, which is the final chapter of Nicks' Oakland trilogy (following The Waiting Room and The Force), follows the lives of the Oakland High School class of 2020 as they try to make the most of their final year in high school amidst district budget cuts and ultimately the COVID-19 pandemic and the George ...
Language. English. Precious Knowledge is a 2011 educational and political documentary that centers on the banning of the Mexican-American Studies (MAS) Program in the Tucson Unified School District of Arizona. The documentary was directed by Ari Luis Palos and produced by Eren Isabel McGinnis, the founders of Dos Vatos Productions. [2][3]
The film highlights the origins of the Free Speech Movement beginning with the May 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at San Francisco City Hall, [3] the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969. [4] The film features 15 student activists and archival footage ...
The first major project for Exceptional Minds was the end title sequence for Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer. [3] In addition, EM students have also worked on post-production visual effects for films such as American Hustle (rotoscoping), [4] [5] Lawless (end credits), [4] and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (VFX roto work in stereo).
Crip Camp starts in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp in New York described as a "loose, free-spirited camp designed for teens with disabilities". [4] Starring Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James LeBrecht, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and Stephen Hofmann, the film focuses on those campers who became activists in the disability rights movement and follows their fight for accessibility legislation.
United States. Language. English. Box office. $106,771 [1] Ivory Tower is a 2014 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Andrew Rossi. [2][3] The film premiered in competition category of U.S. Documentary Competition program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. [4] After its premiere at Sundance Film ...
Documentary film. A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record ". [1] Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains ...