Sewickley Series: "American Promise"
Location: Rea Auditorium
Contact:
Mandi Semple
Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Grand Jury Award at the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, New York, turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys’ divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation at Manhattan’s Dalton School, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America’s struggle to come of age on issues of race, class, and opportunity.
As the producer and director of American Promise and mother of Idris, Michèle Stephenson will join us to be part of a panel discussion that will take place after the film.
See the trailer and learn more at www.americanpromise.org.
