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Best Kept Secret - Trailer - POV 2013 | PBS
Best Kept Secret - Trailer - POV 2013 | PBS
A documentary film by Samantha Buck.
At a public school in Newark, N.J., the staff answers the phone by saying, "You've reached John F. Kennedy High School, Newark's best-kept secret." JFK provides an exceptional environment for students with special-education needs. In "Best Kept Secret," Janet Mino, who has taught a class of young men for four years, is on an urgent mission. She races against the clock as graduation approaches for her severely autistic minority students. Once they graduate and leave the security of this nurturing place, their options for living independently will be few. Mino must help them find the means to support themselves before they "age out" of the system.
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http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/best-kept-secret-pbs
Best Kept Secret (PBS)
American Documentary / POV, BKS Films, LLC
The staff at Newark’s underfunded John F. Kennedy High School describes their school as the city’s “best kept secret,” and this documentary makes a compelling argument for why that’s the case. The school’s unexpectedly resourceful program for students with special needs provides a beacon of hope in a community ravaged by poverty and crime and with a disproportionately high autism rate. Frank, poignant, and never simplistic, the film immersed viewers in the world of teacher Janet Mino as she moved closer to her class of six young autistic males who were “aging out” of the program. When students turn 21, they can no longer attend JFK, and parents and teachers call this moment “falling of the cliff” because of the lack of continuing adult education programs. Mino took it upon herself to help bridge this gap in our country’s social services; she devoted herself to keeping her students from being abandoned into homelessness, idleness or institutionalization. For a revealing portrait of how America abandons some of its most vulnerable citizens, balanced by the story of a compassionate community in the midst of challenging circumstances, Best Kept Secret wins a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Scott Mosier, Daniella Kahane Levy, Mark Nordlicht, Simon Kilmurry. Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez. Producer: Danielle DiGiacomo. Director: Samantha Buck. Writer: Zeke Farrow, Samantha Buck, Francisco Bello. Director of Photography: Nara Garber. Editor: Francisco Bello.
Best Kept Secret (PBS)
American Documentary / POV, BKS Films, LLC
The staff at Newark’s underfunded John F. Kennedy High School describes their school as the city’s “best kept secret,” and this documentary makes a compelling argument for why that’s the case. The school’s unexpectedly resourceful program for students with special needs provides a beacon of hope in a community ravaged by poverty and crime and with a disproportionately high autism rate. Frank, poignant, and never simplistic, the film immersed viewers in the world of teacher Janet Mino as she moved closer to her class of six young autistic males who were “aging out” of the program. When students turn 21, they can no longer attend JFK, and parents and teachers call this moment “falling of the cliff” because of the lack of continuing adult education programs. Mino took it upon herself to help bridge this gap in our country’s social services; she devoted herself to keeping her students from being abandoned into homelessness, idleness or institutionalization. For a revealing portrait of how America abandons some of its most vulnerable citizens, balanced by the story of a compassionate community in the midst of challenging circumstances, Best Kept Secret wins a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Scott Mosier, Daniella Kahane Levy, Mark Nordlicht, Simon Kilmurry. Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez. Producer: Danielle DiGiacomo. Director: Samantha Buck. Writer: Zeke Farrow, Samantha Buck, Francisco Bello. Director of Photography: Nara Garber. Editor: Francisco Bello.
MORE: http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/press-release-73rd-annual-award-winners
http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/peabody-awards-sign-3-year-contract-with-pivot-tv
The Peabody Awards has signed a three-year contract with Pivot, a new TV network aimed at millennials, to produce annual prime-time specials about the awards presentation and the winners. The unique partnership brings together the distinguished 73-year legacy of the Peabody Awards with Pivot’s fresh approach toward civic-minded entertainment that reaches their viewers through a combination of a pay-TV channel and an on-demand, interactive app. If you haven’t watched Pivot yet, you may have heard of them through their flagship original program HitRECord on TV, created by and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which is a variety show that crowd-sources their content for each episode...
The Peabody Awards has signed a three-year contract with Pivot, a new TV network aimed at millennials, to produce annual prime-time specials about the awards presentation and the winners. The unique partnership brings together the distinguished 73-year legacy of the Peabody Awards with Pivot’s fresh approach toward civic-minded entertainment that reaches their viewers through a combination of a pay-TV channel and an on-demand, interactive app. If you haven’t watched Pivot yet, you may have heard of them through their flagship original program HitRECord on TV, created by and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which is a variety show that crowd-sources their content for each episode...