The homestretch
DVD
DVD.
The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers--Roque, Kasey and Anthony--will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age. Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, these teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us deeply with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights. With unprecedented access into the Chicago Public Schools, The Night Ministry's Crib emergency youth shelter and Teen Living Programs' Belfort House, The Homestretch follows these kids as they move through the milestones of high school while navigating a landscape of couch hopping, emergency shelters, transitional homes, street families, and a school system on the front lines of this crisis. The film, a co-production between Spargel Productions and Kartemquin Films, examines the struggles these youth face in obtaining a high school level education, and then follows them beyond graduation to focus on the crucial transition when the structure of school vanishes and homeless youth struggle to find the support and community they need to survive and be independent. A powerful, original perspective on what it means to be young, homeless and building a future in America today.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at OWWL.
Current holds
0 current holds with 1 total copy.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodus Community Library | DVD 362.7 HOM (Text) Adult Nonfiction Videos |
52148300445123 |
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Record details
- ISBN: 9781941545201
- ISBN: 1941545203
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 12 cm.
- Edition: DVD.
- Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Spargel Productions, [2014]
- Manufacturer: [Chicago, Ill.] : Kartemquin Films.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Special featurettes: trailer, deleted scenes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Special features: Trailer -- Schools on the front line of homelessness (featurette) -- Bonus scenes -- About Spargel Productions, Kartemquin Films & Bullfrog Films. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Executive producers, Justin Nagan, Gordon Quinn, Andrew W. Schwertfeger; edited by Leslie Simmer; written by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly, Leslie Simmer ; coproducer, Katie Taber; original music by Greg Kalember. |
| Summary, etc.: | The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers--Roque, Kasey and Anthony--will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age. Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, these teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us deeply with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights. With unprecedented access into the Chicago Public Schools, The Night Ministry's Crib emergency youth shelter and Teen Living Programs' Belfort House, The Homestretch follows these kids as they move through the milestones of high school while navigating a landscape of couch hopping, emergency shelters, transitional homes, street families, and a school system on the front lines of this crisis. The film, a co-production between Spargel Productions and Kartemquin Films, examines the struggles these youth face in obtaining a high school level education, and then follows them beyond graduation to focus on the crucial transition when the structure of school vanishes and homeless youth struggle to find the support and community they need to survive and be independent. A powerful, original perspective on what it means to be young, homeless and building a future in America today. |
| Target Audience Note: | Not rated. |
| System Details Note: | DVD; NTSC. |
| Language Note: | English; closed captioned. Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) |
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| Genre: | Documentary films. Biographical films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |