I Am A Promise

Teachers in inner-city Philadelphia with exclusively poor African-American students struggle to inspire and educate their students in this Academy-Award winning film. 725 African-American pupils who attempt with varying degrees of success to defy poverty in a neighborhood blighted with crack houses and violence in order to receive the most basic education. Their fears, anger and isolation as well as dreams and joys come through poignantly as this cinema verite film allows the children to speak for themselves.

Teachers in inner-city Philadelphia with exclusively poor African-American students struggle to inspire and educate their students in this Academy-Award winning film.

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