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1) Scheme birds
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of Gemma, a teenage troublemaker, growing up in a world of pigeons and violence. From childhood to motherhood, her life unfolds as innocent games turn towards serious crime.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the epidemic of homeless teenagers in America.
In the world's wealthiest country, 4.2 million teenagers are homeless. Former Navy veteran and homeless youth, director Rotimi Rainwater shows viewers the realities of life on the streets as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America. With the help of celebrities and politicians who have been homeless themselves or advocates of the repressed, the...
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Engrossing and powerful, Academy Award® nominee COLORS STRAIGHT UP offers a penetrating look at the intimate lives of teenagers from South Los Angeles who strive for self-expression through acting, music and dance. The film tracks six teens as they struggle to avoid violence and danger on the streets and make a better life for themselves and their families. They discover their talents through Colors United, a performing arts group for vulnerable...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Not your TV version of Orange County. Born out of the deaths of two Orange County teens, this close-to-the-bone documentary explores how young people of relative affluence in this part of the country are dying after getting hooked on prescription medications such like Oxycontin, Ativan, and Adderall.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A short documentary that explores the lives of the children of Arab immigrants as they navigate life in their tight-knit community and life in mainstream society. It explains the realizations that they come to, the conflicts that they encounter, and the resolutions that they arrive at in searching for an identity between the hyphens.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They arrive under age and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely alien to their own. In some provinces, specifically Ontario, these unaccompanied refugee minors have surprisingly no government system in place for their care after arriving. This documentary is a cinematic portrait of a year in the life of two such teenagers, Joyce and Sallieu. They seem like your typical teenagers, except that reserved Sallieu, 16, witnessed...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, world-famous dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch selected 40 teenagers who had never heard her name to be part of her dance piece Contact Zone. For 10 months through opening night, the young dancers discover Bausch's genius and their own bodies. Pina Bausch died in 2009; a sensation at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, Dancing Dreams is a testament to Bausch's revolutionary work.
10) The Homestretch
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This **Emmy**-winning documentary follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers 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...
11) Billy the Kid
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A provocative coming-of-age story, Jennifer Venditti's debut film, BILLY THE KID (2007), is an acclaimed odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. Venditti follows Billy as he navigates small town Maine, grappling with isolation and first-time love, and traversing the frustrating gap between imagination and reality. Exhilarating and heartfelt, the film grants an intimate, empathetic view of an expressive and seemingly fearless outsider and provides...
12) Written Off
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
WRITTEN OFF reveals the achingly personal journey of Matt Edwards as he battles addiction. A charismatic storyteller with a unique curiosity for life, Edwards longs to leave rural Wisconsin behind and see the world. But as a teen, a prescription for a powerful painkiller following a botched toe surgery exposes him to opioids for the first time. They make him feel like he has been "touched by God." What follows is a valiant decade-long struggle to...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Miami Beach, a group of teenage outcasts bond together on a rocky sport fishing pier, one-upping each other for bragging rights to the biggest shark catch of all time. Endless summers of surfing and skating turn to a deadly real life "Jaws" story that ultimately reminds us that sport and craft can be the cornerstone to teach others life lessons bigger than fishing.
14) At the Ready
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the Texas borderlands, teens at Horizon High begin training early to become cops and Border Patrol agents. They soon discover that the realities of their dream jobs may be at odds with the truths and people they hold most dear.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An enlightening and poignant coming of age story that follows the journeys of four courageous blind teenagers as they strive to achieve their dreams: to be a sponsored skateboarder, travel the world, become a rock star and be the first family member to graduate. Their stories shine a proactive light on the social and institutional obstacles faced by people who are blind and what it takes to surmount those barriers. Winner of an Audience Award at the...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Thanks to social media, today's teens are able to directly interact with their culture--artists, celebrities, movies, brands, and even one another--in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers still hold the upper hand? In Generation Like, author and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff (The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders) explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social...
17) Unspoken
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
14-year old Emma Zurcher-Long sees and hears the world, as she put it, in 'Hi-res, technicolor and surround sound'. While it may not always be easy for people to understand where Emma is coming from, it has become her mission to teach the world how potent, powerful and dynamic the life of a teenager with autism actually is. To achieve this Emma uses the keyboard to strengthen her communication with others. Applying her insightful writing as a catalyst...
18) Phantom Cowboys
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Part time capsule, part folk song, PHANTOM COWBOYS follows three teenage boys as they approach adulthood in vastly different parts of the United States. Moving fluidly between the deserts of California, the valleys of West Virginia, and the sugarcane fields of Florida, the film explores the lives of these young men during two formative periods - transitioning forward and backward in time over a span of eight years. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature...
19) Web Junkie
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Chinese government is the first to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder. WEB JUNKIE identifies internet addiction and focuses on the treatment used in Chinese rehabilitation centers. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival.** *"...the human stories...are instantly identifiable, stories of a world where everyone has been brought closer together and simultaneously kept apart."...
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