Rochester City School District
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

August 2, 2022

Editor Contact:
Marisol Ramos-Lopez
585.455.2844 (m)

Edison Tech Students Participate in Rochester Teen Film Festival

(August 2, 2022) Students from Edison Career and Technology High School will find out Thursday if they are winners at the 2022 Rochester Teen Film Festival. 


Their film, The Unattainable Dream, is one of 10 finalists for the film festival on Thursday, August 4 at 5:30 p.m. at the Little Theatre. This film was selected from many entries around the United States.


Students produced a documentary on governmental and societal oppression elements such as redlining, mortgage loans, and the federal housing authority. This was part of a project that aligned the District’s Career and Technology Education (CTE) curriculum to core subjects. 


Students in Participation in Government and Economics, English Language Arts (ELA), and Digital Media Arts and Communications (DMAC) classes worked together on this project. 


In ELA, students read fiction (The Great Gatsby and A Raisin in the Sun) and non-fiction (articles, interviews, and historical documents) to create focused contextually grounded questions for interviews with local voices. Students in the DMAC pathway produced the interviews and created the documentary in Video and Television Production class. Students in English Language Arts and Participation in Government and Economics classes created the script for the documentary, and classes used Edison's Makerspace to collaborate on various facets of the project. 


To delve into governmental and societal oppression elements, students conducted interviews with local individuals who have expertise in these areas. The interviews were conducted around the City of Rochester and included School Board Commissioner Camille Simmons, Assembly Member Demond Meeks, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, former Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, PathStone Foundation founder Shane Wiegand, and author/journalist Justin Murphy. Murphy recently published a book about educational disparities in Rochester entitled Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger.


Editor's note: 

Recipients of awards will be notified Thursday evening right after films are shown. Several awards will be given out. The producers of the films have been asked to give acceptance speeches if they win. There is a reception following the screening.

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