Success is Our Only Option
Original title
American Promise
Released
10/18/2013
Origin country
US
Genre
Documentary
Production companies
ITVS, Impact Partners, American Documentary, POV, Rada Studio
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Runtime
2hr 15min
In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institution was committing to diversify its student body. Their cameras continued to follow both families for another 12 years as the paths of the two boys diverged—one continued private school while the other pursued a very different route through the public education system.
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