Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The boys of Baraka / produced by Loki Films, LLC ; directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : ThinkFilm, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Follows a group of 12-year-old boys from the most violent ghettos of Baltimore to the Baraka School, an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, where children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA: R; some language.

Subjects:

Baraka School.

African American boys -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions.

Problem youth -- Education (Middle school)

Boarding schools -- Kenya.

American students -- Kenya.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Ewing, Heidi E.

Grady, Rachel.

McGeehan, J. J.

Loki Films.

Thinkfilm (Firm)

Notes:

Documentary.

Originally released in 2005.

Full frame presentation (4:3 aspect ratio).

Special features: Directors' commentary; "A conversation with Bill Cosby" featurette; Deleted scenes; The boys - an update; Theatrical trailer; Trailer gallery.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.

Cinematographers, Marco Franzoni, Tony Hardman ; editor, Enat Sidi ; original music, J.J. McGeehan.

Bill Cosby, featurette.

DVD; 2.0 stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Winner, Best Documentary, Chicago int'l Film Festival 2005 ; Winner, Best Documentary, Newport Int'l Film Festival 2005 ; Winner Best Documentary, The Atlanta Film Festival 2005 ; Audience Award AFI Discovery/Silverdocs Film Festival 2005 ; Audience Award, Woodstock Film Festival 2005 ; Speical Jury Prize, SXSW Film Festival 2005.

ISBN:

097801412X

9780978014124

Publisher Number:

TF-54805

78689

Other Number:

66913972

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

215957

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 365 Boys of