Tag: coming-of-age
Transgeneration
What is it like to be a man trapped in a woman’s body? How does a woman become a man? TRANSGENERATION, a dramatic and mesmerizing eight-part series, is a year-in-the-life look at four college students who are juggling the challenges of academia with their commitment to transition from their birth sex.
Stagedoor
When the curtain goes up, these campers turn on the talent! “By turns comical and compassionate” (Variety), STAGEDOOR is a lively portrait of a group of talented teenagers who head off to theater camp, leave [...]
The Same River Twice
An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as [...]
Scared Straight!
This Academy Award® and Emmy® award-winning film recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. These convicts gave the youths an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, hoping to change the course of the teens’ lives.
Prom Night in Mississippi
In 1970, the town of Charleston, Mississippi, allowed black students into their white high school, but refused to integrate the senior prom. Twenty-seven years later, Charleston resident and Academy Award® winning actor Morgan Freeman offered to finance the prom — under the condition it be integrated.
Heavy Petting
HEAVY PETTING is an entertaining and salacious exploration of the sexual mores of the 50s through the eyes of a generation that lived through the Sexual Revolution. Famous baby boomers — including musician David Byrne, [...]
High School Boot Camp
Wake up call is 4 a.m. Entertainment is a bucket of ice water on your head. Welcome to boot camp! Winner of the prestigious DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, HIGH SCHOOL BOOT [...]