Best kept secret / BKS Film in association with Occasional Giant Beard Productions presents ; produced by Danielle DiGiacomo ; co-produced by Samantha Buck, Zeke Farrow ; directed by Samantha Buck ; written by Zeke Farrow, Samantha Buck, Francisco Bello.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Farrow, Zeke., Screenwriter.

Bello, Francisco., Screenwriter.

Mino, Janet., Teacher.

DiGiacomo, Danielle., Producer.

Buck, Samantha., Director, Screenwriter.

Filmakers Library, inc.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mino, Janet.

Autistic youth--Education--New Jersey--Newark.

Autistic youth.

Autistic youth--Employment--New Jersey--Newark.

Autism in adolescence--New Jersey--Newark.

Autism in adolescence.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York : Filmakers Library, 2013.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

JFK High School, located in a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world--a job or rare placement in a recreational center--so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.

Credits:

Director of photography, Nara Garber ; edited by Francisco Bello ; composer, Brian Satz.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Aug. 7, 2014).

Sundance Documentary Fund Grant, 2012

Audience Award, Independent Film Festival of Boston, 2013

Best of Fest, AFI DOCS, Washington, DC, 2013

OCLC:

890604916

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.