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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
- Series:
- Academic Video 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 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Filmakers Library, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- 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.
- 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
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