Best kept secret /

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 fore...

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Other Authors: Farrow, Zeke (Screenwriter), Bello, Francisco (Screenwriter), DiGiacomo, Danielle (Producer), Buck, Samantha (Director, Screenwriter)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2013
Series:Filmakers library online, volume 2
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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.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Oct. 7, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (86 min.).
Playing Time:01:25:42
Awards:Sundance Documentary Fund Grant, 2012
Audience Award, Independent Film Festival of Boston, 2013
Best of Fest, AFI DOCS, Washington, DC, 2013
Production Credits:Director of photography, Nara Garber ; edited by Francisco Bello ; composer, Brian Satz.
Participant or Performer:Janet Mino, Erik Taylor, Quran Key, Robert Casper, Kareen Wigfall, Matthew McNab, Rahamid Saunders.
Language:In English.