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Summary:

The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers - Roque, Kasey and Anthony - will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age. Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, these teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us deeply with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights. With unprecedented access into the Chicago Public Schools, The Night Ministry's Crib emergency youth shelter and Teen Living Programs' Belfort House, The Homestretch follows these kids as they move through the milestones of high school while navigating a landscape of couch hopping, emergency shelters, transitional homes, street families and a school system on the front lines of this crisis. A powerful, original perspective on what it means to be young, homeless and building a future in America today.

Contributors:

De Mare, Anne , film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography

Kelly, Kirsten , film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography

Simmer, Leslie , screenwriter, film editor

Taber, Katie , film producer

Spargel Productions (Firm)

Kartemquin Films

Chicken & Egg Pictures (Firm)

Bullfrog Films

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Homeless teenagers — Illinois — Chicago

Homeless students — Illinois — Chicago

Sexual minorities

Homeless teenagers

Homeless students

Illinois — Chicago

Genres:

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

Internet videos

Online media

System Details:

Digital format: System requirements: Adobe Flash or equivalent.

Performers:

Roque Sanchez, Angeline "Kasey" White, Anthony Lynch.

Production Credits:

Edited by Leslie Simmer ; cinematography by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly ; original music by Greg Kalember.

General Notes:

Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Originally produced by: Spargel Productions & Kartemquin Films, ©2014.
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed February 19, 2016).
Public performance rights included.
Institutional Streaming Licenses permit screening on the Unified Campus to a group only when no admission is charged and there is no advertising outside the learning community.

Audience:

Grades: 10 and up.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (89 min.)) : sound, color

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Docuseek2: bf-hstr

OCLC Numbers:

940969422

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: doc00000694