Untitled Literacy Documentary

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In this feature length, character-driven documentary, we are chronicling the current literacy crisis in America, using Detroit as our point of entry— the most poignant example of our country’s broken educational system and a community’s battle to thrive in the face of it.

We were raised to believe that in America, anyone can do anything.
That if we worked hard, studied hard, dreamed hard, no matter who were are, we could rise from rags to riches, from ghettos to gracelands.

But this is not the case.

We’re here to tell that story of America. The story where education has been designed to keep some people down, by denying them the one tool they need to rise up: literacy.

Blending intimate portraits with historical explorations, and an ongoing legal case, we create a narrative that is both emotional and informative, evocative and educational. We challenge viewer’s perception of equal access to literacy, igniting a conversation around this fundamental right. More than anything, our story is human— following characters we believe in, root for, feel for, in their ongoing fight against a system designed to hold them back.