Southeast 67

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Overview: Devastated by the arrival of crack cocaine in the 1980s, Washington DC became known as the 'Murder Capital' of the country. Growing up at the epicenter of this violence - in southeast DC - 67 rising seventh graders were promised college scholarships by a wealthy area businessman. Southeast 67 focuses on the students' struggles to reconcile the dream of college with daily survival in a community rife with violence, poverty and addiction. Blowing up the simplistic bootstrap narrative of success, this feature-length documentary combines raw never-before-seen archival film footage and photographs, with present day footage and intimate interviews with the students, twenty years later, as they reflect on the hope and anguish of trying to seize an improbable dream.

Rating: 8 / 10

Cast

Stewart Bainum, Sr.

as self - Founder, Choice Hotels

Steve Bumbaugh

as Program Coordinator

George H. W. Bush

as self - archival footage

Antwan Green

as self

Martece Gooden

as self