Closing Bell: Movie Tracks the Opening of Bed-Stuy School

Filmmaker Jyllian Gunther shot four years of footage at Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High, starting when the high school opened in 2006, and is now looking to get funding to complete the movie. Here’s what Gunther has to say about the film, which is currently titled “Growing Small”: “I followed the school from opening day thru it’s first graduation at the Brooklyn Museum four years later and the community participated in the making of the film. It is not an advocacy film or a policy film, but really an intimate story about what happens when a community of young, idealists try to bridge the urban education gap.” There’s a Kickstarter campaign here, and the film’s website has more clips and information about the movie. Growing Small [Official Site]
Growing Small Fundraising Campaign [Kickstarter]