MAESTRA

The Cuban Literacy Campaign

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women.

THEY SAY I’M YOUR TEACHER

Carolina Citizenship Schools

This documentary short is a new release created from the 16mm archives of the groundbreaking 1985 film “You Got to Move.”

TEACH

Freedom Schools
in USA 

[In Production] 

Offers a look into the classrooms of the Freedom Schools and Citizenship Schools of the 1950s and 60s. 

CRUZADA

Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign

[In Development]

Documents personal testimonies from Nicaragua’s 1980 Literacy Campaign, which was nation-wide and evolved into multilingual campaign in Spanish, English, and several indigenous languages including Miskito and Mayagna.