Night School Oscilloscope Pictures Director: Andrew Cohn Written by: Andrew Cohn Cast: Greg Henson, Shynika Jakes, Melissa Lewis Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/16/17 Opens: June 9, 2017 In President Trump’s cabinet we have a labor secretary who supports business; an energy secretary who will to let the coal and oil industries do what they […]
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- 6/21/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Focusing on a year in the life of three adult students — Melissa, Greg and Shynika — enrolled in Indianapolis’ Excel Center, a publicly-funded high school for those seeking a second chance, Andrew Cohn’s Night School has only grown more vital since its premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Like For Ahkeem and this year’s Step, Night School offers a frank examination of inner-city poverty and the extra burden faced by those without the kinds of advantages that many take for granted. Its subjects make every attempt to buck the trend of poverty for themselves and their children, despite systemic constraints.
Cohn’s vérité-style documentary observes the lives of its three characters in and out of the classroom as they navigate self-doubt and oppressive systematic poverty, from employers who aren’t quick to grant second chances to those that can’t seem to understand why someone wouldn’t...
Cohn’s vérité-style documentary observes the lives of its three characters in and out of the classroom as they navigate self-doubt and oppressive systematic poverty, from employers who aren’t quick to grant second chances to those that can’t seem to understand why someone wouldn’t...
- 6/16/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
“I don’t want a job, I need a career,” declares one of the subjects of Night School. The statement effectively sums up the emotional impact of Andrew Cohn’s (Medora) documentary chronicling three African-American adults working over the course of a year to earn their high school diplomas. Feeling particularly relevant these days because of the ever-growing obstacles faced by less-educated people struggling for economic gains, the moving film depicts the American dream in action.
The cinema verite-style documentary introduces us to 31-year-old Greg, a former drug dealer and single father to an epilepsy-afflicted young girl; 26-year-old Shynika, reduced to...
The cinema verite-style documentary introduces us to 31-year-old Greg, a former drug dealer and single father to an epilepsy-afflicted young girl; 26-year-old Shynika, reduced to...
- 6/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With a title like Night School, one may not quite know what they’re getting into. Is it the latest in bland, perversion-for-perversion’s sake teen comedy? Is it another slasher picture with its mind set on aping the aesthetic that would have been popular about 30-plus years ago? Or is it a captivating look at an issue that is far too rarely discussed in today’s society, in the guise of a gorgeous verite documentary?
If you have the latter option, you’re the lucky winner. From director Andrew Cohn comes Night School, a documentary that, like it’s subject, likely won’t get the respect it so rightly deserves. Very much rooted in the style and structure of today’s typical issue documentary, this gorgeous and intimate picture introduces us to a group of men and women currently progressing through the process of getting their high school diploma...
If you have the latter option, you’re the lucky winner. From director Andrew Cohn comes Night School, a documentary that, like it’s subject, likely won’t get the respect it so rightly deserves. Very much rooted in the style and structure of today’s typical issue documentary, this gorgeous and intimate picture introduces us to a group of men and women currently progressing through the process of getting their high school diploma...
- 6/9/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
With Oscilloscope releasing his latest documentary, Night School, this Friday in New York at the IFC Center and June 23 at the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles (with nationwide roll-out to follow), filmmaker Andrew Cohn posts this guest essay about his choice to make films largely in America’s heartland. Here he recounts his experience making his previous film, Medora, and how it made him question the motives and strategies many non-fiction filmmakers bring to their depiction of Midwestern subjects. Oscilloscope will donate a portion of all proceeds from ticket sales to educational initiatives at Goodwill Industries’ McClelland Scholars, the organization […]...
- 6/7/2017
- by Andrew Cohn
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Here’s a tough reality of American life: Entire futures hinge on a thin scrap of paper, rolled up and handed out to teenagers. Stranger still, this particular scrap of paper, so crucial to so many career paths, can only be acquired at an age when the brain is almost comically resistant to thinking ahead. Well, at least that’s historically when you could get one. With Night School, documentarian Andrew Cohn (Medora) takes his camera behind the walls of the Excel Center in Indianapolis, where high school dropouts can enroll for free in an intensive adult-education program. If they pass all their final exams, these returning students earn a diploma—not a Ged, but the real deal, basically indistinguishable from what they would have received if they had graduated the first time around. It’s like an accelerated version of high school, minus the dances and the extracurricular activities...
- 6/7/2017
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
Eddie Rosenstein’s latest, “The Freedom to Marry” follows one of the greatest civil rights stories of our time as it chronicles the marriage equality movement throughout its ongoing campaign to win the right to same-sex marriage in the United States.
The film picks up with a number of key figures, including Evan Wolfson (known to many as the architect of the marriage movement) attorney Mary Bonauto, and other members of their team as they make their way through a decades-long battle. It all ends with a dramatic turn at the United States Supreme Court, capping off an inspiring and insightful look at one of history’s most important fights for justice.
Read More: ‘Night School’: Andrew Cohn’s Timely Documentary Explores Americans Pushing for Better Lives — Watch
On the heels of its spring theatrical run, the film will now be available digitally this month, all timed to national Lgbt pride celebrations this summer.
The film picks up with a number of key figures, including Evan Wolfson (known to many as the architect of the marriage movement) attorney Mary Bonauto, and other members of their team as they make their way through a decades-long battle. It all ends with a dramatic turn at the United States Supreme Court, capping off an inspiring and insightful look at one of history’s most important fights for justice.
Read More: ‘Night School’: Andrew Cohn’s Timely Documentary Explores Americans Pushing for Better Lives — Watch
On the heels of its spring theatrical run, the film will now be available digitally this month, all timed to national Lgbt pride celebrations this summer.
- 6/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
‘Night School’: Andrew Cohn’s Timely Documentary Explores Americans Pushing for Better Lives — Watch
Emmy-winning director Andrew Cohn’s latest documentary, “Night School,” takes its audience inside the lives of a trio of American dreamers as they struggle to overcome conditions outside their control and a system that hasn’t made things any easier for them to achieve something incredible: earning an education.
Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.”
Read More: Oscilloscope Rounds Out Growing Documentary Slate with ‘Night School’ and ‘Santoalla’ — Exclusive
The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.” Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the...
Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.”
Read More: Oscilloscope Rounds Out Growing Documentary Slate with ‘Night School’ and ‘Santoalla’ — Exclusive
The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.” Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the...
- 6/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The subject of Patrick Shen’s “In Pursuit of Silence” doesn’t sound particularly revelatory on paper — the new documentary explores the history and current state of silence, yes, silence around the world — but the final result is one of the most truly mediative and deeply inventive films of the year.
“In Pursuit of Silence” aims to takes its viewer “on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe — from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city on the planet — and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world.” Combining stunning footage with compelling anecdotal and historical evidence, the result is a film that pushes its audience to reflect on the world around them in ways that aren’t so easy to shake.
Read More: ‘Abu’ Trailer: Lgbtq Documentary Explores One Man’s Quest to Understand His Devout Muslim...
“In Pursuit of Silence” aims to takes its viewer “on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe — from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city on the planet — and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world.” Combining stunning footage with compelling anecdotal and historical evidence, the result is a film that pushes its audience to reflect on the world around them in ways that aren’t so easy to shake.
Read More: ‘Abu’ Trailer: Lgbtq Documentary Explores One Man’s Quest to Understand His Devout Muslim...
- 6/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
“Wonder Women” is currently basking in the glory of its $100.5 million debut weekend, proving it shouldn’t have taken 75 years for the superhero to make her first standalone trip to the big screen. While critics and audiences continue to embrace Patty Jenkins’ superhero movie, Annapurna Pictures are getting ready to introduce the real origin story of Wonder Woman in the upcoming drama “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.”
Read More: ‘Wonder Woman’: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre?
From director Angela Robinson, “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” tells the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston, whose relationships with his wife Elizabeth and domestic partner Olive Byrne led to the creation of the iconic superhero in 1941. Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcoate are playing the three lead characters, while Frank L. Ridley, Connie Britton and Oliver Platt will take on supporting roles.
Read More: ‘Wonder Woman’: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre?
From director Angela Robinson, “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” tells the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston, whose relationships with his wife Elizabeth and domestic partner Olive Byrne led to the creation of the iconic superhero in 1941. Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcoate are playing the three lead characters, while Frank L. Ridley, Connie Britton and Oliver Platt will take on supporting roles.
- 6/5/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Before Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman get to work on the much anticipated “Edge of Tomorrow” sequel, the duo will bring one of the CIA’s most infamous true stories to the big screen this fall. “American Made” stars Cruise as Barry Seal, an airline pilot turned drug smuggler turned CIA informant who worked with the Medellin Cartel and was assassinated at age 46. It’s not going to have the alien combat of “Edge of Tomorrow,” but it’s surely going to be just as wild.
Read More: Doug Liman Has a Title In Mind For An ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel, And It’s Not ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’
“American Made” marks Liman’s return to Universal Pictures for the first time since “The Bourne Identity.” Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are producing through their Imagine Entertainment banner, while Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Jesse Plemons and Lola Kirke are staring in supporting roles.
Read More: Doug Liman Has a Title In Mind For An ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel, And It’s Not ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’
“American Made” marks Liman’s return to Universal Pictures for the first time since “The Bourne Identity.” Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are producing through their Imagine Entertainment banner, while Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Jesse Plemons and Lola Kirke are staring in supporting roles.
- 6/5/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
"Here I am still trying to get my life together..." Oscilloscope Labs has debuted a trailer for Andrew Cohn's documentary Night School, about struggling adults in Indianapolis, Indiana who have decided to get their high school diploma by attending night school. The doc follows three different adults, profiling their lives and choice to return to school, as well as their struggles and daily challenges. This seems like a powerful film about the will to succeed and the belief that education can change the world. This also goes nicely with a few other recent docs about education in troubled areas, including Step and For Ahkeem. We also just featured a trailer for another school doc titled School Life, about teachers. This looks like it's definitely worth a watch. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Andrew Cohn's documentary Night School, direct from YouTube: Indianapolis has one of the lowest high...
- 6/2/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Opening in a court room, For Ahkeem finds its protagonist Daje, an African American girl from the inner city of North St. Louis, sentenced to Judge Jimmy Edwards’ Inner City Academy (Ica), an alternative high school for those with violent and troubling records, providing one-on-one academic counseling and services. It would appear her path to college seems blocked again by an upbringing in a rough, economically disadvantaged neighborhood, although she does have a support network in her mother and well-meaning administrators at Ica.
Set partly during the Ferguson turmoil in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, For Ahkeem is a film in the classic cinéma vérité tradition, shinning a light on the plight of our inner cities. The film is a great deal less hopeful than the post-Freddie Gray Baltimore-set Step, destined to be a crowdpleaser this summer. For Ahkeem chooses to follow one young African American struggling to...
Set partly during the Ferguson turmoil in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, For Ahkeem is a film in the classic cinéma vérité tradition, shinning a light on the plight of our inner cities. The film is a great deal less hopeful than the post-Freddie Gray Baltimore-set Step, destined to be a crowdpleaser this summer. For Ahkeem chooses to follow one young African American struggling to...
- 5/7/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Breaking Glass, O-Scope, Big World Pictures, Factory 25 also cut deals.
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited theatrical release...
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited theatrical release...
- 3/30/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Distribution Round-up: Breaking Glass, O-Scope, Big World Pictures, Factory 25 also in action.
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited...
Grasshopper has pounced on Us rights to Feras Fayyad’s documentary and recent Sundance world premiere Last Men In Aleppo.
The film, co-directed by Steen Johannesen, won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize in Park City and went on to open Cph:dox, where it won the Dox: Award.
The filmmakers followed rescue workers The White Helmets from September 2015 to autumn 2016 as they help citizens during the Battle of Aleppo.
Larm Film and the Aleppo Media Center produced in co-production with Kloos & Co Medien with support from the Danish Film Institute & Dr and Imr.
Grasshopper plans to release the film theatrically in May followed by VOD release. Pov holds Us broadcast rights. Cinetic represented the filmmakers.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historical drama The Long Night Of Francisco Sanctis by Argentinian directors Francisco Márquez and Andrea Test and plans a limited...
- 3/30/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oscilloscope Laboratories has rounded out their ever-growing documentary slate with the recent purchase of Andrew Cohn’s “Night School” and Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer’s “Santoalla,” and the indie distributor is planning summer releases for both features.
Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.” The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.”
Oscilloscope will open the film theatrically on June 9 at the IFC Center in New York, with national expansion in the following weeks.
Cohn’s latest documentary outing premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Set in Indianapolis, which has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country, the doc follows “victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they don’t need to be on the wrong side of statistics.” The film “observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many Americans as they strive to improve their lives in the face of adversity.”
Oscilloscope will open the film theatrically on June 9 at the IFC Center in New York, with national expansion in the following weeks.
- 3/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Best Film
Winner: "Moonlight"
Runner-up: "Hell or High Water"
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
"American Honey.
.Arrival.
.Deadpool.
.Everybody Wants Some!!.
.La La Land.
.The Lobster.
.Manchester by the Sea.
.Sing Street.
Best Animated Feature
Winner: "Kubo and the Two Strings"
Runner-Up: "Sausage Party.
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: "The Handmaiden.
Runner-Up: "A Man Called Ove.
Best Documentary
Winner: "O.J.: Made in America.
Runner-Up: "Weiner"
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Taylor Sheridan, .Hell or High Water.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Barry Jenkins, .Moonlight.
Runner-up: Eric Heisserer, .Arrival.
Best Director
Winner: Damien Chazelle, .La La Land.
Runner-up: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Best Actress
Winner: Rebecca Hall, .Christine.
Runner-up: Natalie Portman, .Jackie.
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Viola Davis, .Fences.
Runner-up: Naomie Harris, .Moonlight.
Best Actor
Winner: Casey Affleck, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Ethan Hawke, "Born to Be Blue"
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mahershala Ali,...
Winner: "Moonlight"
Runner-up: "Hell or High Water"
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
"American Honey.
.Arrival.
.Deadpool.
.Everybody Wants Some!!.
.La La Land.
.The Lobster.
.Manchester by the Sea.
.Sing Street.
Best Animated Feature
Winner: "Kubo and the Two Strings"
Runner-Up: "Sausage Party.
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: "The Handmaiden.
Runner-Up: "A Man Called Ove.
Best Documentary
Winner: "O.J.: Made in America.
Runner-Up: "Weiner"
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Taylor Sheridan, .Hell or High Water.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Barry Jenkins, .Moonlight.
Runner-up: Eric Heisserer, .Arrival.
Best Director
Winner: Damien Chazelle, .La La Land.
Runner-up: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester by the Sea.
Best Actress
Winner: Rebecca Hall, .Christine.
Runner-up: Natalie Portman, .Jackie.
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Viola Davis, .Fences.
Runner-up: Naomie Harris, .Moonlight.
Best Actor
Winner: Casey Affleck, .Manchester by the Sea.
Runner-up: Ethan Hawke, "Born to Be Blue"
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mahershala Ali,...
- 12/21/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
We’ve heard a lot about the crisis of education in America – about poverty, about the dropout rate, about prohibitive testing measures, about charter schools and teacher salaries and the slow decline of American education having any sort of claim to intellectual ascendancy. And while politicians can shout that no child should be left behind, they still are, they have been, and they will be. But there are some children who have now become adults and who, for a multitude of reasons, long to finish their education. Night School, a documentary from Andrew Cohn, seeks to tell at least a few of their stories.
Night School focuses on three people attending a high school for adult learners in inner-city Indianapolis, a city that, in 2005, had one of the lowest high school graduation rates of any large American metropolis.
All three students come from differing circumstances: Greg, a single father, left...
Night School focuses on three people attending a high school for adult learners in inner-city Indianapolis, a city that, in 2005, had one of the lowest high school graduation rates of any large American metropolis.
All three students come from differing circumstances: Greg, a single father, left...
- 4/16/2016
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
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