The Boys of Baraka

The Boys of Baraka

Infobox_Film
name = The Boys of Baraka


director = Heidi Ewing
Rachel Grady
starring = Devon Brown
Richard Keyser
music = J.J. McGeehan
cinematography = Marco Franzoni
Tony Hardmon
editing = Enat Sidi
producer = Heidi Ewing
Rachel Grady
distributor = ITVS
released = 30 November 2005
runtime = 84 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0444608
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"The Boys of Baraka" is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (both of whom also made Jesus Camp in 2006). Twenty at-risk boys from Baltimore attend the seventh and eighth grades at a boarding school in Kenya. The documentary follows them in Kenya and in Baltimore, before and after attending the Baraka School in Kenya. It also mentions that 76% of African Americans in Baltimore don't graduate High School.

It won the Audience Award Best Feature Film at the 2005 Silverdocs Festival at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Other showings have included the Green Mountain Film Festival in Vermont.

External links

* [http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/boysofbaraka/special_clips.html Additional Scenes on PBS.org]
* [http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/boysofbaraka/update.html Update on the Boys on PBS.org]


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