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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: homestretch
  name:
    name part: De Mare, Anne
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: screenwriter.
  name:
    name part: Kelly, Kirsten
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: screenwriter.
  name:
    name part: Simmer, Leslie
    role:
      role term: screenwriter,
    role:
      role term: film editor.
  name:
    name part: Taber, Katie
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Kalember, Greg
    role:
      role term: composer.
  name:
    name part: Spargel Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Kartemquin Films
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Bullfrog Films
    role:
      role term: distribution company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 1 videodisc (approximately 89 min. ) : DVD video, sound, color ; 12 cm.
  abstract: The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers - Roque, Kasey and Anthony - will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age. Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, these teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us deeply with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights. With unprecedented access into the Chicago Public Schools, The Night Ministry's Crib emergency youth shelter and Teen Living Programs' Belfort House, The Homestretch follows these kids as they move through the milestones of high school while navigating a landscape of couch hopping, emergency shelters, transitional homes, street families and a school system on the front lines of this crisis. The film, a co-production between Spargel Productions and Kartemquin Films, examines the struggles these youth face in obtaining a high school level education, and then follows them beyond graduation to focus on the crucial transition when the structure of school vanishes and homeless youth struggle to find the support and community they need to survive and be independent. A powerful, original perspective on what it means to be young, homeless and building a future in America today.
  note: produced and directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly ; a coproduction of Spargel Productions and Kartemquin Films.
  note: DVD video, NTSC.
  note: In English with English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
  note: Executive producers, Justin Nagan, Gordon Quinn, Andrew W. Schwertfeger; edited by Leslie Simmer; written by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly, Leslie Simmer ; coproducer, Katie Taber; original music by Greg Kalember.
  subject:
    topic: Homeless teenagers
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: Homeless students
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minorities
  identifier: 1941545203
  identifier: 9781941545201
  record info:
    record content source: VRC
    record creation date: 150203
    record change date: 20151206125635.0
    record identifier: in00003503668