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Oct 15, 2005 · The Boys of Baraka: Directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady. With Devon Brown, Darius Chambers, Edward Bernard Green Jr., Richard Keyser. Twenty 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can't get in their own country.
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- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
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The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The documentary follows twenty boys from Baltimore, Maryland who spend their seventh and eighth grade years at a rural boarding school in northern Kenya. It premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2005, where it won the ...
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- Devon Brown, Richard Keyser
Mar 2, 2006 · Here is a movie that makes you want to do something. Cry, or write a check, or howl with rage. It tells the story of 20 "high risk" inner-city black boys, 12 and 13 years old, who are lifted out of the Baltimore school system and given scholarships to the Baraka School. Where is Baraka? In Kenya, in an area poorer than the ghettos of Baltimore. There's not even full-time electricity. Here they ...
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The Boys of Baraka reveals the human face of a tragic statistic -- 61 percent of Baltimore's African-American boys fail to graduate from high school; 50 percent of them go on to jail. The four young boys featured in The Boys of Baraka , despite individual talents and considerable personal charms, cannot escape the common fate expressed by those ...
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- September 12, 2006
Nov 30, 2005 · The Boys of Baraka. The interviewed boys are compelling subjects, but the documentary would be better if the filmmakers had provided more factual details. This documentary follows a group of ...
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