Apr 15, 2010
Festival
The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22-May 6) announces that “Waiting For ‘Superman,'” the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary from Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim and Lesley Chilcott, the director and producers of the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, has just been added to the Festival schedule. The film, winner of the Sundance audience award for best documentary, will play once only at 6:45 pm, Wednesday, May 5 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, with Guggenheim expected to attend.
“Waiting For ‘Superman‘” which critics have called “exhilarating,” “heartbreaking” and “righteous” is a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States told through multiple interlocking stories-from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a broken system.
The film features interviews with some of the issues’ foremost experts including philanthropist Bill Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone Geoffrey Canada, chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools Michelle Rhee and president of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten.
“Waiting For ‘Superman‘” is directed and produced by Davis Guggenheim and written by Guggenheim and Billy Kimball. Lesley Chilcott is the producer, with Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann serving as executive producers. The cinematographers are Erich Roland and Bob Richman. Greg Finton, Jay Cassidy and Kim Roberts served as the editors.
Paramount Vantage will release “Waiting For ‘Superman”” in the fall of 2010 in the U.S. with international release dates not yet determined.
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