interview ON NEPM’S “THE FABULOUS 413”
Star Kayla Staley & Writer/Director Wade Wofford discuss the film on The Fab 413
NEPM’s daily radio show, The Fabulous 413, which features all things interesting in western Massachusetts hosted URBAN ED’s star Kayla Staley and Writer/Director/Producer Wade Wofford in their studio yesterday to discuss the film. Listen here.
URBAN ED accepted into Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
URBAN ED going to MVAAFF.
URBAN ED's 2nd Massachusetts screening will come during MVAAF's 23rd festival August 1st > 9th at the Center for the Arts on the Vineyard.
MassLive: Wade Wofford discusses movie’s Springfield roots
Wofford discusses film’s local origins.
MassLive did an interview with Writer/Director/Producer Wade Wofford about the origins of the script. You'll hit a pay-wall if you don't have a subscription to read the article on MassLive, but can read a PDF of the article here.
World Premiere Event April 12th @ BIFF
URBAN ED World Premiere in Boston.
We're proud to announce that URBAN ED will host its World Premiere at Boston International Film Festival on Saturday, April 12th at 7pm - at the Sims IMAX Theater within the New England Aquarium in Boston.
URBAN ED financed via Slated!
Slated makes URBAN ED possible.
Slated, the platform for packaging and financing independent films, has successfully matched Writer/Director Wade Wofford with Producer Jon Stahl. And made our film possible!
URBAN ED partners with Filmmakers Collaborative
Filmmakers Collaborative offers non-profit sponsorship.
Filmmakers Collaborative, a tax-exempt organization that provides low cost fiscal sponsorship to independent media makers, has taken URBAN ED on as a narrative project. Through this relationship, URBAN ED as a production is able to apply for grants available only to non-profits, which the production will use to finance paid internships for inner city students and young adults interested in roles in film production.
URBAN ED makes top 1% of feature scripts on Coverfly
URBAN ED is top 1% of all screenplays globally.
Following placements in the Nicholls Fellowship, SceenCraft's Film Fund, PAGE International's Screenwriting Competition, and WeScreenplay's Diverse Voices - Coverfly has given URBAN ED a "Top 1% Overall scripts" designation.
URBAN ED screenplay places semi-finalist at Nicholls
URBAN ED places Semi-Finals at Nicholls.
We are proud to announce that Wade Wofford’s screenplay for URBAN ED placed in the Semi-Finals at the 2022 Academy of Motion Picture’s Nicholls Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Wofford’s script advanced along 125 other screenwriters, from a pool of 5,526 scripts from over 80 countries. That puts URBAN ED in the top 2% of screenplays authored this year! This is an important story!
The Academy of Motion Pictures Official 2022 List of Semi-Finalists
URBAN ED wins Stowe Story Labs Fellowship
Stowe honors screenwriter Wade Wofford.
5 years after the closure of his school, Wade Wofford’s screenplay inspired by what happened to his former students hits the world for public read, and instantly picks up a Stowe Fellowship.
New Leadership Charter School Closes
Our film was born from a real moment of injustice.
New Leadership Charter School, a grade 6>12 school with approximately 600 students located near the X in Springfield, Massachusetts, was shut down by the state of Massachusetts. Students, parents and teachers caravanned to the Department of Secondary Education in Boston for a hearing on the school’s closure. Amongst them was Wade Wofford, teacher of 9th and 10th grade English and teacher representative on the school’s Board of Directors. At the hearing, DESE allowed 3 speakers 3 minutes each to speak in support of their school. At the conclusion of their 9 minutes, the gavel came down; the school is closed.
It was this moment that inspired Wofford (URBAN ED's Writer/Director/Producer) to begin the script that would become our film.