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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 at BIFF

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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 on Filmmakers Collaborative

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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

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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.

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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.

MassLive reports

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