A group of young teenagers plan the perfect heist by breaking into their middle school to change their failing test grades.
Middle school, New York City. Everyone's got a secret. Josh and Rachel have been best friends since second grade, but their relationship is about to change. The Viper has an online blog dedicated to exposing people's innermost secrets and he's just found out the whopper of them all.
Through fly-on-the-wall footage and insightful interviews, director ShakaJamal chronicles the effort to create a first-of-its-kind yoga and mindfulness program for Oakland Unified School District middle schools. Aimed at expanding students’ awareness and refining their goals, the initiative has been a unique success, and I Am Hope offers a poignant portrait of the day-to-day struggles of diverse young people united in their desire to pursue big dreams.
Too Much Life was written by our Screenplay Committee under the guidance of our instructors and took approximately one year to complete the first draft. It is about the difficulties of being a teenager while dealing with parents, friends, social media, grades, teachers, the future and trying to balance and control it all - even when life proves to be unpredictable. The lead character Harper Hudson is based upon the experiences of several of the students that wrote the story.
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
Twelve-year-old mathematics genius Prem discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to learn more about his father’s life and passions. Empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies, Prem is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA.
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Greg Heffley is a scrawny but ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous – he just has to survive middle school first.
Four middle school students, who are the members of a photography club receive an old-fashioned analog camera from their teacher. The teacher asks them to take pictures of 'the end of the world' during summer vacation. While they discuss where would be the end of the world, as one of the girls suggests, they just get on the subway to go to the very last station.
A group of Middle School friends try to solve the mystery of their murdered friend.
A portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.
Taro, who looks like a skull, doesn't stand out at school, but he is blessed with friends like Yasushi, who has a head that looks like the inside of a clam, and finds meaning in seemingly meaningless things as he goes about his daily life.
Hunter is about to ask Wendy to the school dance, but she's hiding a big secret from him...
Before heading off to college, an overthinking teenager asks out a former girlfriend in an effort to reconnect and hold on to his past.
14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.
After experiencing her first heartbreak, Anais declares war on all the boys in 6th grade.
Struggling with feelings for her best friend, 14-year-old Marie stages an almost perfect plan. Playing dangerously with consent, Marie crosses the line as she corners her crush in a blind attempt at what she feels might be love.
During a middle school dance, a boy is struggling with his courage when experiencing his first love.