video excerpts of the productions of GREENWAY Arts Alliance
SENIOR YEAR - THE VIDEO WITH OZOMOTLI
During the 1999/2000 school year, six young filmmakers
followed a diverse group of 15 teenagers through their last year in public
school. It was a pivotal period for each of them, living on the fulcrum
between teenage life and the adult world they face.
The students attended Fairfax High, the most diverse high school in Los
Angeles, and each filmmaker spent the entire year with two to three kids,
documenting their world. The students were also given cameras to make video
diaries throughout the course of the year, creating a whole new level of
intimacy and personal storytelling.
They are teenagers -- with all the joys, fears and pains of that age that
are universal and timeless; yet the landscape of their world is on the
cutting edge of a new culture emerging with the millennium. It's a mix that
makes for a series that is dramatic and compelling -- a landmark broadcast
event for teenagers and adults alike.
Senior Year, a 13-part series, was first broadcast in the United States on
PBS starting January 11, 2002.
