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Lost in La Mancha stands as the first and only verité chronicle of the collapse of a major motion picture and was an international theatrical success. Keith Fulton (Producer/Director/Sound) and Lou Pepe (Producer/Director/Cinematographer) are award-winning filmmakers of both documentary and fiction films, among them Lost in La Mancha, which was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Documentary, shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar, and winner of the Evening Standard's Peter Sellers Award.

About such a crisis, one can make a film that speechifies and rattles off facts and figures, but at Black Rock we have the opportunity to create a moving and immersive drama that brings to life an inspiring attempt to combat this issue. It is a school that tackles head-on America’s most serious education problem: intractable, generational poverty. At Black Rock High we have found precisely that. It is the greatest hope of any documentarian to gain intimate access to a subject that dramatically represents a pressing human issue.

All of this at a public school … with rising graduation rates. Here was a safety net to catch the very problems that were causing other teachers and schools to ‘fail.’ Here was a principal who had a kind word or nod of recognition for each and every kid a secretary who spent all day on the phone with parents teachers who didn’t lecture but moved through their classrooms in quiet consultation with each student and these supposed ‘bad kids’ lining the hallways with their guitars, their laughter, their clear and familial support for one another. What we saw there left an indelible mark. It was during one of our scouts for Teaching Channel in the Joshua Tree area that we first stepped through the doors of Black Rock High.

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