Award-winning director Vanessa Roth tends to look deeply into social justice issues in her documentaries -- the effectiveness of the foster care system in Aging Out, the repurcussions of that film in No Tomorrow, equal rights for a lesbian couple in Freeheld (Roth produced), and schools and education in American Teacher and The Third Monday in October. Her most recent film, The Texas Promise, hits close to home as it peers into the state budget cuts to education in Texas. This new documentary from Roth will debut at Austin Film Festival later this week.
Roth answered a few of my questions via email about her work.
Slackerwood: Why is education a recurring theme in your works?
Vanessa Roth: I have so much to say about this that I don’t know where to begin... education as a theme is what all my work focuses on because it is the...
Roth answered a few of my questions via email about her work.
Slackerwood: Why is education a recurring theme in your works?
Vanessa Roth: I have so much to say about this that I don’t know where to begin... education as a theme is what all my work focuses on because it is the...
- 10/22/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
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