"Try Harder!” Americana Film Festival

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Photo courtesy of Americana Film Festival.

Lowell High, one of San Francisco’s top-ranked public schools, has the reputation of a prison that only teaches “machines." In an educational system where going to university means getting into debt or being offered limited scholarships, getting the best grades is no longer synonymous with a future at the best universities. Stanford, UCLA, Berkley and many other institutions often come up among the fruitless applications of these Z Generation protagonists. Documentary filmmaker Debbie Lum delves into the lives of some of its students and follows them for months during their college application process.           

This documentary closely follows the brilliant minds that, experiencing family pressure and a lack of opportunities, fight to achieve their dreams while trying to preserve their mental health, which is often hanging by a thread. The film will be screened in English with Spanish subtitles.

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