The Parent Association Families for Ethnic and Cultural Diversity at Friends Select School will host a special, one-time only Philadelphia-area public screening of
The Prep School Negro on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, at the Blauvelt Theatre. From 6 to 6:30 p.m., the school will host a reception with director and producer André Lee, followed by a screening of the film and a question and answer with Lee. Independent School Consortium is sponsoring the reception.
The Prep School Negro is the searing account of one man's journey between two worlds: a struggling, inner city neighborhood, and Germantown Friends School, the elite prep school just a few miles away.
How he navigates that journey, and the personal price he pays, is the subject of Lee's hour-long documentary.
Juxtaposing the events of Lee's adolescence in the1980s with interviews of current prep school students of color and their classmates, Lee poses the provocative question: What, if anything, has changed in the last two decades? The answer may surprise you.
The event is free and open to the public.