American Promise
Film2013135 min6.7/10 on TMDB
Directed by Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Success is Our Only Option
The story
In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institution was committing to diversify its student body. Their cameras continued to follow both families for another 12 years as the paths of the two boys diverged—one continued private school while the other pursued a very different route through the public education system.
Cast & crew
Michèle Stephenson
Joe BrewsterSelf
Anthony SummersSelfExplore the crew
- Director
- Joe Brewster
- Director
- Michèle Stephenson
- Editor
- Mary Manhardt
- Editor
- Andrew Siwoff
- Editor
- Erin Casper
- Original Music Composer
- Miriam Cutler
- Producer
- Joe Brewster
- Producer
- Michèle Stephenson
- Director of Photography
- Errol Webber
- Director of Photography
- Alfredo Alcántara
- Director of Photography
- Jon Stuyvesant
- Director of Photography
- Margaret Byrne