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LET THE LITTLE LIGHT SHINE

ART OF IMPACT | CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

Director KEVIN SHAW (US 2022) 87 min
Let the Little Light Shine tells the powerful story of the National Teacher’s Academy (NTA), a public elementary school in Chicago that serves a predominantly Black community and is a top-ranked school in the city. When faced with the prospect that NTA will be converted into a high school benefitting an adjacent neighborhood’s gentrifying population, parents, students, administrators, and teachers join together to save their school. But, in a city where the public school administration has almost total power, the school’s closure seems like a foregone conclusion. They say, “You can’t fight city hall.” Will that prove to be the case once again or will the community’s fierce resistance be enough to change history?

IN PERSON: Director KEVIN SHAW, Producer RACHEL DICKSON 

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DIRECTOR

As a director, producer, and cinematographer, KEVIN SHAW has created award-winning content for national television networks. Shaw was a segment director and cinematographer on America to Me, and additional cinematographer on City So Real, both from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steve James. America to Me debuted to high acclaim at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and premiered on Starz in August 2018, where it was lauded as the No. 1 television mini-series of the year by The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times.

Shaw’s debut documentary, The Street Stops Here, aired nationally on PBS and ESPN in 2010 to rave reviews. The following year, Shaw’s Big Ten Network short documentary on a quadriplegic trying to regain the ability to walk won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting Excellence. His cinematography talents were recognized in 2015 with a National Sports Emmy for ESPN’s FIFA World Cup Show Opens and Teases. Later that year, Shaw produced a documentary about the relationship between megastar Shaquille O’Neal and his collegiate coach, Dale Brown. Shaq and Dale premiered on ESPN. Shaw is a Firelight Media Documentary Lab Alum.

FILM INFO

COUNTRY:US
YEAR:2022
RUNNING TIME:87 min
LANGUAGE:English
DIRECTOR:Kevin Shaw
PRODUCERS:
Kevin Shaw, Rachel Dickson

Executive Producer: Steve James

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NOTE WRITER:
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee

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