The Boys of Baraka

The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Twenty atrisk boys from Baltimore attend the seventh and eighth grades at a boarding school in Kenya. The documentary follows them in Kenya and in Baltimore, before and after attending the Baraka School in Kenya. It also mentions that 61 of African Americans in Baltimore do not graduate from high school.

The Boys of Baraka won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film, as well as Best Documentary Awards at the Chicago and Newport film festivals, a special Jury Award at South by Southwest SXSW, and Audience Awards at the Woodstock and SILVERDOCS film festivals.Devon Brown, Montrey Moore, Richard Keyser, Jr., and Richards younger brother, Romesh Vance, are just at that age andyears old when boys start to become men. On the harsh streets of a city like Baltimore, Maryland, where the four boys live, that passage presents choices that are far more makeorbreak, even lifeordeath, than anything faced by their counterparts in the suburbs or the middleclass districts of the city. Will they want to become part of the lure of the drug trade? Will they, against the odds, continue their education? Or one day will they simply, whether the intended target or not, stop a bullet? Given the odds against them, do these boys have the power to make a choice? What choice will they make? The choice is theirs. ........

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