Streetwise

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This unflinching look at teens living on the streets of Seattle was one of the first documentaries to deal with the ever-growing plight of homelessness among young people. It began as a Life magazine article by photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark and writer Cheryl McCall; Mark and her husband, director Martin Bell, went back to Seattle to film the daily lives of the throwaw... Full Summary >>

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Unapologetic and remarkably non-judgmental, Streetwise is a model documentary. It's not that filmmakers Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark are indifferent to the desperation and anguish of their subjects -- teens living on the streets of a very prosperous city. But they refuse to turn these kids' stories into cloying moments of lost opport... Continue >>

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