ABOUT THE PROJECT
LOGLINE
High school students in the South Bronx become leaders of a movement to end school segregation in New York City, winning significant battles in their fight for equality.
SYNOPSIS
When a new Latino principal introduces social justice into their curriculum, students at the Bronx Academy of Letters feel empowered to fight for their right to equal resources and opportunities. They create an organization, IntegrateNYC, and turn it into a citywide movement. They mobilize young people across New York City to lobby for access to sports, computers, AP classes, college advisors, teachers that look like them, a history that respects their culture, and policies that protect students from the school to prison pipeline. These students organize, march, protest, and testify in front of the NYC Council for an end to racial inequalities throughout the school system.
FAIR PLAY follows Matt Diaz, Amina Fofana and Lisa Parks, three of the student leaders, as they become social justice activists supported by their teachers and coach. They start with sports equity, winning the passing of a bill to expose the unequal allocation of sports teams in the city’s public schools. They sue the Department of Education and after a long battle, they win their sports equity lawsuit in a groundbreaking settlement!
They then decide to take on inequality in the entire school system and sue the City for their right to an antiracist education. They demand an end to racial discrimination in the curriculum, in the policing of students of color, and in the effective segregation of resources between majority white and majority Black and brown schools.
Through these struggles each one of them changes and is able to envision different versions of their own future. They gain strength from realizing that it is the system they’re trying to change, not an individual predicament.
Filmed over seven years, FAIR PLAY is an uplifting story of young people leading, fighting and beginning to win on issues that have plagued American public schools for decades.
PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature
DIRECTOR Tina Charles
PRODUCER Véronique Bernard, Susan Kahn
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