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OUR SCHOOL is a feature-length vérité documentary which follows over two years three Roma (“Gypsyâ€) children struggling to break the barriers of segregation in a small Transylvanian town. Rejected by teachers, they find strength in the friendship of Romanian classmates.
The descendants of former slaves, Romanian Roma, like Roma throughout Europe, live in poverty at the edges of society. They suffer discrimination in all areas of their life, including education. The film documents one of the first school integration efforts following a European Court of Human Rights judgment similar to Brown v. Board of Education in the US.
The film is produced and directed by Mona Nicoara. Together with Co-Director Miruna Coca-Cozma and Director of Photography Ovidiu Marginean , we have shot over 100 hours of footage over a period of two years. We are currently preparing for post-production in New York, with Editor Jonathan Oppenheim .
For more details, visit the project profile in the Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media Database.