With support from the Mac Arthur Foundation, Jean-Michel Dissard directed and produced I LEARN AMERICA. Prior to this documentary, Jean-Michel produced critically acclaimed films chronicling adolescent youth, including: "Raising Victor Vargas" by Peter Sollett a fiction about Latino youth in New York City - The film was selected at the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance -- "Rikers High" a Showtime documentary about 3 incarcerated teenagers on NYC's Rikers Island - The film won best New York Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival -- "Ezra" a fiction about the child soldiers of Liberia - Jean-Michel was one of the writer and producer on "Down to the Bone" directed by academy award nominee Debra Granik.

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I Learn America

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I Learn America (Classroo..

In "I Learn America,” five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. At the International High School at Lafayette, a Brooklyn public high school dedicated to new..

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In "I Learn America,” five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. At the International High School at Lafayette, a Brooklyn public high school dedicated to new..