Maureen Marovitch

When Longshots premiered in 1994, the film was recognized as being at the forefront of a whole new movement of putting filmmaking into the hands of documentary subjects. The film careens through six unpredictable weeks in the lives of a group of street-kids, as they learn to make films in a video workshop. The streetwise subjects, ranging in age from 17 to 23 years old, are a challenging class: sometimes they don’t show up at all, and one has to be bailed out of jail. But they have a passion to create and tell stories. As they work at documenting their experiences on videotape, we discover their world and hidden dreams.

In this follow up to the Longshots (1994), a group of at risk youth spend a weekend with a group of former street kids who did a similar workshop a decade earlier. Now in their 30s, they share their stories with their younger counterparts. Surprising, and often disturbing, parallels emerge between the two groups, along with glimmers of hope for the youth.

A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community that brought its members fame - and its owner infamy.

When Longshots premiered in 1994, the film was recognized as being at the forefront of a whole new movement of putting filmmaking into the hands of documentary subjects. The film careens through six unpredictable weeks in the lives of a group of street-kids, as they learn to make films in a video workshop. The streetwise subjects, ranging in age from 17 to 23 years old, are a challenging class: sometimes they don’t show up at all, and one has to be bailed out of jail. But they have a passion to create and tell stories. As they work at documenting their experiences on videotape, we discover their world and hidden dreams.

In this follow up to the Longshots (1994), a group of at risk youth spend a weekend with a group of former street kids who did a similar workshop a decade earlier. Now in their 30s, they share their stories with their younger counterparts. Surprising, and often disturbing, parallels emerge between the two groups, along with glimmers of hope for the youth.

A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community that brought its members fame - and its owner infamy.

A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community that brought its members fame - and its owner infamy.

A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community that brought its members fame - and its owner infamy.