Here They Come: A Review of In My Shoes, a film by Youth Media Activists
In My Shoes
by Urban Arts Partnership
Youth Media Activists.
2009, 28 minutes.
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They are coming. The new hard-hitting filmmakers are bursting the bonds of the chrysalis, and they’re already flexing their wings. Soon they will begin to fly.
In My Shoes is a film written, directed, and produced by a handful of young men and women. The documentary depicts the frightening presence of youth homelessness in New York city and the courageous attempts of four kids to rise out of it. Over 3,800 children slept on the streets of New York last night.
The reasons the youth ended up homeless were different — inability to pay rent, kicked out of homes, abandonment by parents — but the outcome was the same, a hard life on the streets, riding subway cars from dusk until dawn. And the touching fact is that these youth had the resilience to focus on remaining in school. They may have been down and out, but they were strong enough to keep moving forward in a world that seemed hell bent to deny them.
