Left Behind
Hosted by NAACP Mid Town Manhattan
Virtual
When
Feb 2, 6:05 PM EST
Price
Free Screening
Available in
Worldwide
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About the event
Left Behind is honored we are to have been nominated for an NAACP Image Award. This is the story that we wanted to tell, to change the conversation around dyslexia, and show the children who are being left behind, and how denying kids a diagnosis and public resources is the basis of education inequality.
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Event Participants
Christine Waters
NYS State NAACP
Naomi Peña
Literacy Academy Collective
Resha Conroy
Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children
Debbie Meyer, Iona University
& NAACP Mid Manhattan
About the film
This gripping feature documentary tells the story of five tenacious mothers determined to establish the first public school in New York City for children with dyslexia. Addressing a learning disability that impacts an estimated 200,000 students in NYC, and roughly 20% of the public at large, the mothers’ struggle to upend the nation’s largest public school system and garner support to open the South Bronx Literacy Academy in September 2023.
Winner SOHO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025
Nominated, NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FILM, 2026
Genre
Documentary
Released
2024
Director
Anna Toomey
Producer
Chris Farrell, Larry Mullen Jr, Sian Edwards-Beal, David Beal, Mari Keiko-Gonzalez