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After earning raves at the Sundance Film Festival, the first trailer for the new documentary “Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street” digs into the origin of the long-running children’s TV show.

It’s played all over the world in countless languages, but if you grew up in North America, chances are nothing is more beloved from your childhood than the children’s educational program “Sesame Street.” And it’s hard to understand and put in context just how groundbreaking “Sesame Street” was at the time, and how influential; a project that saw the power of television in the 1970s and aimed to create an entertaining tool that would also teach children. But that’s exactly what’s done in the critically-acclaimed documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street.

EFM Deal For Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street

Screen Media has picked up the North American theatrical rights to the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street ahead of its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres sidebar. Screen Media will release the HBO Documentary Film in theaters and on home entertainment in spring 2021.

A is for Acquisition! Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s company Screen Media has acquired the North American rights to HBO’s Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street ahead of its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Screen Media is set to release the docu in theaters and into the home entertainment market in Spring 2021. The HBO Documentary Film will debut on HBO and HBO Max later in the year.

Dave McNary Film ReporterScreen Media has bought North American rights to HBO’s “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” and will premiere the title at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in January.The documentary, inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book, is directed by Marilyn Agrelo and produced by Trevor Crafts and Ellen Scherer Crafts. The film chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed children’s television programming, but had real-world effects on equality, education and representation worldwide.Screen Media will release in theaters and into the home entertainment market in the spring of 2021.