Sundance Premiere: Peter Nicks’ ‘Homeroom’ Explores Oakland High School Where Activist Students Don’t Back Down
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deadline.comIn Peter Nicks’ documentary Homeroom, premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival, Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf speaks with a small group of students of color from Oakland High School.A white woman addressing Black and Latino young people, she earnestly tells them, “I want you all to see yourselves as I see you, like the most incredible, powerful, brilliant, amazing, talented human beings on the planet…I just encourage you to, like, know your power and claim it.”These are the kind of pat “inspiring words” that are supposed to demonstrate sensitivity and respect for minority kids.
But the Black and brown students in Homeroom aren’t waiting for permission from a white person to “claim their power.” Later in the film, a group of the same
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