Juliane Dressner and Edwin Martinez’s film Personal Statement (2018) exposes the lack of college counseling in high schools—especially in high schools where many children are the first college-goers in their families. So kids who get no help at home also have no help at school.

The new documentary "Personal Statement" sheds light on the college admissions process and how it can impact low-income schools. Enoch Jemott, a subject in the film, and director Juliane Dressner joined CBSN to tell us more.

A documentary to be screened on Capitol Hill next month … chronicles the experience of low-income students navigating college admissions.

“Personal Statement” tells the stories of three remarkable Brooklyn high school seniors who have to find their own way through the college application process and the struggles they face in school and at home.

For anyone interested in economic diversity in higher education — as I am — I recommend a new film that follows three high school students in Brooklyn as they try to navigate the application process. It’s called “Personal Statement” and ... (it) describes the hurdles that lower-income students face, from the lack of a single college counselor at many high schools to the byzantine misery of financial aid forms... The film feels particularly timely in the wake of the college admissions scandal.

Lance Kramer was the producer of “City of Trees,” a documentary about three men working in Washington, D.C. to help make this city’s urban forestry and environment become better.

Urban forests serve as more than a backdrop in the documentary films City of Trees and Trees in Trouble. Leaf Litter editor, Amy Nelson, reviews both.

Documentary chronicles nonprofit's obstacles to reducing poverty, violence.

The documentary “City of Trees” follows an organization that connects park revitalization and green job training for residents shut out of the workforce.

Brothers Lance and Brandon Kramer did not envision a big, Hollywood-style production company. As documentarians, they wanted to make films about real people and real issues. They were especially interested in giving voice to untold stories in their native Washington, D.C.

A new documentary shows how trust and respect can be seeds for thriving communities.

In the spirit of “Hoop Dreams,” the riveting vérité documentary “To Be Heard” tracks three young friends in a Bronx high school whose lives are altered through a poetry workshop bent on teaching the power of self-expression

“To Be Heard” is one of the best documentaries of the year.

Three talented high-school students from the Bronx find their voices through a poetry-writing course in “To Be Heard,” a topnotch testimonial to the transformative power of the pen. Reminiscent of the years-spanning intimacy of “Love and Diane” or “Hoop Dreams,” the docu plays like a three-pronged, true-life version of “Precious,” but studded with pithy, evocative verse and without that film’s ingrained sense of otherness. Preeming at the Doc NYC fest, where it topped its competition section and won the audience award, this well-crafted docu, skedded for PBS broadcast next year, merits a theatrical run in the interim.

The feature-length documentary, “To Be Heard,” gives an intimate look at three high school students and friends from the Bronx over four years, inside and outside the classroom.

To Be Heard is a documentary uses the power of language, words and poetry over the ones who can actually use it.

One of the surprise hits of DOC-NY, “To Be Heard” may seem like it’s the same old tired routine, but everyone involved refuses to succumb to mediocrity.