A white, suburban filmmaker sets out to document low income students of color in a Boston night school, and finds it’s his own education that he needs to reckon with.
Director/Co-Producer
James Rutenbeck (Director/Co-producer) is a two-time recipient of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism award. Notable films include Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, Class of ’27, and Scenes from a Parish. His work has appeared on America Reframed, American Experience, Independent Lens, The Atlantic, and NYT Op-Docs.
Co-Producer
Kafi Dixon (Co-Producer) founded Boston’s first cooperative for women and first worker-owned urban farm food co-op, Common Good Co-op. Kafi produced A Reckoning in Boston in response to the socioeconomic experiences of lower-resourced and impoverished communities, and the intimacy of community violence experienced by women in Boston.
Co-Producer
Carl Chandler (Co-Producer) is a debut filmmaker and 3rd generation Bostonian. Carl credits his heritage—rich with Black, western European, and Indigenous ancestry—for his atypical perspective of the “American Dream”. At Clemente Course, he developed a creative collaboration with James Rutenbeck and discovered a new direction for his life.