Film Poster for "Purple Dreams". A young girl writes on a chalkboard: low income, crime, hunger, discrimination, and homelessness.

FOLLOW THE THREE YEAR JOURNEY OF A GROUP OF TALENTED AND COURAGEOUS STUDENTS FROM THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL EVER TO PUT ON A PRODUCTION OF THE COLOR PURPLE AS THEY CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, RACISM AND ECONOMIC BARRIERS WITH THE HELP OF THEATER ARTS MENTORS

PURPLE DREAMS

Name: PURPLE DREAMS
Brand: FOLLOW THE THREE YEAR JOURNEY OF A GROUP OF TALENTED AND COURAGEOUS STUDENTS FROM THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL EVER TO PUT ON A PRODUCTION OF THE COLOR PURPLE AS THEY CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, RACISM AND ECONOMIC BARRIERS WITH THE HELP OF THEATER ARTS MENTORS
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AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD & BEST OF FEST - River Run International Film Festival | JURY AWARD - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOCIAL IMPACT - Stony Brook Film Festival | JURY AWARD - MOST INSPIRING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Hollywood Film Festival | GRAND JURY PRIZE - BEST OF FEST - Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival

Theater Arts Education • Equity in Education • Mentorship • Black Youth Perseverance & Talent

African American youth challenge stereotype and barriers in this inspirational documentary shadowing six talented high-school students on an emotionally powerful, three-year journey of transformation in a racially biased city. With access to arts and academic mentors, and especially under the leadership of theater teacher and director Corey Mitchell, they are chosen to be the first high school permitted to perform The Color Purple—the Broadway musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Arts education and the student's own perseverance become pathways out of poverty, homelessness, and gang-related violence. PURPLE DREAMS bears witness to the need for equitable and culturally relevant arts education, especially in underserved communities.

The Independent Critic | © Written by Richard Propes
"A finalist among the doc features screening at the 2017 Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis, Joanne Hock's powerful, life-changing Purple Dreams that turns Black youth stereotypes upside down in this wonderful and spirited documentary that seems destined to be a Heartland Film Fest favorite."

"In the film, 2 1/2-year journey 'serves as an inspirational window into the lives of inner-city, at-risk students who succeed at their passion while embracing the transformative power of their arts education.' It's most beautifully manifested in the school's putting together of a remarkably challenging musical, The Color Purple, a show that is both a master challenge for thespians and a show that is deeply meaningful to the Black students who comprise the majority of the musical's cast."

"Purple Dreams is the kind of documentary that grabs you quickly and before you know it you're completely immersed in its world, a world that takes students, many of whom have faced remarkable challenges from poverty to homelessness to a variety of other huge life obstacles, and offers them the tools and the opportunities to use those challenges to create better lives."

"Purple Dreams is an infectious, emotionally honest film that will likely make you want to run out and enroll your child in Northwest, a North Carolina school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District. This award-winning production of The Color Purple was the first ever full-length high school production of The Color Purple and watching it come to life is exactly what inspiration looks like."

"I found myself engrossed from beginning to end, unable to turn away from their challenges and celebrating their triumphs. I laughed. I cried. I swayed to their music and I wanted everyone attending the upcoming Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis to witness for themselves this remarkable gem of a film that celebrates these children and celebrates the vital importance of arts education."

1More Film Blog | kenmorefield
"Purple Dreams was a good film. I was entertained and inspired."

Front Row at the Movies | Shirrel Rhoades
"[Joanne Hock] perfected her craft well. “Purple Dreams” touches its audience. 'One women after a screening showed me a pocketbook full of used Kleenex,' she recalls. Proof of success that’s more important than festival awards or that the documentary was chosen as a selection in the Southern Circuit Film Series, a touring festival designed to bring the best of new independent film to communities across the South."

The Charlotte Observer | Larry Toppman
"But however far “Purple Dreams” goes, says Danielle Hopkins, it has served its purpose."

“It shows how arts education changed our lives,” she declares. “The opportunity to experience theater in middle and high school shaped who we are. I wouldn’t be able to step back five years later and be myself without that, because the arts train us to be human beings.”

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
"We are inspired by the journeys of Mekhai, Britany, Keston, Phillip, Danielle, and Javontre—who not only find fulfillment in acting, singing, and dancing but also create paths forward in their lives after high school."

AWARDS
Jury Award - Outstanding Achievement in Social Impact | Stony Brook Film Festival
Audience Choice Award & Best of Fest | River Run International Film Festival
Jury Award - Most Inspiring Documentary Feature | Hollywood Film Festival
Audience Choice Award | Footcandle Film Festival
Best Documentary & Audience Choice Awards | Beaufort International Film Festival
Audience Choice Award | Charlotte Film Festival
Semi-Finalist | New York International Film Festival
Finalist | Twin Cities Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize - Best of Fest | Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival
Audience Favorite Feature & Best Documentary Feature | Seattle Children's Film Festival
Finalist | Hollywood Int'l Independent Documentary Awards
Semi-Finalist | International NY Film Festival

FESTIVALS
Full Frame Documentary Festival
Heartland International Film Festival
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival
NY African Film Festival presented by Film Society Lincoln Center
International Thespian Festival
Coronado Film Festival
Southern Circuit
SXSW EDU