Karoline, Christine and Enoch are high school seniors who want to be the first generation in their families to go to college, and they are determined to bring their friends with them. That's why they work as peer college counselors in their schools even as they reach towards their own college dreams. Karoline, Christine and Enoch are fighting for the right to a better future, for themselves and for every single one of their classmates.
Direction
Intimate vérité access that never exploits, only amplifies.
Writing
Natural storytelling; no narrator needed when stakes speak this loudly.
Director
Juliane Dressner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The peer counselor program featured was created by teens after budget cuts eliminated 40% of NYC school guidance counselors in 2013.
Released during the 2018 college admissions scandal coverage, making the documentary's working-class subjects accidental counter-programming to Lori Loughlin's headlines.
US
