Film maker Andre Robert Lee will be appearing on the campus of New Canaan Country School to show his movie, "The Prep School Negro" on Weds, 11/2 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Lee, who grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia, won a scholarship at age 14 to attend a prestigious prep school.
Elite education was Andre’s way up and out, but at what price? Yes, the exorbitant tuition was covered, but this new world cost him and his family much more than anyone could have anticipated.
In 'The Prep School Negro,' André takes a journey back in time to revisit the events of his adolescence while also spending time with current day prep school students of color and their classmates to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower. What he discovers along the way is the poignant and unapologetic truth about who really pays the consequences for yesterday’s accelerated desegregation and today’s racial naiveté.
