A still from the documentary (Photo – Arroyo Seco Films).
PASADENA – ColoradoBoulevard.net:
A new documentary explores how Pasadena’s John Muir High School went from a model of integration to raising questions on the current and future state of diversity in public education.
By News Desk
PBS SoCal and KCET announced the broadcast premiere of the new documentary Can We All Get Along?: The Segregation of John Muir High School.
The award-winning documentary follows Pasadena’s John Muir High School alumnus and filmmaker Pablo Miralles who returns to his formerly integrated school. He discovers that things have changed since he graduated in 1982, and reflects on whether-or-not to send his own son to the school.
Can We All Get Along? premieres Thursday, Sept. 8 at 8:30 pm on PBS SoCal and Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 8:00 pm. on KCET.
Can We All Get Along?
At his 30th high school reunion, Miralles questions what has happened to his once integrated public high school. Gradually he begins to understand how perceptions and policies have created almost insurmountable challenges to maintaining well-funded and diverse public schools. The documentary weaves stories from alumni, administrators, and civic leaders of John Muir High School’s multi-cultural community. It also features Interviews with Bill Boggard, Ramón Cortines, Renee Tajima-Pena and more to illustrate the complex history of Pasadena’s schools and the 1970 court order that created the first Federal desegregation plan outside of the south.
Produced by Arroyo Seco Films, the documentary Can We All Get Along? was an official selection of New York’s New Filmmakers Festival, a Semi-Finalist in the DUMBO Film Festival, a nomination for Best Documentary Short by the Burbank International Film Festival and received additional honors from the Telly Awards, the IndieFest Film Awards, Accolade Global Film Competition, and the Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival.
Pablo Miralles
Writer, Director and Producer Pablo Miralles is a graduate of John Muir High School (Class of ’82) and has over 30 years of experience in the visual communications field. He was the creator, writer, director, and producer of the award-winning feature documentary “Gringos at the Gate – Soccer and the US Mexico Divide” (2012), a film which examines the history and passion surrounding one of the world’s greatest national soccer rivalries. Pablo served as Production Coordinator on Cedar Grove Productions’ Academy Award winning short film “Visas and Virtue” and Co-Producer on their Emmy nominated short film, “Day of Independence.” Other professional experience has included motion picture and television projects at Mess Media, UBU, CBS, Neo Motion Pictures, Triangle Productions, Commercial Pictures, and Village Roadshow Pictures. He received his BA from Sonoma State University and his MFA from the UCLA Graduate Film Program, where he won both the UCLA “Spotlight” and MPAA “Student Filmmaker” awards.
> kcet.org/CanWeAllGetAlong and pbssocal.org/CanWeAllGetAlong Select programming will also be available to stream on PBS.org and the free PBS App.
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