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Video Preview: A Film About The International Community School

"A Place In The World" is a feature-length documentary that has been in production for several years about the school that will move into Medlock Elementary School in the fall.

Many newspaper and magazine articles and television news spots have been devoted to in Avondale Estates, a virtual United Nations of elementary education.

Refugee children from dozens of nations, plus local children, attend the school.

Now ICS, , is going to be portrayed in a feature-length documentary, A Place in the World. Here is a preview of the movie.

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The movie's website says the film "follows three families with ties to the school, a first-year teacher, and the new principal of the school over the course of two years, as they adapt to, and learn from, this diverse and complex social environment. The film asks the question of whether we can learn to live together in this rapidly changing world."

The movie's Facebook page says it will be released this year. Adam Maurer and William Silva Reddington are the directors.

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