Though they may live in Los Angeles, many high school kids in Southern California still don’t believe in their Hollywood dreams. To promote better understanding of the movie industry for the youth who live in the middle of it, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started the Media Literacy Program about 18 years ago. This year, the program honored the 25th Anniversary of the film Stand and Deliver starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips, which tells the true story of math teacher Jaimie Escalante who inspired his students at an East L.A. high school in the early 1980s.
- 11/9/2013
- by Jake Perlman
- EW.com - PopWatch
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