I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

I Am a Promise

Directed by	Susan Raymond
Produced by	Alan Raymond Susan Raymond
Cinematography	Alan Raymond
Music by	Tom Verlaine
Production company	Video Verite Films
Distributed by	HBO
Release date	1993 (1993)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School is a 1993 American documentary film about the pupils at Stanton Elementary School, an inner city school in Philadelphia.^[1]^[2] It was aired on HBO as part of its America Undercover series.^[3]

Accolades

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The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature^[4] for producers^[5] Alan and Susan Raymond.^[6] It also was the recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Informational Special and a 1995 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award^[7]^[8]

Production

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The husband and wife documentarians were also the cinematographer and editor (Alan) as well as director and narrator (Susan) for the film.

References

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^ TV Guide
^ WorldCat
^ EW.com
^ Documentary Short Subject and Feature Winners in 1994 - Oscars on YouTube
^ 1994|Oscars.org
^ "NY Times: I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
^ Paley Center
^ "I am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School".

External links

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I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School at IMDb
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School at Video Verite Films
Peabody Award acceptance speech

Awards for I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

v t e Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
1942–1975	The Battle of Midway / Kokoda Front Line! / Moscow Strikes Back / Prelude to War (1942) Desert Victory (1943) The Fighting Lady (1944) The True Glory (1945) No Award (1946) Design for Death (1947) The Secret Land (1948) Daybreak in Udi (1949) The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Kon-Tiki (1951) The Sea Around Us (1952) The Living Desert (1953) The Vanishing Prairie (1954) Helen Keller in Her Story (1955) The Silent World (1956) Albert Schweitzer (1957) White Wilderness (1958) Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959) The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1961) Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962) Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) World Without Sun (1964) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) The War Game (1966) The Anderson Platoon (1967) Journey into Self (1968) Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (1969) Woodstock (1970) The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) Marjoe (1972) The Great American Cowboy (1973) Hearts and Minds (1974) The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
1976–2000	Harlan County, USA (1976) Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977) Scared Straight! (1978) Best Boy (1979) From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980) Genocide (1981) Just Another Missing Kid (1982) He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983) The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Broken Rainbow (1985) Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got / Down and Out in America (1986) The Ten-Year Lunch (1987) Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) American Dream (1990) In the Shadow of the Stars (1991) The Panama Deception (1992) I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993) Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) Anne Frank Remembered (1995) When We Were Kings (1996) The Long Way Home (1997) The Last Days (1998) One Day in September (1999) Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
2001–present	Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Born into Brothels (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) Inside Job (2010) Undefeated (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Citizenfour‎ (2014) Amy (2015) O.J.: Made in America (2016) Icarus (2017) Free Solo (2018) American Factory (2019) My Octopus Teacher (2020) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Navalny (2022) 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
1970s	The Body Human / The Great Whales: National Geographic Special (1978) Scared Straight! (1979)
1980s	The Body Human: The Magic Sense (1980) The Body Human: The Bionic Breakthrough / Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds (1981) Creativity with Bill Moyers / The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982) The Barbara Walters Specials / The Body Human: The Living Code (1983) A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers / America Remembers John F. Kennedy (1984) * Cousteau: Mississippi / The Living Planet (1985) Laurence Olivier: A Life (Great Performances) / Planet Earth / W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986) Agnes, the Indomitable DeMille (Great Performances) / Smithsonian World / Unknown Chaplin (American Masters) (1987) Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (American Masters) / Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam / Nature (1988) Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (American Masters) / Nature (1989)
1990s	Bob Fosse: Steam Heat (Great Performances) / Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (American Masters) / Smithsonian World (1990) The Civil War / Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter (American Masters) (1991) Abortion: Desperate Choices / MGM: When Lions Roared (1992) Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers / Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993) I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School / Later with Bob Costas (1994) Baseball / One Survivor Remembers / Taxicab Confessions / TV Nation (1995) Survivors of the Holocaust / Time Life's Lost Civilizations (1996) Biography / The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century / National Geographic Special: Tigers of the Snow / Without Pity: A Film About Abilities (1997)
2010s	Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown / Inside the Actors Studio (2013) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown / Vice (2014) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2015) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2016) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (2017) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2018) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2019)
2020s	Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (2020) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2021) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2022) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2023) My Next Guest with David Letterman and John Mulaney (2024)
Between 1998–2012, the award was bestowed as Outstanding Nonfiction Series.

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