Red Emma’s

2640docs is proud to present the Baltimore premiere of Southeast 67. Director Betsy Cox and subject Steve Bumbaugh will do a Q&A after the screening.   Devastated by the arrival of crack cocaine in the 1980s, Washington DC became known as the “Murder Capital” of the country. Growing up at the epicenter of this violence—in southeast DC—67 rising seventh graders were promised college scholarships by a wealthy area businessman. Southeast 67 focuses on the students' struggles to reconcile the dream of college with daily survival in a community rife with violence, poverty, and addiction. Blowing up the simplistic bootstrap narrative of success, this documentary combines raw archival footage with intimate interviews with the students, twenty years later, as they reflect on the hope and anguish of trying to seize an improbable dream.   This is a free screening.   SOUTHEAST 67 | USA | ENGLISH | 72MINS | 2014