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This film explores what public education meant to South Bronx Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana, and what he, in turn, meant to public education.
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Sep 17, 2020 · Director Lillian LaSalle traces the breadth of her subject’s life from humble beginnings—growing up impoverished in the South Bronx—to his latter days as an international educational consultant. Both Santana and his family admit that he was a problem child as a result of a learning disability.
Oct 28, 2020 · My Name is Pedro, the feature directorial debut of talent manager and film producer Lillian LaSalle, follows one educator’s quest to shake things up and the inevitable acclaim and backlash that will result from bucking such a well established and complacent system.
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Oct 9, 2020 · First time director Lillian LaSalle’s award-winning, powerful, and intimate documentary My Name Is Pedro, explores what public education meant to the South Bronx Latino maverick educator. But more importantly, what Santana meant to public education.
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Mar 31, 2021 · Pedro Santana was an educator who thought outside of the box. After a 2014 prologue, talent manager Lillian LaSalle's directorial debut begins in 2011 while he was serving as assistant superintendent for New York's East Ramapo Central School District.
When a glowing front page New York Times article catapults him into the spotlight, he is recruited and then accepts a promotion to use his famed 'out of the box' and transformative practices to save a corrupt and divided suburban school district.
Oct 27, 2020 · In telling Pedro Santana’s story, director and producer Lillian LaSalle employs techniques that a regular documentary uses. There’s the sit down interviews with his siblings telling viewers about Pedro’s time in the peace corps in Kenya.
