ABOUT THE FILM
Ten years in the making, IN THE RED is a feature documentary about transformation, about growing up young and poor in one of the wealthiest areas in the Unites States. Seeing America through a different lens, what does it mean to change one’s life? How can someone’s history be left behind? The young people featured in the film have the opportunity to do both. Their lifeline to a new life, a new history, is a free program in Oakland, California to train them to become firefighters and first responders. The film – raw, intimate and unapologetically funny – follows their lives for more than a decade. Not everyone will succeed. But for those who make it through, their lives will be forever changed.
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