MADE IN THE BRONX
Dir. Stephen Dypiangco

Running Time: 10:20 | Filmed in: DV, Color | Completed: 2006| Premiere: NY Premiere

SYNOPSIS
At Rocking the Boat, an after school program in the Bronx, a group of high school students learn how to build a sailboat using their hands. This cinema verite documentary follows several teenagers through the boatbuilding process form the very moment they learn to use the tools up to the boat’s completion several months later. Along the way, the students not only create something beautiful, but they also gain practical skills, from new friendships, and have fun.

CAST
Adam Green, Edmanuel Roman, Joshua Gonzalez, Elsie Gonzalez Elliyas Carter, Noel Candelario, Sammy Baez.

CREW
Director, Producer, Editor: Stephen Dypiangco, Cinematagrapher: Jae-Ho Chang.

BIO
A Filipino-American born and raised in Los Angeles, Stephen moved to the East Coast to serve with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. As a volunteer, he lived in Camden, NJ, the country’s most violent city, and he worked with migrant farm workers in neighboring Pennsylvania. Living and working amid unjust urban and rural conditions has motivated Stephen to make socially conscious films. Stephen is a graduate film student at NYU and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Contact: dypiangs@yahoo.com