Documentary Feature
Harvest of Dreams: ten years
of success stories at the iCanDream Center
(Cosechando sueños: diez años de historias en iCanDream Center)
© 2023. Length: 1 hour and 6 mins. 4K 16:9 aspect ratio.
Directing, Editing · Daniel Rodríguez, Steven Danridge
Executive Producer: Dr. Evisha Ford
Features: Travon Bell, Louis D'Antonio, Victor Medina, Mariah Roberts, Dylan Sichelski, Arianna Woods, Garee Harper, Guy Bailey
"Harvest of Dreams" follows a group of senior students enrolled at the high school credit recovery program iCanDream Center, a one-of-a-kind institute that offers holistic and innovative special education services in the depths of located in suburban Chicago. The high school program helps students who didn't succeed in a traditional setting graduate. Students often deal with socio-emotional disabilities and face economic challenges, yet, the program has kept a 100% graduation rate for over ten years now.
How can this happen when its population is labeled as one of the hardest to work with in a school setting? Harvest of Dreams dives not just in what makes the Center special, but in all we as viewers can learn from its resilient students.