Documentaries

Click the drop down menus below to view student work from the 2020 Contest season! These projects placed in the top three at their Regional Contests and are all advancing to the State Contest. 

Junior group documentary

Alles Het Verander (Everything Has Changed) 
by ​Benjamin Enos, Charlotte Strange, Maia Gubitz, Kate Barnes, and Tyler Rockwell

Valentina Tereshkova: Launching New Horizons for Women
by Saanvi Rao and Taruni Pendyala

RBG’s Continued Fight for Gender Equality
by Isabella Chimento and Ayden Navarro​

Anna Louise James: The Unintentional Role Model
by Vic Munster, Leeha Reddy, Vaishnavi Yalamanchi, Alejandra Morales, Natalie Houlton

Mother Ella
by ​Nasir Mitchell, Grace Perez, Caden Weatherspoon, Sicily Rose

Karl Benz
by Priscilla Rivera and Patrick Clements-Dolan

Celebrating Temple – a Woman with Unique Personality
by Anna Tavoletti, Caitlin Flaherty, Nihitha Nelakudity, and Kate Hawn

Amelia Earhart’s Forgotten Past in Activism
by Sebastian Halpern and Isaac Kleppner

Faithful Female Voices Break the Spirits
by Amelie Jose, Samantha Evans, Leah Joseph, and Katherine Vongsouvanh

Rosie Cracks Barriers on the Homefront
by Katherine Kennon and Evelyn Chun

The Deafening Sound of Barriers Being Broken: The American School for the Deaf
by Leah Glaspey and Nandini Shah

junior individual documentary

No One Told Her Ladies Shouldn’t Work: Elizabeth Colt Breaking Gender Barriers
by Annabel Probolus

​A Bright IDEA: Policies that Broke Barriers in Education 
by Kate Paradise

Sex, Drugs, and Baker & Gore: The Story of the PMRC
by Sam Aurilio 

Seekers of Equality: How The Haitian Revolution Broke Barriers
by Christian Pierre

Changing Times and Changing Minds
by Shen Wan

In an Agent of Death, a Lifesaving Medicine: The Discovery of Chemotherapy
by Ghita Elamrani

Maria Montessori: From Doctor to Education Innovator
by Saidan Thapa

Stonewall: Before The Parade There Was A Riot! 
by Sebastian Bianchine

Alexander Fleming: Discovering Penicillin 
by Ranya Tarabar

Dial Painting Predicaments: The Radium Girls Breaking Barriers
by Sarah Gerg

Viewing Barbara Walters
by Jenna Saltzman

Samuel Colt: The Journey to Breaking Barriers and Changing America
by Andrew Zhong

senior group documentary

​“This kind of bird flies backward”: How Women of the San Francisco Beat Literary Circle Transgressed the Cultural Norm of Femininity
by Anushree Unni, Tanvi Dongaonkar, Katherine DeRose, Avery Genet, and Anjana Rajah 

Medical Breakthrough of Anesthesia
by Isabella Testanero, Javeria Jalil, and Martha Atakora

Morse’s Telegraph and Its Impact on Communication
by Alexandra Scully and Hannah Katz

The Rosenhan Experiment
by Sara Holt, Lillian Yim, and Emily Tycz

Breaking Barriers: The Women of Yale
by Sophie Jaeger and Veda Swaminathan

A Tale of Two Countries: How Sputnik Sparked the Space Age
by Ria Saxena and Valli Pendyala

Carrie Welton
by Carolyn Bonomo and Kat Bonomo

Breaking Racial Barriers Through Science
by Nathan Holland, Douglas Muratori, and Ryan Sokol

Breaking Barriers: The Danbury Railroad Station
by Valentina Ramos, Amy Cordova, Megan Bhatti, and Hibba Qureshi

senior individual documentary

Leaping Over Barriers For Boys In Ballet
by Sasha Barnett

Strange Fruit: Breaking Barriers as the First Unmuted Cry Against Racism School: Staples High School 
by Scott Coleman 

Project Azorian: Diving into the unknown
by Ryan Stevenson

Gideon v Wainwright: Breaking the Judicial Barrier of the United States
by Kevin Shreenauth

The Mother of Nature: Rachel Carson and the Groundbreaking Publication of ‘Silent Spring’
by Andrew Maglio

The Second Wave Feminists: Redefining Femininity
by Veena Kodakirthi 

Harvey Milk: Breaking Barriers and Breaking out of the Closet
by Lucy O’Brien

Berry Gordy: Breaking Barriers Putting The Soul In American Music
by Leo Podgwaite

Shirley Chisholm’s Great Impact on Breaking Barriers in History
by Gabriella Xavier

Mahatma Gandhi – The Peaceful Protester
by Anishka Perera

Just Playing the Game: The Story of Women in Sports
by Kaitlyn Bell