From director Thomas Morgan, and available from Passion River films on March 21, a “fascinating” (Peter Rainer, Filmweek/NPR) documentary “that spotlights passionate educators and tenacious kids and their families” (Variety), TOMORROW’S HOPE.

Set on the South Side of Chicago; against a layered backdrop of systemic inequality, the documentary explores a community’s unique embrace of the possibilities of early education through the eyes of its first graduates who are now approaching young adulthood.

The film reunites three present-day high school seniors who had started out in the Educare preschool’s first-ever class, exploring the continuing effects of early childhood education as they navigate their way through difficult circumstances.

While today the Educare Early Education Center is going strong, in the documentary we learn about its utterly harrowing yet remarkable early stages as “The Beethoven Project” located within “Forgotonia” – a name the film’s Portia Kennel uses to describe what was at the time the largest housing project in the world.​

Exploring the contrast of promises kept against a pervasive backdrop of promises broken, “Tomorrow’s Hope” celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.

Produced by The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation, TOMORROW’S HOPE is “genuinely uplifting and inspiring in ways that even 'feel-good' fictional stories can’t often achieve” (Film Threat). See it on Digital platforms March 21 from Passion River.