DIRECTED BY CAROLINE SUH

"CHARMING" – New York Magazine

“Superb! The marvel of FRONTRUNNERS comes from watching potential movers-and-shakers who don’t quite know themselves yet. Suh captures teen smartness without being smug; she understands these brainiacs are still endearingly geeky. The pop soundtrack authenticates the emotional milieu. A perfect antidote to the current overly staged presidential election spectacle.”
– Armond White, New York Press

"Thoroughly enjoyable!" – Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

frontWHAT DO TIM ROBBINS, THELONIOUS MONK, DREW NIEPORENT, Jerry Nadler, and Lucy Liu all have in common? They all graduated from Stuyvesant, the jewel in the crown of NYC’s high schools for gifted students. Not surprisingly, some of the nation’s smartest, most media-savvy teenagers run an election for class president with primaries, televised debates, newspaper endorsements and considerable schmoozing in the halls. Stuyvesant accepts 3% of the 25,000 kids who apply, and when just one is going to be class president, you can bet that tensions run high.

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  • Q & A with NYC Councilwoman/Stuyvesant alum JESSICA LAPIN and film subject GEORGE ZISIADIS (Recorded October 17, 2008)
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    (Recorded October 15, 2008)
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USA • 2007 • 80 MINS. • OSCILLOSCOPE PICTURES