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Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time. 

Directors: Elizabeth Barret & Wendy Ewald, Producer: Robert Salyer

Trailer editor: Shirley Thompson

Website: https://www.amdoc.org/watch/portraitsanddreams/