With support from the Mac Arthur Foundation, Jean-Michel Dissard directed and produced I LEARN AMERICA. Prior to this documentary, Jean-Michel produced critically acclaimed films chronicling adolescent youth, including: “Raising Victor Vargas” by Peter Sollett a fiction about Latino youth in New York City – The film was selected at the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance — “Rikers High” a Showtime documentary about 3 incarcerated teenagers on NYC’s Rikers Island – The film won best New York Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival — “Ezra” a fiction about the child soldiers of Liberia – Jean-Michel was one of the writer and producer on “Down to the Bone” directed by academy award nominee Debra Granik.
