When Small Victories Shed Light on Big Issues: Andrew Cohn on ‘Night School’

Andrew Cohn is not a social issue filmmaker. But at a moment when our country feels particularly divided, his movies happen to go right to the heart of the matter.

Hailing from Michigan, the Emmy-Award-winning documentarian is currently wrapping his fourth film in two years. The first of these, Medora (co-directed with Davy Rothbart), was—on its face—a movie about a high school basketball team in rural Indiana. But a deeper dig reveals the film to be an exploration of socio-economics and the unraveling of “small-town America.”

Cohn’s latest release is Night School, currently premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. Similar to Medora, the film has layers of meaning. It follows three adults in inner-city Indianapolis who are attending night school in hopes of getting their high school diplomas. Their touching personal stories are relatable to any contemporary audience, but they also point to larger issues about race, class, and opportunity in America.

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