The documentary, which premiered at Sundance last year, chronicles the lives of five students during the 2016-17 school year as they embark on a grueling college admissions process.
From left, students Celine Lu, Jimmy Qiu and Alvan Cai review physics text in a scene from "Try Harder!"In a documentary on San Francisco’s rigorous Lowell High School, an Asian American student chastises his mother for saying that his father never finished high school.
“These are the kids who can’t afford to go to private school. Families bank on that,” Lum told NBC Asian America. “It is a way for someone who didn’t have access to have a way up in society.” “For the most part, and historically speaking, it’s the kids who are coming from Chinatown, taking an hour bus ride to get there,” Lum said. “Maybe they’re living in Chinatown SRO [single-room occupancy] housing.”
Lum said these family values spawn a unique culture among students, who are bound by a shared understanding that their commitment alone could potentially lift them, and their families, up into better circumstances.
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