Swim Team: A Movie About a Diverse Group of Teenagers

The swimming team recorded an incredible rise of Jersey Hammerheads, an adolescent swimming team with autistic children in New Jersey. From the first day of training until the National Special Olympics season, the swimming team captured an inclusive independent and vibrant movement.

Boys boys with autism spectrum will recruit other teenagers on the spectrum and form a highly competitive swimming team that trains them with high expectations and disappointing feelings. The swimming team recorded the incredible rise of three different young athletes and pursued comprehensiveness, autonomy, and the feeling of victory. Demonstrated at Asian Media Center (CAAM). Read more about the movie »

Links to detailed information including discussion guide, lesson plan etc are as follows. http://www.pbs.org/pov/swimteam/

PBS is a non-fiction series TV series POV widely appreciated in Japan and will be played at 10 PM on August 20, 2018

The swimming team follows Jersey Hammerheads, a truly unique competitive swimming team composed of teenagers with autistic spectrum. This movie tells the extraordinary journey of the team and its family in regional and state level practice and competition. Jersey hammer will cheer you up from your seat when they are engaged in daily struggle inside and out of the pool. Beyond silence, how do you meet Laurel? This short film show was held jointly with the Massachusetts Portuguese Speaker Alliance, Sunovion, the Boston Refugee Health and Human Rights Center, the National Psychiatric Association, and the British Consulate in Boston.

The swimming team recorded an incredible rise of Jersey Hammerheads, an adolescent swimming team with autistic children in New Jersey. From the first day of practice to the season after Special Olympics, the swimming team grabbed the inspiring pursuit of inclusive and independent sensational life. Boys boys with autism spectrum will recruit other teenagers on the spectrum and form a highly competitive swimming team that trains them with high expectations and disappointing feelings. The swimming team recorded the incredible rise of three different young athletes and pursued comprehensiveness, autonomy, and the feeling of victory. Demonstrated at Asian Media Center (CAAM). Read more about the movie »

Have you seen the movie "Pride" or "Jean Jean"? Obviously, we can notice that there is racial discrimination in both films, but what is the difference? In the movie 'Pride', a group of African-American teenagers participated in the swimming team's competition but was not accepted by other swimming teams. When they participate in the competition, another school will broadcast a racial insult during the meeting, and to some extent due to their skin tones at those African American teenagers they are bad news I found it. However, teenagers found ways to overcome these problems, but still they became swimming champions. In the movie 'Django' it is a slave man rescued by a Caucasian who will later save his love for his life. He is a man considered to be free, but even if he insists that his "master" is a free man, people still can not believe that black people are still at once, I can not believe how they are wearing. but why? Why is Caucasus still looking down on him? I call it a cross