South by Southwest Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
	Double Take Documentary Film Festival, MTV/news/Docs Award
	San Antonio Cine Festival ? Special Jury Prize

“Speaking as a veteran migrant educator, the film accurately depicts the plight of highly mobile migrant teenagers who strive to finish high school in spite of the many challenges they face.”
Pamela G. Wrigley
National Migrant Education Hotline

“This experience is rarely represented and is a valuable insight into this important community.”
Adrianne McCurrach
GirlsFilmSchool

“Our ESL/migrant students were motivated and inspired to take action in their struggle to be successful and take advantage of their education.”
Pamela Patterson
ESL Migrant Summer Program, Lee County Schools

“Fantastic! There is not enough REAL youth being portrayed in the media. Fabulous antidote to all those stereo types.”
Penny Lane
Children’s Media Project

“The young people of this documentary will stay in your heart; you'll want to get up out of your seat when the film is over to go out and take action against the school policies that are set up to leave farm worker children on the outside track of the educational system…provides a moving account of real people's lives, viewing them with sensitivity and warmth. A definite recommendation for people of all ages.”
Jacinta Burrell
Health Educator

"Escuela succeeds in revealing the struggles of a population which until now has remained invisible. Frightening and compelling, the feature raises important questions about the needs of all children in the public education system."
Julie Novak, Workshop Facilitator
Video Diary for Girls

“These are border crossing girls in more than one sense - we see the experiences of daughters of migrant workers, traveling between homes, schools and work. The movie brings the viewer a new appreciation of the resiliency of these young travelers as they negotiate multiple worlds.”
Kathryn Herr, Editor
Youth and Society

"Director Hannah Weyer's haunting 'Escuela,'...lays out the problems of such a peripatetic life through the eyes of Liliana Luis. Rather than make sweeping statements, the hour long film simply and effectively presents Luis' experience, as her Mexican American family bounces between Texas and California."
Scott Sandell
Los Angeles Times

"Classroom shuffle. In 'Escuela,' documentary filmmaker Hannah Weyer evocatively tracks the complicated high school life of teenager Liliana Luis."
Mike Duffy
Detroit Free Press

"Escuela's calm, candle-like vigilance is remarkably illuminating and deeply affecting. More important, it opens viewers to the lives of people some of us may never come in contact with, and makes us care.”
Belinda Acosta
The Austin Chronicle

"In her 2000 documentary 'La Boda'...Hannah Weyer skillfully opened a window onto a family of Texas migrant workers...It did not overtly pull on heartstrings. In fact what was remarkable about the Luis family was the way in which it handled its plight without bitterness or self-pity....Weyer takes us back inside the Luis household, this time to focus on Elizabeth's younger sister and the impact the family's poverty is having on her education."
Mike McDaniel
Houston Chronicle

"In 'Escuela,'..filmmaker Hannah Weyer explores how migrant families are supported by a complex educational system. The system also fails students like Liliana...Although she is bright, curious and energetic, Liliana finds she always has to catch up in her studies. She also has to deal with a recurring 'new kid' experience while encountering cliques, first loves, and social acceptance."
Modesto Bee

“Provides a new perspective on the education system and how it works against migrating kids.”
Lisa Hughes
National Center for Farmworker Health

P.O.V.'s "Escuela" Website

Review of "Escuela" from the Austin Chronicle

National Association of Migrant Education

National Labor Relations Board

National Association of School Administrators

California Asssociation of Bilingual Education