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Students at Horizon High School in El Paso, Texas, are gathered to hear their itinerary for the day: Active shooter at 12 pm. Hostage negotiation at 1:30 pm. Then a drug raid at 2:30 pm.
Located just 10 miles from the U.S. border with Mexico with a predominantly Mexican American student body, Horizon High School at once seems like the most likely and most surprising candidate for one of the country’s robust law-enforcement training programs, which seeks to prepare students and create a pipeline for careers in immigration control, the DEA, the prison system, and the police.
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Crow observantly follows three Mexican-American El Paso teenagers as they navigate the idea of a future that might clash with their values and priorities.
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“Active Shooter at 12! Hostage negotiation at 1:30! Drug raid at 2:30,” hollers an authoritative voice in a sun-baked concrete yard. The retired police officer who announces this schedule at the start of “At the Ready,” Maisie Crow’s sobering documentary about a community of kids growing up on the Mexican border, isn’t at a professional police school or military facility. And yet, he addresses neat rows of individuals dressed in military gear all teenagers, attending an unusual extracurricular training program at El Paso’s Horizon High School, seeking eventual employ
An occasionally inspiring, occasionally disconcerting look at teens processing the world.
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Director Maisie Crow follows a group of El Paso high school students in a law enforcement training program over the course of one life-changing year.
One of last year s big Sundance breakouts was the documentary
Boys State, in which high school students play-acted the mechanics of American democracy with results that were simultaneously inspiring and disheartening.
Hitting a somewhat similar sweet spot is Maisie Crow s
At the Ready, another documentary portrait of Texas teens dipping their toes into grown-up professional waters. If the image of kids experimenting with parliamentary procedure and political debate was disturbing, wait until you spent 100 minutes watching students learn about no-knock warrants and active shooter procedures.
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Filmmaker Maisie Crow was visiting a Texas high school to speak to students in a video production class about her career behind the camera when she saw something shocking. A group of teenagers were making their way through the hallways, SWAT team style, brandishing red plastic guns.
“I was taken aback,” says Crow. “It was at a time when people were talking about school shootings, so it was kind of stunning.”
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It turned out that the students were participating in a criminal justice club, which put them in the orbit of law enforcement officers in order to lay the groundwork for a future career as police officers or border patrol agents. That chance encounter inspired Crow’s new documentary, “At the Ready,” which premieres at this year’s Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 31. What makes the film so compelling is that it grapples with hot
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