If we examine the grassroots origin of film festivals, we could probably make an argument that they exist to invoke change, or at least bring about some awareness of a certain person, place or thing.
Davis Guggenheim's '
Waiting for Superman,' in keeping with his last Oscar-winning film '
An Inconvenient Truth,' brings forth the issue of the American education system in a moving, poignant way. At the Winter Garden Theatre screening of the film at the
Toronto Film Festival, it was impossible not to feel the momentum in the air.
'Waiting for Superman' lays out all the facts about the crumbling infrastructure of education in the United States. We follow the lives of several young children who each face different hurdles -- among them race, money and geographic location -- as they
