Night in Newark

Middle school students in Newark grapple with Elie Wiesel’s harrowing Holocaust memoir.

The short stand-alone film Night in Newark takes place in the 7th grade classroom of the extraordinary teacher Paris Murray and her deeply thoughtful students at the North Star Academy in Newark. Filmed over the course of five days, we observe Paris teaching the students in her class as they discuss Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night.” North Star Academy has a yearlong curriculum on the theme of freedom and...