An award-winning local feature film by Wade Wofford.

Springfield, Massachusetts - a once-booming industrial city now falling apart at the seams...

Every morning before Aryana goes to school there at Woodrow Wilson Charter, she wakes her younger brother and sister, cobbles together breakfast, and puts them on the bus. All without waking their mom, who worked a double last night and hasn’t been doing well in the wake of her son’s murder. Aryana feels for her and she also doesn’t want to catch a black eye, so keeps her own grief for her brother locked up tight.

Wilson, a small but intimate school for grades 6-12, is tough – but it’s also a refuge for Aryana and her three closest friends, who’ve all got challenges of their own at home. So when the Principal announces that the school will be closing in January, the four of them reel as they try to make sense of what the closure will mean for their futures.

Dumped into the only neighboring school “with space” – one of the worst in the state – they find out that “space” means a seat on a leaking radiator. Where school was once a place of refuge, it is now an impossible learning environment, with archaic, state-run programs...and the onslaught of transferred Wilson students are unwanted by the overcrowded student body and the overworked faculty of their new school.

URBAN ED follows Aryana and her friends over the course of an academic year, exploring their education not just in their classrooms, but also in their homes, on their front stoops, and in modern, inner-city America.