Copresented with The Bert and Sandra Wasserman Center for Family Life
Chasing Childhood explores a phenomenon affecting kids from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Free play and independence have all but disappeared, supplanted by relentless perfectionism and record high anxiety and depression. What’s lost goes well beyond our idyllic conceptions of childhood past. When kids don’t play unsupervised by adults, they don’t gain critical life skills: grit, independence, and resourcefulness. Though they may appear more accomplished on paper, by the time they get to college they are often falling apart, lacking the emotional tools to navigate young adulthood.
- Year2020
- Runtime80 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMargaret Munzer Loeb, Eden Wurmfeld
- ProducerLisa Eisenpresser, Eden Wurmfeld
- Executive ProducerMargaret Munzer Loeb
- CinematographerJustin Schein
- EditorMary Ann Toman
- MusicDavid Cieri
Copresented with The Bert and Sandra Wasserman Center for Family Life
Chasing Childhood explores a phenomenon affecting kids from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Free play and independence have all but disappeared, supplanted by relentless perfectionism and record high anxiety and depression. What’s lost goes well beyond our idyllic conceptions of childhood past. When kids don’t play unsupervised by adults, they don’t gain critical life skills: grit, independence, and resourcefulness. Though they may appear more accomplished on paper, by the time they get to college they are often falling apart, lacking the emotional tools to navigate young adulthood.
- Year2020
- Runtime80 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMargaret Munzer Loeb, Eden Wurmfeld
- ProducerLisa Eisenpresser, Eden Wurmfeld
- Executive ProducerMargaret Munzer Loeb
- CinematographerJustin Schein
- EditorMary Ann Toman
- MusicDavid Cieri