My So-Called High School Rank

Synopsis

Directors: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg
101 min, US, 2022

In 2018, David Taylor Gomes and Kyle Holmes began writing a dystopian Broadway-style musical called Ranked, about the extremes that students go to achieve the best grades and reach the top of their class. Emmy-nominated filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Reversing Roe) follow the intimate stories of musical theater students at three disparate high schools across the country–Granite Bay, Sacramento; Cupertino in Silicon Valley, and Ripley, West Virginia–as they navigate the pressures of getting into college while staging a musical–until seismic events upend their dreams and expectations. Tender and triumphant, My So-Called High School Rank is a moving and surprisingly timely story of singing your heart out and coming-of-age in our most atypical times.