Go behind the scenes of the award-winning documentary, "Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary," as KARE 11's Julie Nelson talks to filmmakers Ben Garvin and Lindsey Seavert, and principal Mauri Friestleben. Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. Subscribe to our channel for compelling and dramatic storytelling, award winning investigations, breaking news and information you can use. » Subscribe to KARE 11 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... » Watch more KARE 11 video: https://www.youtube.com/user/KARE11/v... » Visit KARE11.com: http://www.kare11.com/ » Download our app! https://www.kare11.com/appredirect/ » Find KARE 11 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/ » Follow KARE 11 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kare11 » Follow KARE 11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kare11/

The journey from a television news series to a documentary film took nearly two years. KARE 11 reporter Lindsey Seavert and KARE 11 photojournalist Ben Garvin talk about their collaboration on the Lucy Laney storytelling project. » Subscribe to KARE 11: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kare11 » Watch more KARE 11 video: https://www.youtube.com/user/KARE11/videos Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. Subscribe to our channel for compelling and dramatic storytelling, award winning investigations, breaking news and information you can use. Connect with KARE 11 Online! Visit KARE11.com: http://www.kare11.com/ Find KARE 11 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/ Follow KARE 11 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kare11 Follow KARE 11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kare11/

One year. One principal. One heartbreaking setback as her struggling elementary school fights to get off "the list." KARE 11’s feature-length documentary Love Them First: Lessons From Lucy Laney Elementary makes its world premiere at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival on 4/13. Three showings are sold out but you can still get tickets to 4/18: http://bit.ly/2TWzQhA More on the film, directed by Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin: https://www.lovethemfirst.com/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/lovethemfirst Instagram:  @lovethemfirstfilm Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/LoveThemFirstFilm/ #LoveThemFirst --- » Subscribe to KARE 11: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kare11 » Watch more KARE 11 video: https://www.youtube.com/user/KARE11/videos Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. Subscribe to our channel for compelling and dramatic storytelling, award winning investigations, breaking news and information you can use. Connect with KARE 11 Online! Visit KARE11.com: http://www.kare11.com/ Find KARE 11 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/ Follow KARE 11 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kare11 Follow KARE 11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kare11/

Principal Mauri Melander Friestleben shares how she overcame a painful childhood just blocks from Lucy Laney Elementary.

Lucy Laney staff members have reduced school suspensions by more than 90 percent in the past five years and share the strategies that shifted school behavior.

Lucy Laney staff members visit the homes of all 500 students before the school year begins.

Community members hold a welcome back rally on the first day of school, lining sidewalks to greet each child who comes through the doors.

Lucy Laney students share what they want grown-ups to know about their school

On school picture day, Lucy Laney students display their finest fashions, style and smiles in their first year without school uniforms.

Students share gratitude as Thanksgiving approaches.

Educators at Lucy Laney Elementary honor the home dialect of students at a school where 90 percent of kids are African American. African American Vernacular English, or AAVE, refers to the distinctive dialect historically spoken by African Americans, a style formerly known as Ebonics. " Subscribe to KARE 11: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kare11 " Watch more KARE 11 video: https://www.youtube.com/user/KARE11/videos Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. Subscribe to our channel for compelling and dramatic storytelling, award winning investigations, breaking news and information you can use. Connect with KARE 11 Online! Visit KARE11.com: http://www.kare11.com/ Find KARE 11 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/ Follow KARE 11 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kare11 Follow KARE 11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kare11/

Educators share why they choose to teach at Lucy Laney Elementary.

School culture takes center court in the highly anticipated annual “Student Staff Basketball Game.”

Recent gun violence brings Lucy Laney parents and students before Minneapolis City Hall, calling on local lawmakers to intervene.

Lucy Laney Elementary students petition Hennepin County to extend a road construction project to their school, worried about the crime outside their doors.

Teachers plan an elaborate party to share the gift of giving with students in the holiday season.

Gunfire whizzed dangerously close to students on the playground, putting the school in a “code yellow” lockdown

James Samuel “Cornbread” Harris, Sr. is a 92-year-old Minneapolis jazz and blues legend who lives near Lucy Laney Elementary. He visits the school to play on a newly donated piano and sing his songs with the children. https://kare11.tv/2HyiYcg

Lucy Laney Elementary builds strong relationships with students and their families through special events like the Bring-Your-Adult-to-Prom dance.

An emotional last day as the school year comes to an end, with kindergarten and fifth grade graduations.

Principal Mauri Friestleben has declined dozens of requests to speak across Minnesota and the country, but she said ‘yes’ to this one — a chance to meet men behind bars at the Stillwater Correctional Facility. They watched Love Them First before she arrived. “I had fire in my throat and they listened. And they spoke and I listened," Mauri wrote after. "I’m not the same as I was when I walked in there.” https://www.kare11.com/article/news//89-40374fc0-c9ac-4272-b4d4-9d52938be7b6 Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. Subscribe to our channel for compelling and dramatic storytelling, award winning investigations, breaking news and information you can use. » Subscribe to KARE 11 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... » Watch more KARE 11 video: https://www.youtube.com/user/KARE11/v... » Visit KARE11.com: http://www.kare11.com/ » Download our app! https://www.kare11.com/appredirect/ » Find KARE 11 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/ » Follow KARE 11 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kare11 » Follow KARE 11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kare11/