Frosh

98 minutes, 1993 , United States

Producer/Directors: Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller

Educational Streaming

Colleges, Universities, Government Agencies, Hospitals and Corporations

Streaming licenses for institutional use—ideal for education, training, and research.

1-Year Single Campus Academic Streaming $200.00

One year of embeddable streaming access for a single institution. Includes captioning support, and easy LMS integration. Perfect for courses, workshops, and staff development.

3-Year Single Campus Academic Streaming $350.00

Three years of embeddable streaming access for a single institution. Includes captioning support, and easy LMS integration. Ideal for recurring curriculum use and long-term academic programming.

Life-of-the-File-Format Digital Site License (DSL) $650.00

Includes downloadable .mp4 video and .srt caption files. Permits secure, password-protected streaming via the licensing institution’s distance learning or internal streaming platform for students, faculty, staff, and on-campus researchers. Also includes 5 years of embeddable streaming. Perfect for long-term archiving and flexible institutional access.

Add a DVD to Any License (when available) $50.00

Available to U.S. licensees only. Shipping via USPS Priority Mail and California sales tax (for California customers) will be calculated at checkout.

Community Screening

Short-term use for small groups, organizations, or high school classes (under 100 participants-where no admission is charged).

Flexible options for educators, facilitators, and non-commercial screenings.

7-Day On-Demand Group Rental $75.00

Streamed via a secure screening page to a single purchaser. For use in a real-time, synchronous group setting, either in person or virtual. Ideal a single discussion, classroom session, or community gathering.

30-Day On-Demand Group Rental $100.00

Streamed via Newsreel.org for use by a single group of up to 100 participants for 30 days. A moderator or instructor will receive a secure URL and password to share with students. Ideal for high school and non-college classes.

Single Course Rental (15 weeks) $150.00

Streamed via Newsreel.org for use by a single course or group of up to 100 participants over a 15-week academic term. A moderator or instructor will receive a secure URL and password to share with students. Ideal for high school and non-college classes.

Add a DVD to Any License (when available) $50.00

Available to U.S. licensees only. Shipping via USPS Priority Mail and California sales tax (for California customers) will be calculated at checkout.

Home Viewing

48-hour personal streaming rental for in-home use only.

For individuals without institutional access.

Home Viewing Rental $20.00

Enjoy a 48-hour streaming rental, beginning at checkout, available through Newsreel.org for personal, at-home use only.

Home viewing is offered as a courtesy for individuals without institutional access. We encourage you to check with your local public library, college campus, or community organization to see if they already hold a viewing license.

By selecting this option, you agree not to show the film in any public, group, or classroom setting.

Add a DVD to Any License (when available) $50.00

Available to U.S. licensees only. Shipping via USPS Priority Mail and California sales tax (for California customers) will be calculated at checkout.

Freshman year. What could be more challenging, disorienting, exhilarating, depressing?

Two award-winning filmmakers- one male, one female- returned to college with their cameras. They spent a year living in a co-ed, multicultural, freshman residence hall at Stanford University. They shot at 2:00 AM bull sessions, in co-ed bathrooms, classrooms and deans offices, and on trips home during winter break. Their unprecedented cinema verite documentary captures the freshman world of scary freedoms and new lifestyles in all its thrilling anxiety.

The students discover they face much more than the traditional academic pressures. Campus life is wracked with unexpected social conflicts:

Freedom of speech vs. anti-harassment codes

Multicultural education vs. western culture

Alcohol, drugs, and dating

Grade anxiety, cultural alienation, and the lure of dropping out

Maintaining ethnic and gay identity on a white, heterosexual campus

Frosh traces a dramatic journey of social experimentation and intellectual curiosity, cultural clashes and spiritual crisis, academic pressure and adjustment problems, but ultimately, individual self-discovery within a diverse community. Nothing less than a contemporary American coming of age story, Frosh is destined to become a classic of student life.

Frosh's frank and open approach to gender, racial, political, and academic issues common to all campuses will help prepare any student for the challenges of college life. Ideal for use in: Freshman year, residential life, counseling, and other student activities programs, and for training professional and para-professional staff.

A fascinating portrayal of the freshman year experience_x0085_ An intimate look at real students living and working together_x0085_ Beautifully dramatizes the importance of students and peers and of residential life.
- Alexander W. Astin, UCLA, author of What Matters in College? Four Critical Years Revisited

"Presents college life in a way that parents, students and staff can understand. Its realism makes it a unique resource for education, training and staff development_x0085_ Campus life as it really is."
- W. Garry Johnson
Association of College and University Housing Officers

"Frosh vividly, candidly and sympathetically documents the passage from adolescence to young adulthood. These students touch you as they struggle to develop intellectual and social competance, manage their sexual and aggressive emotions, and test and sometimes modify the values of their heritages."
- Robert Rogers
Ohio State University

"Captures virtually all the essential themes of the residential freshman year experience...Highly recommended."
- John N. Gardner, Director, National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience

"Engaging and well-observed. Frosh fascinates in its reflection of the shifting 1990s cultural landscape."
- Variety

Ways to Watch

Educational Streaming

Colleges, Universities, Government Agencies, Hospitals and Corporations.

Community Screening

Short-term use for small groups, organizations, or high school classes (under 100 participants, where no admission is charged).

Home Viewing

48-hour, personal rental for in-home use only, restrictions apply