PRESSURE COOKER (USA, 2008, 99 mins)
Directed by: Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker
Producer: Jennifer Grausman
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann
Co-Producer: Myna Joseph
Editor: Mark Becker
Music: Prince Paul, Donald Newkirk

Pressure Cooker highlights two semesters in the culinary arts class of Wilma Stephenson, an irreverent high school teacher in Northeast Philadelphia whose no-holds-barred teaching style helps her students earn scholarships to college. Mrs. Stephenson spells it out on the first day of school by telling the newcomers that eleven members of last year's class earned over three-quarters of a million dollars in scholarships, a staggering amount. She offers her students her version of the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal. You work hard. You work the system. You get out of Northeast Philly.