Super-30

This is a story from India about ambition, about beating the odds, and about the massive changes that are convulsing Indian society. Bihar is India's poorest state. Fewer than half its 90 million inhabitants can sign their own name. Yet each year 30 impoverished children are chosen for an intensive tutoring programme that prepares them to compete for the world's toughest university, the Indian Institutes of Technology. The film explores the vision of two remarkable men and their school, the Ramanujan Academy, in Patna. It follows the year-long cycle of the 2007 'Super-30' as they begin a journey away from the grinding poverty of Indian village life to the cutting edge of global science, technology and business.

Super 30 won the 2008 Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the IFFLA in America