President Obama Meets With Students From WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”

President Barack Obama took some time to meet the five children who were featured in the documentary WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” in the Oval Office of the White House last Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Sitting on the couch are from left to right, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, Emily, and Anthony. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais).

Here’s the video of the President after he invited the students, their families and the filmmakers into the Oval Office.

Click here to read Tom Stockman’s review of the film.

WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) will be released under the Paramount Vantage banner and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It examines the crisis of public education in the United States through multiple interlocking stories. Designed to start a national conversation, the movie and corresponding “Take the Pledge” campaign aim to inspire everyone to create innovative and long-term solutions to help change the course of our kids’ lives for the better. The “Pledge Progress Meter” launched in May as a way for non-profits, foundations and corporations to match individual pledge levels with powerful action items aimed at helping both students and public schools.The film opens in New York and Los Angeles on September 24, nationwide in October.The film is produced by Lesley Chilcott, with Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann serving as executive producers. It is written by Davis Guggenheim & Billy Kimball.For more information about the movie, or to take the pledge go to http://www.WaitingForSuperman.com or text PLEDGE to 77177. To join the conversation visit us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/WaitingForSuperman What does your school need? Tell us by Tweeting #MySchoolNeeds at http://www.Twitter.com/WaitingSuperman