The Making of "FRONTLINE: The Lost Children of Rockdale County"
In 2000, the 59th Annual Peabody Awards recognized outstanding local and national programming dealing with health and medical issues by presenting the Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming.
The winner was FRONTLINE's "The Lost Children of Rockdale County," a passionate and chilling account of the outbreak of syphilis among teenagers in the suburbs of Atlanta. Producers Rachel Dretzin Goodman and Barak Goodman, under the leadership of senior executive producer David Fanning and executive producer Michael Sullivan, spent more than five months living and working in Conyers, Georgia-interviewing teenagers there and gaining a disturbing understanding of their lives.
This video is the Peabody Awards documentary "The Making of 'FRONTLINE: The Lost Children of Rockdale County.'"
This documentary explores the creation of this documentary and the challenges that the producers faced in untangling the complicated issues of middle school sex education, sexually transmitted diseases and the larger cultural implications. It also examines the social pressures that lead to binge drinking, drug abuse, unsafe and dangerous sexual activity and violence among teenagers.
We trust that you will find "The Making of 'FRONTLINE: The Lost Children of Rockdale County'" interesting and instructive. Our documentary includes interviews with producer/director Rachel Dretzin Goodman, Dr. Helene D. Gayle director of the National Center for HIV, STD & TB Prevention, Dr. Clare Sterk, chair of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Dr. Steven A. Schroeder, President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
To read the full winner's citation for "FRONTLINE: The Lost Children of Rockdale County," click here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/frontline-the-lost-children-of-rockdale-county
