(93 min) Education; Child Development; Adolescent Psychology

Talented students entering a special program at university at 14 reflect on the impact on their lives, their current careers and maturation.

This documentary follows a group of talented students over a 10 year period. The film explores the lives of five young people identified as ‘gifted’ when they were children. The ‘superkids’ who are now young twenty-somethings are able to actively reflect on their experiences and express a variety of opinions on the benefits and disadvantages of the alternative educational pathways they followed.

Throughout the documentary, the stories of the ‘superkids' are told against a backdrop of international experts who offer a sharp critique of the complex issues of identification, labeling, segregation and acceleration that each of these young adults has been forced to contend with. In the end, these critics suggest a new perspective on the challenge of educating our brightest children, one with profound implications for the education of all children everywhere.