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OutreachArts / 'Street Where You Live' Productions' groundbreaking, Emmy Nominated, Telly Award-Winning teen-family awareness series, MAPLE AVE currently airs on select PBS affiliates nationwide, regularly offering its audiences 'television that matters'. Created by award-winning writer/filmmaker, Richard T. Wilson (pictured above left) the MAPLE AVE films series reaches millions of viewers each year, both on television and in the classroom.

In an era when everything from TV commercials to roadside billboards are asking parents 'to be parents', the need for a program like MAPLE AVE, that reaches out to at-risk teens and their families, is sadly all too obvious. Capturing viewers' imaginations with its unique focus on the inner life of teens and their families, MAPLE AVE addresses this growing problem head on by providing audiences with instantly recognizable characters and situations that are clearly as entertaining as they are thoughtful and educational. Regularly informed by the teens it's designed to reach, MAPLE AVE credibly shares its audience's concerns while simultaneously providing an entertaining and non-threatening forum for parents and their children to discuss issues of critical importance to them in their everyday lives.

The series began airing in late 2003 and has since received numerous awards and honors, among them two Mid-Atlantic Emmy Nominations in the 'Outstanding Youth Programming' category. During this time, PBS Programmers have heaped acclaim upon the series' two pilot episodes, 'Jenny's Reasons' and 'Ghosts in the Hall', calling them, 'two of the finest shows for young people I've ever seen' and 'an important drama series that touches on what is happening with the youth of today'.

In the meantime, if you'd like more information on purchasing DVD copies of any of our MAPLE AVE films for your school or organization, please contact us @ mapleave@streetwhereyoulive.com.