Moving from the Philippines to America was an experience for me. I was about nine years old, knew little about the world beyond my culture at the time and the transition from a third world country to a first world was brand new. I remembered receiving benefits that were nonexistent...

“Falling in love [with a project] helps you tell your story,” Guggenheim explains about his latest film, “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” a documentary about the deterioration of quality education in America’s public school system.