Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau

‘Pipeline’ looks at a troubled young man, and who or what failed him.



The title Pipeline refers to two different kinds of institutionalized segregation. In the first, “gifted and talented” students are culled from the public-school crowd and given accelerated classroom experiences. The second refers to the schools-to-prison syndrome that plagues poor, mostly inner-city, and mostly African-American families. That appears to have been the fate in store for Omari (Brian Neal), whose recently divorced parents (Sasha Allen and Nathan Alford-Tate) have separated him from public schools and shipped him off to prep school in the hope of improving his chances of avoiding one kind of pipeline and benefitting from another. Will he overcome these difficulties? Find out when you stream Pipeline!