page_title: Best Kept Secret (film)
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Best Kept Secret (film) / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Simon Kilmurry, Samantha Buck, Danielle DiGiacomo and Janet Mino at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards for "POV:Best Kept Secret."
context_page_description: Best Kept Secret is a 2013 documentary film that was directed by Samantha Buck and produced by Danielle DiGiacomo. The film aired as part of POV on PBS and focuses on a special education teacher who must find her students a place in the real world as they prepare to leave the public school system.
context_section_description: Critical reception for Best Kept Secret has been overwhelmingly positive and the movie holds a rating of 100 on both Rotten Tomatoes (based on 11 reviews) and Metacritic (based on 4 reviews). It was a New York Times Critics Pick. Variety praised the documentary for focusing on minority groups with disabilities such as autism as opposed to "white, middle-class children" and the contrast in the options available to the minority groups. The Los Angeles Times commented that the movie "unfolds with limited on-screen explanatory text and no expert talking heads, inserting the viewer into the overwhelming experience of teaching, parenting, even being an underprivileged young adult with autism." Best Kept Secret was one of five nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards' Audience Award and the winner of a 2013 Peabody Award.
caption: Simon Kilmurry, Samantha Buck, Danielle DiGiacomo and Janet Mino at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards for POV: Best Kept Secret.
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