Artfully co-directed by award-winning filmmakers Roger Weisberg and Vanessa Roth, AGING OUT chronicles the daunting obstacles that three foster children encounter as they "age out" of the system and are suddently on their own for the first time. Following them as they become parents, battle drug addiction, and even end up in jail, Weisberg and Roth show how three adolescents use the tenacity they developed "in the system" to retake control of their lves.

AGING OUT is more than a dark chronicle of young people who move from foster care into the welfare, mental health and criminimal justice systems. This emotionally complex film is also a portrait of young adults struggling to overcome the scars of childhood in order to realize their dreams of independence and fulfillment.

Since 1980, Roger has written, produced, and directed 25 PBS documentaries through his production company, Public Policy Productions. These films have won over a hundres awards including Peabody, Emmy, and duPont-Columbia awards. Weiberg received and Academy Award nomination in 2001 for Sound and Fury and in 2003 for Why Can't We Be a Family Again? His current production is Waging a Living, about the struggles of low-wage workiers to life their families out of poverty.

In 1998, Vanessa Roth received the duPont Award for her first documentary, Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children, which was broadcast nationally on PBS. Roth's second feature, Close to Home, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was broadcast on the Discovery Health Channel as a two-hour television event. She is currently in pre-production on a film about autism, in production on a follow-up doc Taken Home, and is editing her next film, The Third Monday.