Forte Preparatory Academy presents
The Strength of a Promise
Teaser Clip, March 2026
The Strength of a Promise will have it’s premiere screening at a reception and fundraising event at The Museum of the Moving Image on April 22.
The Strength of a Promise: A Forte Prep Film Premiere and Fundraising Event
April 22, 2026
Full event with cocktail reception: 5:30-8:30pm
Screening Program: 6:30-7:30pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106
Forte Prep’s new Documentary is about celebrating our past and building our future.
In January 2026, Graham Browne, Founder and CEO of Forte Prep Academy, along with members of the Forte Prep Leadership Team, Faculty and Staff, and the Students and Families of Forte Prep made a short documentary film in association with Melty Cone Video Productions.
We went through our archives to share pictures and videos of the early years of Forte Prep Academy, back when we started in 2017 with a class of 89 fifth graders in the basement of A Child’s Place Daycare.
Remembering those stories, the students who founded Forte Prep with us, and the families who trusted us, was a wonderful gift!
We invited some of our founding faculty, students and families to share their memories of those first years. It is exciting to see how far they, and Forte Prep, have come in the last ten years!
Our school principals, Angela Mu and Damali Caine shared their stories, as did founding leadership members Graham Browne, Justin Smith and Viviana Benjumea.
We had a chance to reconnect with a few of our founding 5th grade students who are now thriving in college: Gabriela Alonso and Kaylee Cumbay.
In the last 10 years, we have all grown so much! In 2023 Forte Prep expanded our educational scope - from our middle school - grades 5-8 - to include a growing high school cohort in grades 9-12. We’ll be moving that cohort into our brand new high school building on Queens Boulevard this fall for the 2026-27 school year.
Today, our school is teaching nearly 700 students and we are on track to grow to serve 900 students by 2028.
We are honored to share our story with you, and grateful to have you as a member of our school community!
The Strength of a Promise will have it’s premiere screening at a reception and fundraising event at The Museum of the Moving Image on April 22.
We are excited to celebrate with our community - we hope you’ll join us!