In July of 2017 Central School became the 4th Row Films production headquarters for the making of award winning documentary by director Robert Greene, Bisbee '17. Central School became a cornerstone in the making of the film with multiple CSP members being key players in front and behind the camera. Laurie McKenna, CSP's executive director was filmed researching and executing the premiere of the installation of her cross-disciplinary art project, The Undesirables Project, that honored and remembered the people and events that took place during the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Other CSP members Ed Briggs along with Bridget and Camille Shanahan became the art department for the film, helping to design sets and props used in the film.

About the Bisbee '17 film

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past. Read more about the film here.