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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Free Regional Premier of "Bully" - March 26 - Redwood Cinema - Brookings

From Sundance Award-winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, comes a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary following five kids and families over the course of a school year. Offering insight into different facets of America’s bullying crisis, the stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter, who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. With an intimate and often shocking glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals' offices, this is a powerful and inspiring film that every educator, parent and teenager should see.

We will be showing both versions of the movie - the powerful PG-13 version at 10:15 am (it's rated PG in Canada) and the U.S. PG version at 11:10 am. The basic difference is that a PG version in the US can only have one swear word. Anything more than that and it moves to PG-13. The words are spewed by school childen in hate-filled diatribes. Keep in mind; this is a documentary, so the footage shows real kids using words in a negative way towards other kids. I would say that the kids at all three public schools have probably heard worse on the schoolyard. Isn't it better that they see a film that might open their eyes to a problem, might help them communicate with you about a problem, might help start a discussion about a problem that seems to be pretty widespread? A review of the PG-13 version is available by Kids-In-Mind.com is at http://bit.ly/YcTW5K

Everyone concerned for the safety of our children while in the care of our schools, please join us. Let's not have any of our children be too afraid to get an education in Curry County.