Kids & Family
BULLY Documentary and Q&A with Lee Hirsch
The new documentary film BULLY, directed by Lee Hirsch, offering an intimate look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families.
The documentary Bully (2012) will start at 7pm and conclude with a Q&A from author and director Lee Hirsch.
BULLY is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary. At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a different facet of America’s bullying crisis. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, BULLY opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders. It documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy “kids will be kids” clichés, and it captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.
Parents play a vital role in supporting their kids, promoting upstander rather than bystander behavior, and teaching and modeling empathy in the home.
This movie is Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and is not suitable for all audiences. Parental discretion advised. To see if this movie is suitable for your child, please review this Parent’s Guide and a helpful resource.
Special thanks to Facebook for their generous support in bringing Lee Hirsch to the Menlo Park community. Additional thanks to Lee Hirsch for taking the time out of his busy schedule to show his documentary and answer questions.
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