Rafael Theater Screens 'Bully' with Fairfax School Reps on Panel Discussion

BULLY

Now Playing Exclusive Marin Engagment at the Rafael Film Center.

Special Screening with Panel Discussion, Sunday, April 29, 4:15 pm

Recent articles and television shows have been abuzz with talk about this new documentary from Sundance and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, who brings human scale to the startling statistics surrounding the most common form of violence experienced by America's young people.

This character-driven documentary offers an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has affected five kids and their families, stories that represent different facets of America's bullying crisis.

Exploring a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders, the film opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids and documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy the clichés of "kids will be kids."

The film also captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.

Camera/Director: Lee Hirsch. (US 2012) 98 min.


CFI Education presents
Special Screening with Panel Discussion
Sunday, April 29, 4:15 pm

For Teachers:
Consider using this special screening/discussion of BULLY as an extra credit assignment for your students. Click here to download a free copy of Guide to the Film BULLY: Fostering Empathy and Action in Schools which has been designed to help adult and student audiences confront the stories in this film and explore the meaning for their schools and their wider communities.

Panelists:

George Pegelow
Chair, Marin County Chapter
ACLU of Northern California

Harriet MacLean
Principal, Davidson Middle School
San Rafael

Michele Pelton
Counselor, White Hill Middle School
Fairfax

Noah Block
7th Grade student
White Hill Middle School
Fairfax

Joelle Apprenrodt
Marin County Youth Commissioner