An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
SCHOOL/EDUCATION
BULLY – PG13
This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we’ve all been affected by bullying, whether we’ve been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project opens on the first day of school. For the more than 5 million kids who’ll be bullied this year in the United States, it’s a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown. For a lot of kids, the only thing that’s certain is that this year..
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK – PG13
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
BILAL’S STAND
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family’s long-owned taxi stand. “The Stand,” as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to carry the torch. He secretly submits a college application and takes up the art of ice carving in order to win a scholarship. However, he is forced to decide whether he will continue working at the Stand – the only life he’s ever known – or take a chance at social mobility. Written by Anonymous
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. Written by Sundance Film Festival
I AM A PROMISE
This Academy Award-winning feature length documentary film chronicles a year in the life of M. Hall Stanton, a struggling inner-city elementary school where 90% of the students live below the poverty line and come from single parent homes. The film is a remarkable symbol of all American inner-city schools and the challenges teachers face to educate these most vulnerable children.
FRONT OF THE CLASS
“Front of the Class” is based on the true story of Brad Cohen — played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk — who, “after being challenged by Tourette’s syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher.