Banned Together TRAILER A documentary about fighting book bans!

Описание: A diverse cast of visionary teenagers and intriguing characters, stirring public protests, private threats, criminal charges, and profanity-laced school board meetings: this is the world of the explosive new feature documentary, Banned Together. The film pulls back the curtain on two of the most controversial issues in America today: book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools.
Banned Together follows three young women in Beaufort, SC during their senior year of high school as they fight hostile community members and school board officials to reinstate 97 books that were suddenly banned from their school libraries. We witness their evolution from local to national activists as they advocate at school board meetings, sit down with national politicians, bestselling and banned authors, constitutional scholars, PEN America, and ultimately, speak on stage at the Right To Read Rally during the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago, as the film's scope widens to include the larger national picture.
The film is produced by Atomic Focus Entertainment, a full-service, female-owned production company creating exceptional original scripted and unscripted content for film, TV, livestream, and podcasts www.atomic-focus.com in association with Kanopy, the leading video streaming service providing films that matter through public libraries and colleges worldwide www.kanopy.com. Atomic Focus producers Jennifer Wiggin and Allyson Rice and director/producers Kate Way and Tom Wiggin were inspired by the activism of these young students and drawn to the breadth of this fast-moving national story. The producing team added award-winning documentary editor Cha Quallis as well as rock and roll phenomenon Kim Bullard to score the film.
To find out more about the film, read bios of the filmmaking team, check out screening dates across the U.S., and access links to resources about how to fight book bans in your local community, visit www.BannedTogetherDoc.com

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