Middle schoolers dropping harder truths than most Oscar speeches.
Examines issues that lead to taunting and bullying, including racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and others. Part of The Respect For All Project.
Direction
Chasnoff lets kids speak without adult-filtered polish.
Writing
Student testimonials that outwrite most scripted dramas.
Director
Debra Chasnoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of The Respect For All Project, this was designed for actual school curriculum deployment during the post-Columbine, pre-social-media bullying awareness wave.
Director Debra Chasnoff was the first openly lesbian Oscar winner (for 1991's Deadly Deception), bringing lived experience to LGBTQ youth stories here.
US
