Exclusive: Lee Hirsch, whose feature documentary Bully became a cause celebre when it received an R rating, has signed with ICM Partners. Bully premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and was released by The Weinstein Company. Hirsch’s feature debut came on Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony, which won the Sundance Audience Award in 2002. He also produced and directed Act Of Honor for the History Channel, and episodes of the Discovery Channel series Nextworld. Hirsch is also the founder, director, and producer of the Local Voices for Obama project, a series of ads featuring supporters of President Obama. His ads garnered him several 2009 Reed Awards, including Best Presidential Ad and Best Independent Expenditure.
- 6/20/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
If you haven't heard, the documentary Bully has been in the news quite a bit, battling an R-rating from the MPAA (for "some language"), as it should be PG-13, so that kids all over can see it and be educated by it as well. We have yet to feature the trailer, but Apple released the high def version of Lee Hirsch's Bully, and it comes at a perfect time as a petition with over 200,000 signatures is about to be hand delivered (26K pages) to the MPAA. The Wrap reports that Katy Butler, a 17-year-old girl from Michigan, is coming to La to present her petition on Wednesday. Let's hope it makes a difference, as this looks like an extraordinary film. Watch the official theatrical trailer for Lee Hirsch's The Bully Project, in high def from Apple: Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch ("NextWorld"), The Bully Project,...
- 3/6/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Bullying has long been an situation that kids fear but how do you stop it? The same way the tide has turned on other acts of hate like racism, sexism and homophobia. Make the issue so prevalent and derided in pop culture that it's easily identifiable and that anyone who witnesses it is a hero for pointing it out, anyone who takes participates is seen as scum. Now that bullying has a celebrity poster child in Demi Lovato, who has bravely revealed the emotional scars that fame couldn't heal, bullying is closer to eradication. What could wipe bullying out? Movies.
Now, The Weinstein Company acquired the documentary The Bully Project and will put it in theaters around the world. It follows five kids who are being bullied at school. Lee Hirsch (Discovery Channel's "NextWorld") directed and produced.
While people don't see documentaries as much as movies like Transformers, the...
Now, The Weinstein Company acquired the documentary The Bully Project and will put it in theaters around the world. It follows five kids who are being bullied at school. Lee Hirsch (Discovery Channel's "NextWorld") directed and produced.
While people don't see documentaries as much as movies like Transformers, the...
- 4/26/2011
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
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