Hatboro-Horsham Takes on 'Bully'
Hatboro-Horsham High School will host a screening of the documentary, 'Bully,' this week and a presentation on Feb. 28 with the film's director, Lee Hirsch.
For some, bullying can mean calling another student a name, for others, it might mean threats of violence if the person being bullied does not follow through with the aggressor's demands. For filmmaker Lee Hirsch, who put the lives - and, in some cases deaths - of five kids on the big screen in his documentary, "Bully," the subject matter is about so much more. A victim of bullying himself, Hirsch, in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, said he carried the "emotional landscape" of his film's topic. "I wanted to use my storytelling ability to give a voice to those kids and try to make a difference," Hirsch told the magazine in this month's issue. "As we started looking at making a film, my producer and I realized how much tragedy and …
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Shaira Leah Gomez
3:05 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
I am a teacher in one of the famous Middle School here CA, and one of our main problem why there are so many students skipping school because of these bullying stuff. Indeed, knowing what is the caused means, you can now identify the solution for it. And good thing also that I found a service and with this, I am sure that our students will not be afraid anymore in going to school because of … more ›