BULLY, the documentary, follows three victims of bullying, and two families of children (Tyler Long, 17, and

Ty Smalley, 11) who committed suicide after abuse at the hands of their peers. Lee Hirsch, director of BULLY said; "I made BULLY for kids to see the bullies as well as the bullied. We have to change hearts and minds in order to stop this epidemic, which has scarred countless lives and driven many children to suicide. To capture the stark reality of bullying, we had to capture the way kids act and speak in their everyday lives and the fact is that kids use profanity. It is heartbreaking that the MPAA, in adhering to a strict limit on certain words, would end up keeping this lm from those who need to see it most. No one could make this case more powerfully than Alex Libby, and I am so proud and honored that he is stepping forward to make a personal appeal."

SYNOPSIS BULLY: The U.S. Department of Educations Oce for Safe and Drug-Free Schools estimates that over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. In the new documentary BULLY , award-winning lmmaker Lee Hirsch brings human scale to this startling statistic, oering an intimate, uninching look at how bullying has touched ve kids and their families. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, BULLY opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders. It documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy kids will be kids clichs, and it captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.
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