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    Let's Get Real

    Debra Chasnoff 2003 U.S.A Documentary color 35min English Betacam
    Following Michael Moore, who explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence in the film “Bowling for Columbine”, Debra Chasnoff once again accuses the school of its speech violence. In this film, the interviewed students dismantle their psychological defense gradually and talk about their sufferings in school. The cases include the Jewish students who are most of the time discriminated, the students who are defamed by their peers’ rumors, the rejection and conflict between different races etc. These students accuse their teachers of being indifferent and incompetent and mention their despair and self-doubt when they are oppressed. Some victims, alone and helpless, turn to be the ones who oppress others. Some try to release themselves by committing suicide, and still others recover from their wounds and turn to protect other victims. This film conveys a serious message: that is, unless the adults take this problem seriously and take some actions, these children cannot escape from various kinds of campus violence and the school turns into a hell.

    Director

    Debra Chasnoff

    Debra Chasnoff is an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has fueled progressive social-change movements in many fields. She is a senior producer at Women's Educational Media and co-creator of The Respect for All Project, a program that produces media and training resources to help prevent prejudice among young people. Chasnoff currently serves as the chair of New Day Films, a national progressive film- distribution co-operation. She serves on the national advisory board for Frameline, the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and Jewish Voices for Peace. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in San Francisco with her two school-age children.

    Debra Chasnoff

    1984 Choosing Children

    1991 Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment

    1996 It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    1998 Homes & Hands: Community Land Trusts in Action

    1999 Digital Divide (TV)

    2000 That's a Family

    2003 《這次是真的！》Let's Get Real! 

    Director/ Debra Chasnoff

    Producers/ Debra Chasnoff, Helen S. Cohen, Kate Stilley

    Editor/ Kate Stilley

    Director of Photography/ Fawn Yacker

    Print source: Women's Educational Media

    Tel: 415 641 4616 #304

    Fax: 415 641 4632

    Email: schen@respectforall.org

    http://www.womedia.org

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