Bully

Sundance and Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, has crafted a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary which offers an intimate, no-holds barred look at how bullying has touched five American kids and their families.

Filmed over the course of one school year, BULLY opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids to reveal a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders.

Hirsch documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviours that defy “kids will be kids” clichés and captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, communities
and in society as a whole.

From families who have lost children to suicide, to a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter, incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus, BULLY offers an insightful glimpse into the often cruel world of the lives of bullied children.