Us Kids
A compassionate portrait eager to let its subjects speak for themselves.
Us Kids
From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reigns and fight for justice at a most critical time in our nation’s history. Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, Us Kids chronicles the March For Our Lives movement over the course of several years, following X Gonzalez, its co-founders, survivors and a group of teenage activists as they pull off the largest youth protest in American history and set out across the country and globally to build an inclusive and unprecedented youth movement that addresses racial justice, a growing public health crisis and shocking a political system into change.
Genre
Documentary,
Politics
Web Site
Runtime
98
Language
English
Director
Kim A Snyder
Cast
X Gonzalez
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
Moving quickly past the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school and the outcry that led many to hope things would be different this time, Kim A. Snyder's Us Kids focuses on the still-churning months following the media frenzy: a period in which newly minted student activists tried to cope ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 5.14.21 - 5.27.21
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