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The Bully Project: More Than Just A Film

American director Lee Hirsch and producer Cynthia Lowen, whose timely and riveting — and heart breaking — documentary The Bully Project follows the lives of five bullied children and their families, hopes the film will not only be a teaching tool at schools across North America, but that it starts a whole anti-bullying movement, also called The Bully Project. Weinstein Company has now picked up the film for distribution and it is expected to hit theatres later this year.

Hirsch and Lowen sat down with Samaritanmag’s Jordan Adler at Toronto’s Victoria College, the media centre for the recent Hot Docs Canadian international documentary festival, where The Bully Project screened. Hirsh, it turns out, was bullied as a kid, and Lowen, a bystander.

 

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Adam Lambert Vocal About DonorsChoose.org

American singer Adam Lambert is using his newfound spotlight more than just For Your Entertainment, as the title of his debut album suggests. The American Idol runner-up is putting his voice behind DonorsChoose.org, an online charity connecting you to classrooms in need.

“It’s something I started promoting over the summer and it’s basically to fund public school programs,” Lambert tells Samaritanmag. “I chose to emphasize the arts.

“The teachers go onto this site and describe what their project is that they need funding for. For example, a music teacher will go on and say, ‘I need a set of 35 headphones for my music production class for these kids.’ So you’ll know what you’re donating for, which is kind of satisfying for someone who is making a donation, and it’s very convenient as well.  And they’ll post little articles about how it went.”

The site is laid out really simply with details about the school, the project cost, and includes a goal bar showing how much money is needed and how much has been donated to date. One teacher needs two ELMO visual presenters for the classroom; another bus transportation for a 4-day Chicago culture trip for 80 students and four teachers scheduled for June.

* Samaritanmag.com is an online magazine covering the good deeds of individuals, charities and businesses.

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