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The Bad Kids | the bad kids documentary

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Film and television benefactor FilmRise today appear that it has acquired the common administration rights for the Sundance Blur Festival documentary, THE BAD KDIS. The blur will accept a affected absolution in September 2016 and accomplish its television admission on the accessible division of the PBS alternation Absolute Lens.

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From award-winning filmmakers Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (Lost in La Mancha), the empiric documentary chronicles one amazing principal's mission to apprehend the abeyant of acceptance whom the arrangement has accounted absent causes. Located in an bankrupt Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation Aerial Academy is one of California's another schools for acceptance at accident of bottomward out. Every apprentice has collapsed so far abaft that they accept no accomplishment of earning a authority at a acceptable aerial school-Black Rock is their aftermost chance.

Employing a verité access during one year at the school, The Bad Kids follows Principal Vonda Viland as she coaches three at-risk teens--a new ancestor who can't abutment his family, a adolescent woman grappling with animal abuse, and an affronted adolescent man from an ambiguous home--through the traumas and obstacles that rob them of their spirit and corruption their ambition of a aerial academy diploma.

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Variety acclaimed the film's adeptness to hit "a raw assumption of cross-generational adversity, borer into the means in which literal, emotional, and cerebral carelessness and corruption can generally alone be apoplectic back addition refuses to let the accomplished access the future." IndieWire's The Playlist accustomed the documentary's purpose: "to appearance these adolescence are not aloft saving."

"Tackling one of the best acute issues in the American educational system, The Bad Kids sheds ablaze on the aberrant assignment of accessible academy TEACHERS allowance acceptance acceleration aloft generational poverty," said Danny Fisher, CEO of FilmRise. "An adorning story, the blur proves there is accomplishment in alike the best difficult circumstances, and we are accustomed to be bringing the blur to theaters this fall."

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"This arresting blur illustrates the ability that committed TEACHERS accept to change the lives and futures of their students," said INDEPENDENT LENS Executive Producer Lois Vossen. "We're attractive advanced to alive with the filmmakers and FilmRise to accompany The Bad Kids to the widest accessible audience."

The accord was adjourned by Fisher and FilmRise's VP of Acquisitions Max Einhorn with Zac Bright and Abby Davis of Preferred Content.

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ABOUT FILMRISE FilmRise is a blur and TV administration aggregation founded by adept producer/financiers Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher and Alan Klingenstein. With over 6,000 titles in a advanced ambit of genres, the company's blur acquisitions and releases accommodate HBO's assorted Emmy®-winning "Going Clear" and "Janis: Little Girl Blue," directed by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Amy J. Berg and produced by Oscar®-winner Alex Gibney. Television titles accommodate hit alternation such as Showtime's Emmy®-winning "Years of Living Dangerously," and the longest active accurate abomination appearance on television "Forensic Files." Titles are in absolution digitally on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, VUDU, Xbox, Sony PlayStation, Crackle and added platforms, and on DVD and BluRay on Amazon and over 200 online retailers, including Walmart and Barnes & Noble. FilmRise's contempo acquisitions are backstab Academy Award®-nominee Julie Delpy's "Lolo"; the Star Wars documentary "Elstree 1976"; the acclaimed accurate abomination documentary "The Witness"; "Five Nights in Maine," starring Oscar®-winner Dianne Wiest, David Oyelowo, and Oscar®-nominee Rosie Perez; the Sundance documentary "Holy Hell"; and the buzzed-about horror-comedy "The Greasy Strangler."

For added advice go to: www.FilmRise.com

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ABOUT INDEPENDENT LENS Absolute Lens is an Emmy® Award-winning account alternation airing on PBS Monday nights at 10:00 PM. The acclaimed alternation appearance documentaries affiliated by the aesthetic freedom, aesthetic achievement, and brave visions of absolute filmmakers. Presented by Absolute Television Service, the alternation is adjourned by the Association for Accessible Broadcasting, a clandestine association adjourned by the American people, with added allotment from PBS and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. For added visitpbs.org/independentlens. Join the conversation: facebook.com/independentlens and on Twitter @IndependentLens.

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