Subject: Invitation to a Special Screening of LOUDER THAN A BOMB with Director Jon Siskel
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:11:42 -0400 (EDT)

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You and a guest are invited to a special advance screening of

LOUDER THAN A BOMB

A film by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
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LOUDER THAN A BOMB opens in Washington DC at the West End Cinema on June 10th.

Runtime: 99 min. · Not Rated
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Wednesday, June 8th at 7:30pm

at the West End Cinema

2301 M Street NW (entrance on 23rd Street)

An RSVP is required: [email-masked]

A Q&A with director Jon Siskel will follow the screening

LOUDER THAN A BOMB is a film about passion, competition, teamwork, and trust. It's
about the joy of being young, and the pain of growing up. It's about speaking out,
making noise, and finding your voice. It also just happens to be about poetry.

Every year, more than six hundred teenagers from over sixty Chicago area schools
 gather for the world's largest youth poetry slam, a competition known as "Louder
Than a Bomb". Founded in 2001, Louder Than a Bomb is the only event of its kind 
in the country-a youth poetry slam built from the beginning around teams. Rather
 than emphasize individual poets and performances, the structure of Louder Than 
a Bomb demands that kids work collaboratively with their peers, presenting, critiquing,
and rewriting their pieces. To succeed, teams have to create an environment of mutual
trust and support. For many kids, being a part of such an environment-in an academic
context-is life-changing.

LOUDER THAN A BOMB chronicles the stereotype-confounding stories of four teams as
they prepare for and compete in the 2008 event. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking,
the film captures the tempestuous lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the
ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. This is not "high school poetry"
as we often think of it. This is language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented
teenagers obsessed with making words dance. How and why they do it-and the community
they create along theway-is the story at the heartof this inspiring film.

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