Louder Than a Bomb
Directed by: Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 5, 2010
LOUDER THAN A BOMB tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam. 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. Louder Than a Bomb is about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance, and the communities they create along the way. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems, and what they get out of them, is universal: the defining work of finding one’s voice.
Filmmakers in person 7/30 at 9:45, 7/31 at 7:40, & 8/1 at 9:45!
NR, 99 MinutesUSA, 2010
Official Website: http://www.siskeljacobs.com/louder-than-a-bomb.php
