This year, over 5 million American kids will be
bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home,
through their cell phones and on the streets of
their towns, making it the most common form of
violence young people in this country experience.
The Bully Project is the first feature documentary
film to show how we've all been affected by
bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators
or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as
adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project
opens on the first day of school. For the more
than 5 million kids who'll be bullied this year in
the United States, it's a day filled with more
anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun
rises and school busses across the country
overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the
rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a
ride into the unknown. For a lot of kids, the only
thing that's certain is that this year...