"The War on Kids" Director Attends Film Screening at Nazareth, Feb. 2

• by Nazareth College

ROCHESTER, NY (01/27/2010)(readMedia)-- Nazareth College's School of Education is proud to present a special screening of the award-winning documentary, "The War on Kids," on Tuesday, February 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the Shults Center Forum. Director Cevin Soling will introduce his film and host a question and answer session after the screening. This event is free and open to the public. Nazareth College is located at 4245 East Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 14618. For more information, contact Meredith Kahl at (585) 389-2611 or mkahl8@naz.edu. Soling was recently a guest on Comedy Central's Colbert Report. The clip can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/ybou6wa

2009 Best Educational Documentary Winner at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, The War on Kids is a 95-minute documentary illustrating how the American public school system has become more authoritarian than educational. The film explains how many schools are failing in their mission to educate effectively and how they are eroding the country's democratic foundation. Also, the film explores the similarities between schools and prisons and criticizes that prisoners have more human rights than students. The documentary includes interviews with school children, high school teachers and administrators, prison security guards, and others.

Cevin Soling is president of Spectacle Films, Xemu Records and World Watch Productions. He is an advocate for civil rights, focusing on children as the world's most neglected group. Currently, he is working on the second film of The War on Kids documentary series which will focus on American culture at large and its aggressive campaign of oppressing youth. Soling's other work includes his award-winning documentary The War on the War on Drugs and his films Relax It's Just Sex (starring Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty and Cynda Williams, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was seen on HBO and Showtime), A Hole in the Head and Urine: Good Health among others.

Founded in 1924, Nazareth College is a coeducational college with undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs in health and human services, education, and management. The College is located on 150 scenic acres near Rochester, New York, and currently enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students. Nazareth has a strong commitment to experience-based learning and civic engagement. In the past decade, Nazareth has produced 18 Fulbright recipients and two Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships. For more information on the College, visit www.naz.edu.

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