This Sunday, October 9th, Dallas, Texas and the Bully Suicide Project will be host to a very special screening event of the new film, “Love Is All You Need” with director Kim Rocco Shields on-hand to introduce the film and conduct a Q&A. The film is based on the award-winning short about a world where same-sex couples are the majority and mixed-sex couples are the minority.
Kim Rocco Shields is attending screenings across the country in which each event on the tour is meant to commemorate a significant event at each stop. Before the screening, a video will be played explaining the significance. Profits from each screening will be given to the charity sponsor. The film will then be available digitally on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th. After the film receives 1 million downloads, $1Million will be donated to all of the charity sponsors.
A town is rocked when their local university’s picture-perfect star quarterback (played by Briana Evigan) is outed for being a heterosexual after her peers discover her secret love affair with a male journalist (played by Tyler Blackburn). Their community is part of a world much like our own, but with a twist: same-sex couples are the majority and mixed gender couples are the minority.
The fallout of the football star’s outing puts a spotlight on how intolerance of differences affect youth, college students, parents and the town as a whole. As the unique characters interact and their lives collide, we also get a look at the effects of other instances of bullying and persecution, each pulled from real-world experiences, including:
- An overweight fraternity pledge is subjected to traumatic hazing because of his size.
- A teacher’s (played by Jeremy Sisto) job is put on the line for selecting a pro-tolerance subject for his students’ school play.
- A religious leader and community figurehead (played by Elisabeth Rohm) misuses religion to support hate and violence.
- An 11-year-old girl resorts to drastic measures after relentless verbal, physical and cyber bullying becomes too much to handle.
- And, our hero couple faces situations of life and death, because their peers do not accept their relationship.
- In the wake of these incidents, the people of the town are forced to consider the painful experience of bullying and the drastic results of intolerance.
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