Bulletproof

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Documentary

Overview

Bulletproof explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, metal detector screenings, and school safety trade shows. Bulletproof asks what these rituals reflect back at us, looking beyond immediate causes and responses to mass shootings in a cinematic meditation on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States.

Keywords

gun violence
lockdown
security
school shooting
gun control
public school

Details

Status: Released
Release date: May 28, 2020
Original language: English
Spoken languages: english
Countries: United States of America
Production: JustFilms / Ford Foundation,Independent Lens,Field of Vision,ITVS,Doc Society,Corporation for Public Broadcasting,Walking Productions,Walking Productions, ITVS, Independent Lens, Field of Vision, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Doc Society
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt11719000