COME TO A FREE SCREENING OF THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX
AT THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY!

The Education of Shelby Knox profiles a young native of Lubbock, Texas, on the rocky road through high school. At 15, Shelby pledges celibacy until marriage, but because Lubbock has one of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the state, she also spearheads a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools, opposing the established "abstinence-only" curriculum. When the campaign broadens with a fight for a gay-straight alliance club in the high school, Shelby confronts her parents and her faith as she begins to understand how deeply personal beliefs can inform political action.

UNC-TV and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University invite you to a free screening of the award winning film The Education of Shelby Knox, Thursday, June 23, at 7 PM in the WHITE AUDITORIUM on the East Campus of Duke University. A facilitated panel discussion will follow. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A CHANGE IN THE LOCATION.

For more information about The Education of Shelby Knox and other upcoming documentary films featured on UNC-TV's new P.O.V. season, please see below.

P.O.V. Returns With a New Season of Provocative Documentaries
DOCS ROCK!
Saturdays, at 11 PM, Starting June 25!

The Education of Shelby Knox, by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, profiles a young Texan teen navigating high school's choppy waters. When she advocates for a comprehensive sex education campaign, instead of the mandated "abstinence-only" curriculum, and supports a gay-straight alliance at her school, the 15-year-old confronts her peers, her parents and her faith as she starts to understand how deeply personal beliefs can inform political action.

Other P.O.V. films in coming weeks include Jan Krawitz's Big Enough, revisiting some of the subjects from her award-winning 1982 film Little People and offering a unique perspective on this proud and active community; Street Fight by Marshall Curry, an urban David and Goliath story where the prize is mayor of Newark, NJ; Patrice O'Neill's The Fire Next Time, in which deeply divided Montanans find themselves caught in a web of misunderstandings; The Brooklyn Connection by Klaartje Quirijns, a Brooklyn roofer and driving force behind Kosovo's independence fight outfits a foreign guerilla army with guns and money; Susan Stern's The Self-Made Man, asking the controversial question of whether we should control how we die; and Jessica Yu's In the Realms of the Unreal, revealing a startling universe of innocence and pain in late outsider artist Henry Darger's life and work. And enjoy an encore presentation of the cult favorite Wattstax, Mel Stuart's 1973 documentary about the "Black Woodstock," a benefit concert attended by 90,000 people and staged by the legendary Stax recording label.

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