Paper Tigers Premier Screening in Walla Walla [WA]

KPJR FILMS TO HOST COMMUNITY SCREENING OF

PAPER TIGERS, A DOCUMENTARY THAT FOLLOWS

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, IN WALLA WALLA, WA

Director James Redford To Attend

Where:

Gesa Power House           

111 N 6th Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362

(509) 529-6500

When: 

September 4, 2015 

5:00 pm and 8:30 pm

Complimentary Admission                   

Doors Open at 4:00 PM

www.PaperTigersMovie.com

KPJR Films will host a screening of Paper Tigers, a documentary directed by James Redford that focuses on adverse childhood experiences and follows select students at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA.  Paper Tigers is a relevant and timely documentary that explores the impact of adverse childhood experiences on teens while their teachers are armed with new science and fresh approaches that are changing their students’ lives for the better. Paper Tigers will be screened on September 4 at the Gesa Power House at 5:00 and 8:15 pm.   The screening is open to the general public and is free of charge.  Doors to the theater open at 4:00 pm.  You can reserve tickets at www.phtww.com.

“Paper Tigers is a moving and profoundly important film that offers critical insights into one of the most widespread educational and health challenges in American society. It should be mandatory viewing for teachers and principals across the country, and anyone who works with vulnerable youth” said David Bornstein, New York Times author and Co-Founder of The Solutions Journalism Network.  The film follows a year in the life of Lincoln High Alternative School in Walla Walla, Washington. After radically changing its approach to disciplining its students, Lincoln High School saw a dramatic turnaround in everything from the number of fights to test scores to graduation rates. The school has become a promising model of how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families through the practice of ongoing trauma-informed educational strategies.  Told with intimate verite and diary cam footage, Paper Tigers is a testament to what the latest research on childhood adversity is proving:  that one caring adult can change the trajectory of a young person’s life.

“It is an honor for KPJR Films to screen Paper Tigers in Walla Walla. We appreciate the opportunity to share Paper Tigers with the Walla Walla community who supported and made the film possible and care deeply about improving outcomes for the next generation“ says James Redford. Executive Producer, Karen Pritzker joined Redford on Paper Tigers following production of the successful, award-winning documentary, The Big Picture:  Re-thinking Dyslexia.  Redford and Pritzker have partnered to form documentary film studio KPJR Films and plan to follow Paper Tigers with a companion documentary, Resilience, which delves into the emerging unified science on human development and includes portraits of other practitioners putting that science into action.

Paper Tigers premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in May where it won second for the Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary at SIFF.  Paper Tigers has received an incredible number of screening requests, however, the Walla Walla premiere will be the first community screening and will launch Paper Tigers’ partnership with TUGG.  TUGG is a a web-platform that enables individuals, groups, and organizations to set up personalized screenings of Paper Tigers in theaters and community venues across the country through their site at https://www.tugg.com/titles/paper-tigers.