The Education
of Shelby Knox
Thu 17 6.30 Barbican |
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Fifteen-year-old Shelby Knox joins a campaign for sex education
in the high schools of the Texas town of Lubbock. Discovering
that Lubbock has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy
and sexually transmitted diseases in the USA, Shelby, who
has grown up in a deeply conservative, religious family,
becomes an unlikely advocate for sex education, and begins
to challenge the morals and values of her parents, church
and community. The Education of Shelby Knox is
a moving and inspiring coming of age story about the journey
of a teenage girl whose developing awareness profoundly
changes her political and religious views.
US 2005 Dir. Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt 76 min.
Incite Pictures (US)
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