Lesbian Birmingham Filmmaker to Create Anti-Bullying Film
Amy Weber, the lesbian mother who spoke up against Troy Mayor Janice Daniels at a December Troy City Council meeting, is working on the fictional documentary-style movie 'The Bully Chronicles' to raise bullying awareness.
Bullying. It's a hot topic, it's seemingly everywhere, and it's the focus of award-winning Birmingham filmmaker and lesbian mom Amy Weber's upcoming film, The Bully Chronicles. "In light of the past events with Mayor Daniels, as well as for kids across this country struggling each and every day, I have decided to move forward with a project that is very personal to me – The Bully Chronicles, a movement toward change in the form of a narrative feature film shot in an unscripted documentary style," Weber wrote in an email to Patch. In December, Weber and her wife Tina stood up with their two young daughters to publicly comment on Daniels' Facebook post at a Troy City Council meeting just days after the mayor's anti-gay Facebook status …
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Richard Horgan
2:32 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Sounds like a great project, especially when you also consider the narrative framing device that they will be using: "A teen lies in a coma after an attempted suicide. A film crew sets out to document the torment she suffered at the hands of a bully." more ›