| Teenager Shelby Knox is a heroine
for our times - a brilliant, clear-spoken, principled political activist,
who in 30 years may well be President of the United States. Filmmakers Marion
Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt follow Shelby as she battles to have sex education
included in the curriculum at her high school in conservative Lubbock, Texas.
Although Shelby's parents are, like the majority of Lubbock's citizens,
Republican and members of the fundamentalist Baptist church, they support
their daughter's right to advocate for her beliefs even as they wonder we
she got them. Shelby, who has taken the church's "True Love Waits"
virginity pledge, is also aware that Lubbock has one of the highest rates
of teen STDs and pregnancy in the nation. In fighting for her belief that
sex education saves lives, she faces off with the school board, the principal,
and her pastor. She may not win the battle, but there's no doubt she will
win the war. (Amy Taubin)
2005 Sundance Film
Festival: WINNER Cinematography Award
Directors/Producers:
Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt
Marion Lipschutz
and Rose Rosenblatt met while working on THE HUMAN LANGUAGE, a series
on how language works and what it is. Later that year they formed a partnership,
co-directing THE ABORTION PILL, about the controversy over the French
drug RU486. Next came FATHERHOOD USA and LIVE FREE OR DIE (PBS/POV 2000),
about a small town abortion provider and his community. Most recently,
they produced THE TRENCHCOAT GANG, about the most successful bank robbers
in U.S. history.
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