Bulletproof will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020. This film will be only available to viewers in New England.

Among the normalized traditions of the American school system of cheerful parades, sports rallies, and morning announcements comes a new, more ominous ritual of self-defense drills in the forms of deterrence, defense, and counter-attack. BULLETPROOF looks at the complexities of anti-school shooting measures by exploring the growing amount of preventative mechanisms embedded in the educational system. The film carefully examines the profilerance of gun trade shows to highlight the costs of a psychological warfare permeated by the military industrial complex, and the ways in which the grips of private enterprise infiltrate the limited political response to mass-shootings with more weapons. Todd Chandler’s observational gaze maintains a critical distance with these events to create a collective portrait of anxiety, paranoia, and professionalization on school safety that will leave no one indifferent. Thoughtfully conceived and edited, the film highlights the discord of politics, mental health, and economics past its abstract meanings that affects the everyday life of children in public school. (MG)