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“About Face” Body Image Benefit: America the Beautiful Movie

May 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

May 15, 2009 He’s baaaaaaaaaack! ‘Tell it like it is’ director Darryl Roberts of America The Beautiful is wrapping his last personal appearance on his U.S. screening tour to benefit two worthy Bay … [Read more...]

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America the Beautiful: An “R” Rated Movie You WANT Kids To See

September 3, 2008 by Amy Jussel 23 Comments

Teens and tweens have heard more raw verbiage on school grounds in any given day than Eve Ensler's little snippet in America the Beautiful that garnered the documentary an ‘R’ rating. … [Read more...]

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America the Beautiful Documentary: See it. Support It.

August 22, 2008 by Amy Jussel 18 Comments

Shaping Youth’s K-5 playground documentary in development, “Body Blitz: Media, Shaping Youth” should get a big boost of media ‘umpf’ and fiscal validation with the … [Read more...]

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