Jackie Fame Joins Forces with The Weinstein Company to Promote the Movie Bully

CHARLOTTE, N.C. and LOS ANGELES, Calif., (PRWEB) April 13, 2012

Jackie Fame, Inc. (FAME), the leading kid/teen social network http://www.JFame.com, is joining forces with The Weinstein Company to promote the movie Bully. After much debate over the rating, the PG-13 version of the anti-bullying documentary will open in 115 theaters.

FAME and the AMC Cinema chain will sponsor several Bully Movie Events across the country, with selected theaters offering free admission to a one-night Bully awareness event with the continued goal of involving parents, students, educators, and advocates in the movement to ending bullying.

In addition, with every Bully ticket purchased through MovieTickets.com (http://www.MovieTickets.com), FAME will provide a free download of its book Kid2Kid, Keepin it Safe Online (ISBN: 978-0-675-50025-6) made available for the NOOK and Kindle eBook formats. Kid2Kid includes great advice for young people about staying safe online, and includes a chapter about preventing bullying in cyberspace and in everyday life.

We are happy to join The Weinstein Companys Bully campaign to help raise awareness about the serious effects of bullying. We hope to help inspire kids from around the world to stand up to bullying, said Zachary Swauger 13, FAME co-founder.

This has always been a mission of the Jackie Fame network, added Joshua Swauger 11, FAME co-founder. In 2011, we launched We Have the Power at http://www.WeHaveThePower.net – a grass roots awareness movement about the terrible effects of bullying on school-aged kids. We recorded an original song, produced by DJ Boom and Hip-Hop recording artist G-Money. We wrote the lyrics to express how deeply concerned we are about bullying and its effect on our peers.

The FAME co-founders hope all school-aged kids and their parents will see Bully and join together in the fight to stop all forms of bullying.

About Bully:

Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, Bully is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary. At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a different facet of Americas bullying crisis. Bully follows five kids and families over the course of a school year. Stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus.

With an intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals offices, the film offers insight into the often cruel world of the lives of bullied children. As teachers, administrators, kids and parents struggle to find answers, Bully examines the dire consequences of bullying through the testimony of strong and courageous youth. Through the power of their stories, the film aims to be a catalyst for change in the way we deal with bullying as parents, teachers, children and society as a whole.

About The Weinstein Company:

The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, which has released such popular franchises as Scream, Spy Kids and Scary Movie. Together TWC and Dimension Films have released a broad range of mainstream, genre and specialty films that have been commercial and critical successes.

TWC releases took home eight 2012 Academy Awards

Jackie Fame Joins Forces with The Weinstein Company to Promote the Movie Bully