Louder Than a Bomb

Release	May 18, 2011 (Limited)
Cast	Kevin Coval, Adam Gottlieb, Elizabeth Graf, Kevin Harris, John Hood
Director	Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel
Genres	Documentary
Studio	Balcony Releasing
Length	99 mins.
Website	LouderThanABombFilm.com

Synopsis

Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world's largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the turbulent lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and viceversa. Louder Than a Bomb is not about high school poetry as we often think of it. It's about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems--and what they get out of them--is universal: the defining work of finding one's voice.

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