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Winner of the Best Human Rights Film award at the Taos Mountain Film Festival, COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR is a poetic glance at events that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad, and with its people. Bill Nevins, Humanities Teach and Youth Poetry Coach, was fired for standing up for student freedom of expression. His Rio Rancho High School Poetry Slam Team was forcibly disbanded and silenced. Days after his removal, hundreds of peaceful protestors were brutally assaulted by police. But out of this fire arose a diverse community of artisans, poets and musicians whose courageous words could not be silenced. They came together in a series of unifying events referred to as Poetic Justice.

COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR documents performances from Santa Fe and New York City, offering an inspiring account of how America's artistic community responded to threats to our civil liberties. Pick up this inspiring, multiple award-winning documentary on IndiePix, and put your stake in the fight for freedom of expression.

 

• East Lansing Film Festival 2007 (East Lansing, United States)
• Sweet Onion Film Festival 2007 (Washington, USA)