Doc Soup: Hot Docs’ monthly screening series that presents Festival hits and award-winning docs.
If You Build It is
a captivating look at a radically innovative approach to education. The film
follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie
County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school
students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on
credit and grant money, and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton
and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build
project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills—it
shows ten teenagers the power of design-thinking to reinvent their town and
their own sense of what's possible. If You Build It offers a compelling and
hopeful vision for a new kind of classroom in which students learn the tools to
design their futures.
Director Patrick Creadon in attendance for post-screening Q&As.
Tickets: $15