Indoctrinate U: New Documentary Film Exposes Repressive Political Climate on America's Campuses


NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Enforced political conformity. Intolerance. Hostility to religion. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. Kangaroo courts. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. But instead, this
assault on free thought is taking place all over America -- right now -- on
our nation's campuses.

Award-winning filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's new documentary film,
Indoctrinate U, reveals the ugly truths about academia that you won't see
in glossy admissions brochures. Produced by On The Fence Films with the
support of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), the film's trailer and
website went live today at http://www.IndoctrinateU.com.

"When we think of college, we think of intellectual freedom. We imagine
four years of exploring ideas through vigorous debate and critical
thinking," Maloney said. "But the reality is very far from the ideal. What
most of us don't know is that American college students surrender their
rights to free thought and free speech the minute they set foot on campus."
London's Daily Telegraph has called the long-awaited feature-length
film "as slick and incisive as anything by Michael Moore." Hailed by the
New York Sun as one of "America's most promising" documentary filmmakers,
Maloney has assembled a scorching indictment of higher education in America
today, one that should make students, parents, trustees, lawmakers, voters,
and taxpayers sit up and take notice.

Maloney spent two and a half years investigating jaw-dropping incidents
of political persecution -- directed at students and professors alike -- at
more than twenty schools across the country. From elite Ivy League campuses
to the largest state universities and the smallest community colleges,
Indoctrinate U points a critical lens at every level of the academic
establishment.

Hard-hitting and humorous, the film tells the story of how, in the name
of education, schools from coast to coast ruthlessly compel conformity of
thought. Focusing on the experiences of students and faculty who risk
harassment, censorship, and even their futures when they dissent,
Indoctrinate U makes the campus culture wars -- often treated as an
abstract battle of ideas -- intensely personal and unforgettably human.
"To the tune of tens of thousands of dollars a year, students are being
robbed of their educations," Maloney said. "Higher education is
systematically defrauding students, parents, and taxpayers. And many
trustees, the people who are supposed to be overseeing this system, are
letting it happen by failing to act."

At once a warning and a wake-up call, Indoctrinate U is bound to stir
up controversy and to spark much-needed debate. By exposing the dirty
little secrets of higher education, this film has the potential to force
the kind of change academics have long pretended they don't need to make.
The film was produced by a team headed by Stuart Browning, a software
entrepreneur, blogger, and filmmaker; entertainment attorney Blaine
Greenberg; and Thor Halvorssen, former CEO and executive director of the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Frayda Levy, president of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), served as associate producer.


SOURCE On The Fence Films; The Moving Picture Institute

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