The Bully Project

Mobbing, or group bullying, is the most common form of violence experienced by children and adolescents, primarily at school. A topic often swept under the carpet or its effects played down, this phenomenon actually causes lasting damage. Filmmaker Lee Hirsch followed three adolescents affected by mobbing and their families over a one-year period. Punches, theft, insults, false accusations: such assaults from fellow pupils turn the daily lives of Alex, Kelby and Ja’Meya into a living hell. Hirsch records the physical and psychological violence most often experienced by people who do not fit prevailing ideas of the norm, and offers a platform where those affected, their fellow pupils, teachers and school managers can express themselves. The film also includes two pairs of parents whose sons were driven to suicide by mobbing and are now engaged on the frontline in the battle to raise awareness of the problem. THE BULLY PROJECT is the powerful document of a social epidemic and an emphatic plea for us all to take a stand against mobbing.