SPELLBOUND Austin Literacy Fun Bash!

Rated G; 97min; Director:Jeffrey Blitz (2002)  

Location: Alamo South Lamar

Join us for a deeply entertaining into the two-fisted world of SPELLING BEES!
Proceeds go to the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas.

About SPELLBOUND:
This incredible, Academy Award-nominated documentary is an affecting, inspiring look at eight American children as they make their way to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Defying all stereotypes and categorizations, the spellers run the ethnic and socioeconomic gamut. Emily is from wealthy New Haven, Connecticut, while April, the daughter of a bar owner from Pennsylvania, spends her summers studying. Harry is an intense, quick-witted boy from New Jersey, while Ashley is the African-American daughter of a single Washington, D.C. mother, and so on.

The film provides several minutes at home with each child before we accompany them to the National Bee, where we are swiftly reminded that only one of them has a shot at winning. As engrossing and emotional as the best fiction, one comes away from SPELLBOUND with the feeling that--whether victorious or not--the children whose tales it tells are walking into limitless futures.

PLUS: We'll be having a lightning round SPELL-OFF to get your brains and hearts pumping AND menu specials to take you back to the sweaty-palmed days of pre-adolescent mental combat!

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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