The Act of Reading -- Work-in-Progress Screening

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The Act of Reading Synopsis:

Every day, in high schools across the US, a student will fall behind in a reading assignment. Some, like the protagonist of the film, will go as far as to fail the class, only returning to the literature many years later.

Now, an almost fully-formed adult, the narrator seeks to redeem himself by presenting his former english teacher with the best book report presentation on Moby-Dick that has ever been assembled. The mighty and digressive novel pulls the resulting film in its multitudinous directions, ultimately confronting us with bigger questions about how reading works in society and the brain, what happens when it doesn’t work, and how reading a book may alter the course of your life.