This document summarizes several short films created by students at the American Community School to highlight various social issues. It describes the characters and their stories, including Gregory, a gay student facing bullying; Victor, who bullies gay students due to internalized homophobia; David, who uses drugs to cope with family issues; Boriana, a rebel who uses substances to escape social problems; Vanessa and Mia, who face pressure to conform to social expectations around behavior and appearance; Nicky, who teases minorities due to conservative beliefs; and Omar, an international student facing racism. The students selected these issues because they wanted to depict real problems occurring at their school and promote discussion.

1. High School Never Ends
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2. Low tolerance
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§ Gregory- represents a student, that is gay ( thus a part of the
LGBT society) . People are not aware that other than
sexuality he’s just like them, so they are not accepting him
and Greg is being tortured, laughed at etc. We have
portrayed the problems Gregory faces by showing his
interactions with other students. We have chosen this
particular public issue, because at ACS, even though we are
more accepting, still there’s room for improvement.
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3. Internal homophobia, bullying
§ Victor-has internal homophobia, which leads to his bullying of
gay guys. However, he has developed internal homophobia,
because in his everyday life he sees gays being bullied, thus,
his phobia is something like a defense mechanism. We
showed Victor’s internal problems by showing his
interactions with “Faggory”. This issue was chosen due to the
fact that we wanted to show why sometimes boys develop
internal homophobia and another reason why LGBT people
are bullied.
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4. Parents and Drugs
§ David (Da Weed)- representative of kids with problems with their
parents, who have decided to take drugs, so that they no longer
care or at least think about that. Furthermore, he has decided that
he needs to take his life into his own hands, so he has started an
easy business, which could provide him with a lot of easy and fast
money. We have decided to show this public issue in particular,
because in ACS the problem of drug usage is a really developed
and actual problem, from which a lot of students suffer.
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5. Society and substance usage
§ Boriana- represents a rebel, meaning that what she doesn’t
like, she doesn’t do. Furthermore, she is considered to be an
outsider, because she doesn’t want to be shallow and she
has more profound thoughts which lead to her not wanting to
have any connection with the “high class” students. Because
of all these disagreements she faces, she just like Da weed,
wants to escape in some way from these problems. We have
showed this by showing her interaction with other students
and usage of drugs and alcohol. We showed this problems
as another reason why student decide to take drugs.

6. The Social Push
§ Vanessa- represents a student who has been pushed from
society to do pertain things like psychological bullying in
order to fit in the society. We showed in our movie this, by
showing her behavior before and after she had enough of all
of these activities that she does not enjoy and agree with.
We chose this problem, because in Acs many student
pretend to be someone else just to fit in and may harm
themselves and a lot of other people while doing this.
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7. The Social Push 2
§ Mia-represents again a student that has been pushed by
society to do some things such as starving, doing diets etc.
Moreover, the other girls have smashed so much her self-
confidence that she wants to hook up with several different
boys, so that she can prove to herself that she is actually a
great person. However, this leads to her getting pregnant.
We showed this problem by showing her eating problems
and pregnancy. The choosing of this problem was due to the
fact that many girls at ACS do diets and hook up almost
randomly with guys.
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8. Old-fashioned beliefs
§ Nicky- represents a student, that has been brought up with
extremely right beliefs and thus, has low tolerance for
minorities. Due to that, she is teasing them. We have showed
her behavior by representing various chats she has with or
for those groups. This public issue was chosen by us,
because of the same reason we chose the homophobia
towards Greg. We decided, that we want to explain why
homophobia and bad treatment as a whole of minorities
occur.
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9. Racism
§ Omar is our representative of the ACS’s internationals, and
their problems with the majorities of society. Omar is being
tortured for his beliefs and ethnicity. Furthermore, he’s being
bullied. We showed this issue form his physical and
psychical interactions. We included this public issue due to
the low tolerance of majorities towards minorities.

10. Credits
§ Simona and Ani filmed.
§ Ani builded up the whole thing
§ Alex made most of the presentation.
§ Alex, Chris, Polly, Panny, Milly and other people acted in the
movie.
§ The script was a group effort, especially in that class when
we revised it, but most was done by Polly and Simona.
§ Polly and Simona made the script
§ Polly, Chris, Simona, Milena, Alex, Siyana, Pany made
helped for editing of the script
§ Special thanks to: Rosen, Omar, Terry, LINA and others 