SPECIAL YALLFest SCREENING Thursday November 14 at 7pm

A diverse cast of visionary teenagers from SC, stirring public protests, private threats, criminal charges, and drama-filled school board meetings: this is the explosive world of Banned Together. The film pulls back the curtain on two of the most controversial issues in America today: book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools. Banned Together follows three students from  and their adult allies as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. As they evolve from local to national activists – meeting with bestselling/banned authors, politicians, Constitutional experts, and more – the film reveals the dark forces behind the accelerating wave of book bans in the U.S.

Filmmaker Jennifer Dumas Wiggin will be in conversation with YALLFest authors David Levithan and Maggie Tokuda-Hall at the American Theater Cinema on Saturday at 3 p.m. for the Banned Together panel. Jennifer will also be at the screening on Thursday to say a few brief remarks before the film.