Freedom Writers Round-Table: Why People Connect to Gritty Stories

This episode celebrates the television launch of our long-awaited documentary, “Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart.” You’ll hear from the dynamic director and producer, Don Hahn, and a panel of four Freedom Writers who are featured in the film -- Sue Ellen Alpizar, Mauricio Tony Becerra, Latilla Cain, and Narada Comans. By telling their stories in the documentary, the Freedom Writers are putting faces to what were once anonymous diary entries in a book or characters in a movie. In doing so, they uncover important truths about the power of storytelling, and an audience’s ability to connect with the authentic ethos that the Freedom Writers have come to embody. Book a documentary screening and a Q&A with Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers: Email our Outreach Team at [email protected] Support the production of the Freedom Writers Podcast by donating here: http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/index.php/donate