Anchor Bay Home Entertainment will distribute The Weinstein Company's controversial documentary Bully a.k.a The Bully Project (2011). Directed by Lee Hirsch, the film won Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The preliminary release date is February 12th.
The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to explore "a year in the life" of bullying in the United States. From the first day of school through the last, The Bully Project intimately follows the lives of a few of the many courageous kids and families bullying has affected this past year. The film captures the distress of bullying victims, the frustration of their parents, and in some cases, the overwhelming grief when bullying ends a life.