It Began As A Lesson About Prejudice…

What Happened Next Was A Miracle.

 

“One of the Five Best Docs of 2004!”                   — National Board of Review

Emmy-nominated winner of over a dozen major awards!

Whitwell, TN is a tiny community of about two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, launched out of their principal’s desire to help her students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley. What happened next would change the students, their teachers, their families and the entire town forever… and eventually open hearts and minds around the world.

“Paper Clips” is the moving story of how these students responded to lessons about the Holocaust—with a promise to honor every lost soul by collecting paper clips representing each individual exterminated by the Nazis.  Despite the fact that they had previously been unfamiliar the Holocaust, their dedication was absolute. Their plan was simple but profound. The amazing result: a memorial railcar filled with 11 million paper clips which stands permanently in their schoolyard is an unforgettable lesson of how a committed group of children and educators can change the world, one classroom at a time.

“Oscar calibre”                                                                            — Joel Siegel, Good Morning America

“Patiently told and lovingly made”   — Variety

“Straightforward, heartfelt and genuine”                               — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Main credits:

ONE CLIP AT A TIME, LLC PRESENTS

A PRODUCTION OF

THE JOHNSON GROUP

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

MIRAMAX FILMS

AND ERGO ENTERTAINMENT

PAPER CLIPS

ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE – CHARLIE BARNETT

EDITOR – JULIA DIXON EDDY

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – MICHAEL MARTON

SOUND RECORDIST – ROBERT “SULLY” SULLIVAN

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS – JESSICA DAVENPORT ANSON

AND STUART AVI SAVITSKY

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

BOB WEINSTEIN    HARVEY WEINSTEIN    MATTHEW HILTZIK

JEFFREY TAHLER    ROBERT M. JOHNSON    DONNY EPSTEIN

ELIE LANDAU   YEESHAI GROSS

CO-PRODUCER – ELLIOT BERLIN

PRODUCED BY

JOE FAB    ROBERT M. JOHNSON    ARI DANIEL PINCHOT

WRITTEN BY

JOE FAB

DIRECTED BY

ELLIOT BERLIN    JOE FAB

PAPER CLIPS is rated ‘G’ with a running time of 87 minutes