If You Build It
If You Build It

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IF YOU BUILD IT follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it sh... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in If You Build It:

Matthew Miller
Emily Pilloton

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IF YOU BUILD IT follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it shows ten teenagers the power of design-thinking to re-invent not just their town but their own sense of what's possible.

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Arts Fuse - 9/10 by Gerald PearyThis stirring, wonderful documentary follows two idealistic, tenacious young architects arriving in the deep South to teach rural high school kids to design and build.
Beliefnet - 9/10 by Nell MinowThis is a compelling narrative both in its own terms and as a metaphor of many of the core themes and conflicts in America today.
Movie Habit - 8/10 by Marty MapesUnorthodox shop class says if you build it, it will mean something to you
Common Sense Media - 8/10 by S. Jhoanna RobledoInspiring docu shows young people capable of great things.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Ann HornadayA bracing, quietly exhilarating documentary.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Walter V. Addiego[Creadon] probably errs on the side of advocacy here. But give him credit for acknowledging that idealistic endeavors don't always pay off.
Boston Globe - 8/10 by Loren KingIf this blend of community service, innovative teaching, and creative approach to design and construction sounds idealistic, the film’s final scenes deliver enough stress and sweat to show that idealism takes hard work, too.
The Script Lab - 8/10 by Nguyen LeIt's joyful upon seeing the kids realize there's a humanitarian angle to all this and discover they can do more than what the run-down surroundings dictate to them.
Shared Darkness - 7/10 by Brent SimonA bittersweet exploration of outreach and advocacy [that] illustrates the benefits of the practical application of alternative education, and the ripple effects it can create for a community.
Film Threat - 7/10 by Elias SavadaIf You Build It works successfully as a human interest story, albeit one with a bittersweet ending that condemns the stingy, misguided minds running at least one of our country's school boards...

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