Adults and teens, join us for a special screening of Screenagers: Growing Up In the Digital Age.
When: Monday, March 11th at 7pm
Where: Stewartville High School PAC
Cost: FREE (RSVP info coming soon)
Where: Stewartville High School PAC
Cost: FREE (RSVP info coming soon)
Screenagers Film Synopsis
Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their
rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker
Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid
spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all
this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around
negotiating screen time—friction she knew all too well.
In SCREENAGERS, as with her award-winning documentaries on
mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the
vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over
social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant,
and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors,
psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts
kids’ development and offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to best
navigate the digital world and find balance.
SCREENAGERS: Growing Up in The Digital Age has been screened
more than 7,000 times to two million people in more than 60 countries around
the world.. With multiple screenings happening daily in communities across the
globe, SCREENAGERS is the first feature documentary to explore the impact of
screen technology on kids and offer parents and families proven solutions that
work. What started out as a personal story for one has grown into a national
movement, helping millions of teens and their families navigate growing up in a
world with instant access to screens.
ABOUT
Physician and filmmaker, Delaney Ruston decided to make SCREENAGERS when she found herself constantly struggling with her two kids about screen time. Ruston felt guilty and confused, not sure what limits were best, especially around mobile phones, social media, gaming, and how to monitor online homework. Hearing repeatedly how other parents were equally overwhelmed, she realized this is one of the biggest, unexplored parenting issues of our time.
Physician and filmmaker, Delaney Ruston decided to make SCREENAGERS when she found herself constantly struggling with her two kids about screen time. Ruston felt guilty and confused, not sure what limits were best, especially around mobile phones, social media, gaming, and how to monitor online homework. Hearing repeatedly how other parents were equally overwhelmed, she realized this is one of the biggest, unexplored parenting issues of our time.
As a director, Ruston turned the camera on her own family
and others—revealing stories of messy struggles over social media, video games,
academics and internet addiction. We meet Hannah, a 14-year old victim of
social media bullying who struggled trying to hide her social media use from
her mom. And Andrew, whose love of video games turned into an addiction taking
him from earning straight A’s to flunking out of college.
Interwoven into these stories, are cutting edge science and
insights from thought leaders Peggy Orenstein, Sherry Turkle, Simon Sinek, as
well as leading brain scientists who present evidence on the real changes in
the brain when kids are on screens. SCREENAGERS goes far beyond exposing the
risks of screen time, it reveals multiple approaches on how parents and
educators can work with kids to help them achieve a healthy amount of screen
time.
SCREENAGERS is blazing a new model of distribution. Our
community viewing model brings parents and educators together to start a
conversation nationwide about how screen time impacts their lives and what they
can do about it. As part of the community viewing model, parents, educators,
PTAs, religious organizations, medical practices and workplace groups can book
their own screenings at www.screenagersmovie.com. Parents are encouraged to
bring their kids to the movie.
Movie Themes
- Use of screens in school
- Boys and video games
- Girls and social media
- Risk of addiction
- Use of screens in school
- Boys and video games
- Girls and social media
- Risk of addiction
Stats
- Kids spend on average 6.5 hours a day on screens and that doesn’t include classroom or homework screen time.
- Boys spend on average the equivalent of 1.5 days on video games every week
- Some recent studies show us that screen time increases dopamine production and causes behavior that mimics addiction.
- Kids spend on average 6.5 hours a day on screens and that doesn’t include classroom or homework screen time.
- Boys spend on average the equivalent of 1.5 days on video games every week
- Some recent studies show us that screen time increases dopamine production and causes behavior that mimics addiction.
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