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Jane Elliott Against the World

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Roxanne T. Mueller Award - Best Documentary Feature Winner
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Festival Year: 2026
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Run Time: 99 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Genre: Documentary
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Interests: Women-Centered Stories
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Countr(ies): USA
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Language: English
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English Subtitles: No
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A rural Iowa schoolteacher becomes a national voice against racism after leading a controversial 1968 lesson in discrimination with her all-white third-grade class. Now nearly 90, she refuses to hold back amid today’s fights about race, history, and power after a lifetime of speaking out.

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Programmer's Comment:

“Jane gives a whole new meaning to ‘You Have to Be Carefully Taught’. Powerful. She was way ahead of her time, and still she goes on”. – Samira

Cast & Crew

Directed By

Judd Ehrlich

Produced By

Judd Ehrlich, Max Powers, Elena Gaby

Cinematographers

Peter Eliot Buntaine, Sean Hanley

Editors

Max Powers, Leah Goudsmit

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