Watch acclaimed Hazing film free through Sept. 29!
National Hazing Awareness Week ends today …Don’t miss this acclaimed new film!
To cap off National Hazing Awareness Week (NHAW), don’t miss award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt’s critically acclaimed new documentary HAZING, a deeply personal look inside the culture, tradition, and secrecy of hazing rituals in fraternities and sororities, sports teams, marching bands, the military and beyond.
HAZING has been earning high praise from educators, campus leaders, health experts, and anti-violence advocates for its empathetic and unflinching exploration of the social and cultural dynamics surrounding hazing rituals.
In the film, Hurt, who belongs to a fraternity himself, expertly weaves first-hand testimonies with insights from violence-prevention experts to provide a nuanced and empathetic portrait of a culture that can confer a sense of belonging even as it too often leads to violence, sexual degradation, binge drinking, institutional coverups, and debased notions of manhood.
Click here to get HAZING to mark NHAW, or to integrate it into your classes and campus programming later this fall. It makes for a powerful classroom resource.
To mark NHAW, we’re also thrilled to let you know that MEF and the anti-violence organization StopHazing are collaborating once again to offer a free pass to watch HAZING through September 29. Click here to get the pass. (If you’re looking to set up a screening for your group or campus, please contact us directly.)
In addition, be sure to check out this free, downloadable HAZING Viewing Guide and other resources from StopHazing to help integrate the film into your programming and classes.
Praise for Byron Hurt’s HAZING
“HAZING is a powerful tool for Greek chapters, teams, and other organizations to frame why hazing cultures must change and how to begin those difficult conversations. Byron Hurt courageously shares his experiences and takes the viewer on a harrowing journey with hazing survivors and grieving families to examine the true cost of these brutal rituals.”
— Susie Bruce | Director, Gordie Center, University of Virginia
“HAZING directly confronts the hypocrisy of Greek-letter organizations that proclaim virtue, yet practice violence. Watch HAZING to understand why one or the other will become either our hallmark or our headstone.”
— Dr. Matthew W. Hughey | Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and co-author of A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality
“Hurt is uniquely empathetic to those who fall victim to groupthink and extends this grace to the viewer. Taking a stark look at the psychological, societal, and historical components of hazing, Hurt sparks a captivating conversation around the anxieties and expectations of belonging—and what will be sacrificed to achieve it.”
— Shakira Refos | Tribeca Festival
