Treatment: My documentary, done in an expository format, will display the reactions of students at Booker T. Washington High School to police brutality, current headlines, and the state of the racial gap in an attempt to change the tide back towards the equality that Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malolm X hoped to achieve. The leader and founder of the Black Student Union here at Booker T and future leader in Equal Rights, Elyse O'Bannon shows her background in the movement and her purpose for starting the Black Student Union at this school in Dallas, Texas. Her story is interesting because, having an attorney mentality similar to her father, she does not call on her fellow classmates to protest but instead offers opportunities to have peaceful, if heated, discussions about the state of the black community. She feels personally responsible for these students, for these parents' children, and does not want anyone of them to become a victim of these frightening headlines. This is not to say that she can't raise hell about the recent abuses in our society.
Logline: Watch "Our Lives Matter" to see how Elyse O'Bannon and her Union of high-school students go about tackling racial inequality in America.
