Educational Screenings
HOST A SCREENING
Since it’s 2025 Sundance world premiere, Heightened Scrutiny has screened at over 50 universities and colleges, with additional screenings hosted by community and advocacy groups nationwide. Often the film's director, Sam Feder, joins for lively and urgent talk back conversations about the film and the dangerous role of mainstream media in fueling anti-trans legislation.
Interested in booking a screening?
Add the film to your library catalog.
HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY is screening in libraries and educational settings. Find out where we’ve been below.
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Hunter College, CUNY
Columbia School of Journalism
Portland State University
University of Washington, Tacoma
Monmouth University
University of Southern California
Packer Collegiate Institute
Hostos Community College, CUNY
University of Massachusetts
LaGuardia Community College
University of Richmond School of Law/OUTLaw
California State University, Northridge
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Stanford University
Georgetown Law
Harvard Law School
CUNY School of Law
New York University
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Brooklyn College, CUNY
City Tech College, CUNY
Dartmouth College Duxbury Free Library
Emerson College
Florida High School Democrats Hammer Museum
Lambda Law Alliance at Loyola University
McDermott WIll & Emery LLP
Morrill Memorial Library
New York University
PFLAG Wenatchee
Planned Parenthood Hudson-Peconic
Princeton Library
Rainbow Rose Center Rutgers
Santa Clara University
School of Media Arts
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University College of Law
The American Constitution Society at Northeastern Law
The Community Builders, Inc.
The Sanctuary for Public Media Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
Toronto Metropolitan University
Triangle Free Thought Society
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of Washington, Seattle
USPATH
Vermont College of Fine Arts
York University
FAQ
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Materials to support your screening can be found here:
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Interested in hosting the film’s director Sam Feder, for a post screening talk back? Fill out a host a screening form above.
Director talk backs are typically 30 minute moderated conversations, with a portion to answer audience questions.
A strong, prepared, and trustworthy moderator makes all the difference! Past moderators have included faculty, students, and local organizers.
If you are doing a panel and Q&A, we recommend no more than 4 people onstage including the moderator.
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Run Time: 90 Min
This film is appropriate viewing for:
5th-12th Grade
College - General Adult
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Closed captioning available in English and Spanish.
Educational Praise
“Heightened Scrutiny should be required viewing for all students. It has the power to inspire a whole new generation to become legal scholars, lawyers, social justice activists, and compassionate citizens"
- Kelly Spivey, Brooklyn College - CUNY
“Heightened Scrutiny is an excellent resource for educators. It explores identity, society, mass communication, and so much more in a way that seamlessly connects the classroom to the rest of the world. ”
- Theodore Kerr, Manhattan University.
"Heightened Scrutiny offers a powerful lens through which our students can examine justice, identity, and the systems that shape their lives.”
- Melissa Bourgeois, Global School Brooklyn
“Heightened Scrutiny is a documentary about a present-day civil rights movement in America. It educates us on why Transgender rights are critical to the perseverance of our democracy”.
- LISA A. LINSKY Partner, Litigation Group
“"We chose to show Heightened Scrutiny to our middle school students because knowledge is power. By sharing the story of a community fighting back and the courage it takes to demand justice and visibility, the film challenges students to consider the kind of world they want to help create: one that reduces people to stereotypes, or one that allows everyone to be seen in their full humanity."“
-JENNIFER GREENWALD, Wingra School
