The last screening in the Town of Okotoks Movies for Change initiative goes next week.

In March 2017 the Town and The Okotoks Film Festival partnered together to program a year of films which open up conversations and offer important messaging.

On Wednesday, Jan. 10, a screening of the documentary "Bully" will be hosted at the Rotary Performing Arts Centre to wrap up the initiative.

Katie Fournell, Okotoks Film Festival president, says they tried to screen movies throughout the year focused on topics that resonate worldwide, and right here in Okotoks.

"It shows bullying in schools, the effect bullying has going forward in people's lives, and the effects it has more immediately." she says. "We wanted movies that are relevant to issues that are coming up in the world at this time, and also that are still resonating in the world. Bully is actually an older movie released in 2011, but we still feel that the message in important."

While some of the topics in the movie, including suicide, may be graphic, Fournell feels its important even pre-junior high aged youth see it.

"When they enter junior high bullying kind of turns it's nasty head and becomes much more unbearable than it was even a few years earlier, when bullying was more teasing and less hurtful, the mind set kind of changes. I think being younger than junior high age it's also important to see, so that when they enter junior high they are aware of these issues and don't fall victim to them on both sides; as the bully or the bullied."

The screening of Bully begins at 7 p.m.

For more information on Movies for Change click here.

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