Banned Together: Filmmaker Allyson Rice on the Girls That Create Podcast

This week, Girls That Create host Erin Prather Stafford welcomes Allyson Rice, part-owner of the female-owned production company Atomic Focus Entertainment and one of the lead producers on the documentary Banned Together. The film follows three students fighting the ban of 97 books from their libraries.

Listen to the full interview with Allyson Rice on Word of Mom Radio.

More about Allyson Rice

Before Atomic Focus, Rice was the Assoc. Director of Creative Development and a Producer for the STAGE Network (streaming), where she helped develop both scripted and unscripted content. She also wrote, produced, directed, and performed in the award-winning independent rap music video Fine, I’ll Write My Own Damn Song.

Rice originally spent over 15 years as an actress in the theatre and on TV (Family Ties, the Wayans brothers’ 413 Hope Street, Time Cop, and 7 years on As the World Turns). She then spent a decade leading personal growth retreats around the country. Rice is the author and narrator of the award-winning novel and audiobook The Key to Circus-Mom Highway. She has created a line of women’s coloring books (original art and writing) and was the co-creator of The Creative Prosperity Playdeck, an inspirational card deck for unblocking your creative flow.

About Banned Together

A diverse cast of visionary teenagers and intriguing characters, stirring public protests, private threats, criminal charges, and profanity-laced school board meetings: this is the world of the explosive new feature documentary, Banned Together.

The film pulls back the curtain on two of the most controversial issues in America today: book bans and curriculum censorship in public schools. Banned Together follows three teenage activists as they fight book bans in their schools, speak with national politicians, bestselling/banned authors, constitutional scholars, PEN America, and more, as the film’s scope widens to include the larger national picture.

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