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| BLUE EYED offers a first chance to sit-in on a full-length workshop with America's most celebrated and dynamic diversity trainer, Jane Elliott. Her "blue eyed/brown eyed" workshop, initiated in 1968 as a ground breaking experiment in anti-racist training, has been featured all over the United States on Today, the Tonight Show, Donahue, Oprah, ABC Nightline and PBS' Frontline. Elliott believes, "The film BLUE EYED is by far the most comprehensive and exciting on my work available it sums up 28 years of experience in the emotional impact of discrimination". |  Jane Elliot |
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In BLUE EYED we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. In just a few hours under Elliott's withering regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands. |
Back at her Iowa home, Elliott reflects upon how the simple classroom exercise she devised the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination has transformed her life. After her experiment got national television coverage, she recalls, townspeople made threatening phone calls, beat and spit at her children and boycotted her parents' coffe shop, eventually forcing it out of business.
Clips from her original classes and interviews with former students confirm that Jane Elliott's workshops make them permanently more empathetic and sensitive to the problem of racism. Counselors, student program administrators, corporate trainers and psychologists agree BLUE EYED is a film every American needs to experience - what about us?
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