“Freedom Writers” chat with Kim Voynar

Freedom Writers tells the true story of teacher Erin Gruwell and her students — a class of left-behind ghetto kids nobody cared about or believed in — who, in working together, overcame the negative expectations of a school system that had given up on them. The real students — who called themselves the Freedom Writers after they started journaling events in their lives — had their real-life stories from their journals published in a book, and now writer/director Richard LaGravenese and Hilary Swank have brought their tale to the big screen. more