Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution Documentary Provides a Front Row Seat to the Turbo Charged Contemporary HookUp Culture. Timely Documentary Aims to Amplify #MeToo and #TimesUp Movement with a Worldwide College Tour this Spring. The Film is Currently Available on Netflix. Magic Lantern Pictures and Exodus Cry present Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution, a feature documentary about coming of age in today’s young adult hookup culture. The film provides shocking insight into attitudes and behaviors regarding sex, the normalization of sexual violation, and the struggle against conceptions of gender and sexuality shaped by the media and popular culture. The powerful, unflinching film will launch a world impact screening tour on university campuses across the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand beginning late Feb 2018. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and subjects who will share their experiences during filming, as well as how their lives have been impacted since. The film is currently available on Netflix.

Each year thousands of college students from around the globe flock to popular resort beaches for the generational rite of passage known as spring break. Over the course of a week filled with booze and casual hookups, Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution follows the journey of college students during these spring break revelries, offering an insightful look into their attitudes and behaviors regarding sex. It is an honest and raw depiction of this casual sex environment where sexual violation has become normal, and sexual assault is customary. Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution widens the view of today’s hookup culture by examining the role of pop culture in shaping conceptions of gender and sexuality that underlie this new sexual revolution.
 
At a time when the mighty #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have brought us to a cultural tipping point, Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution aims to reinforce the empowering anti-sexual assault crusade by creating and encouraging brutally honest conversations among the vulnerable young men and women directly affected by this toxic environment.
 
Liberated causes us to ask more questions than it attempts to answer. It leaves us with a lot of unresolved tension and challenges us to find solutions,” says director and producer Benjamin Nolot. “I see it as the beginning of a conversation, not the ending of one. “
Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution world impact screening tour kicks off on the west coast on February 27 at UC Berkeley.  See confirmed additional venues and timeline below. Go to www.magiclanternpictures.org for more information, and check back often for more additional tour dates being added daily.
 
February 27:Berkeley University (Berkeley, CA)
February 28: Baylor University (Waco, TX)
March 1: UT Austin (Austin, TX)
March 7: University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
March 19: Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
March 22: Mary Washington University (Fredericksburg, VA)
April 21: London Premiere (Leicester Square, U.K.)
May 1: University of Westminster (London, U.K.)
 
About the Filmmakers:
Benjamin Nolot (Director, Producer, Writer)
Benjamin Nolot is an American filmmaker and abolitionist. He is the founder of Magic Lantern Pictures, and the founder and CEO of Exodus Cry. He is known for his feature films Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011), Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017), and Beyond Fantasy (2018). Over the past decade he has campaigned aggressively for the abolition of sex trafficking. He has been a featured speaker at the United Nations and a columnist in a plethora of online and traditional media. He also hosts the Exodus Cry podcast. Benjamin is driven by a core conviction that every person should be free.
 
Morgan Perry (Producer)
Morgan Perry is an American film producer who is passionate about using media to make a tangible difference in the world. She is known for the documentaries Sex+Money: A National Search For Human Worth (2011) and Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017). Morgan has been interviewed about her work by CNN, NBC, Christianity Today, World Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Family Talk Radio with Dr. James Dobson and more. In 2012 she received a Certificate of Recognition from the United States Department of Justice for her contribution towards resource development for front-line responders to sex trafficking victims.
 
Sarah-Jane Murray (Executive Producer)
Sarah-Jane Murray is an EMMY-nominated and award-winning writer and filmmaker, who is deeply committed to shifting the needle on important social issues. Her work has been acquired by major distributors, including PBS and NETFLIX. A tenured faculty member at Baylor University, SJ is the founding co-chair of the NEXUS working group on film, media & story, has spoken and curated panels for the WhiteHouse, the United Nations, Harvard, the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and beyond, and regularly hosts events during the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW. She is the author of two books, including Basics of Story Design (2017), and has delivered two very popular TEDx talks, “Hardwired for Story” (2014) and “Write and Wrong” (2015). In 2018, SJ was selected for the inaugural cohort of #50WomenCan, celebrating the rising female leaders in the media and entertainment space, most likely to revolutionize the industry and help achieve gender parity in Hollywood.
 

About Magic Lantern Pictures:
Magic Lantern Pictures creates unflinching films that take viewers to the front lines of current social issues. The studio’s first film, Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution released worldwide on Netflix in 2018. Magic Lantern Pictures grew from the nonprofit work of Exodus Cry. Connect with us:
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About Exodus Cry:
Exodus Cry exists to break the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation and help those who have been sold for sex. The release of their award-winning documentary Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, screened for the United States Congress and the United Nations, has given them an international platform to shift culture, change laws, and reach out to sexually exploited women.