HAZING - Teaser | A Byron Hurt Film

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Hazing, from award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt, offers a nuanced and deeply personal look inside the culture of hazing on America’s college campuses. In the film, Hurt, a member of a fraternity himself, talks to families of young people who died from hazing, survivors, and fellow fraternity brothers in Black and historically white Greek-letter organizations. Expertly weaving these moving first-hand testimonies with insights from hazing and violence-prevention experts and campus professional staff, Hazing provides an empathetic and at times heartbreaking portrait of a culture that confers a sense of belonging even as it too often leads to violence, sexual degradation, binge drinking, institutional coverups, and debased notions of manhood. The film also situates the troubling individual and group behaviors associated with hazing within broader historical, institutional, social, and cultural contexts. Hazing is an extraordinary resource for educators and advocates working to reform hazing culture and combat campus violence, especially those interested in bystander-based violence prevention and larger issues of race, gender, identity, alienation, and belonging.