From the director of Wordplay comes a captivating look at a radically innovative approach to education. If You Build It follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie county, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to transform both their community and their lives.

Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it shows thirteen teenagers the power of design-thinking to re-invent not just their town but their own sense of what's possible.

SPECIAL FEATURE:  Come at 630pm for a special workshop, free with your $9 movie admission, by the Raleigh Historic Development Commission on designating your property a Modern Raleigh Historic Landmark.  You'll hear from Modernist enthusiast Nick Fountain, owner of the Fadum House, a Raleigh Historic Landmark. Nick will share his experience rehabilitating and adding on to the historic structure, including how he worked with the RHDC to preserve and expand a modern landmark.

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