
THE TRUTH ABOUT READING
SXSW EDU 2024 | Emmy-Award® winning director Nick Nanton Literacy • Education • Youth • Literacy Crisis • Reading Equality Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 82 minutes | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript & Screening Handout | Director: Nick Nanton | Executive Producers: Nick Nanton, JW Dicks & Wayne Pernell | Editor: Nick Ruff | Story Producer: Katie Tschopp From Emmy-Award® winning director Nick Nanton comes a new eye-opening documentary, THE TRUTH ABOUT READING. Literacy experts from across America, including Emily Hanford of Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong and Lacey Robinson of UnboundEd, emphasize the gravity of the illiteracy crisis and share how the implementation of science and evidence-based practices can transform lives and ensure that every child learns how to read. The documentary highlights the stories of David Chalk and John Corcoran, two men who didn’t learn how to read and write until they were adults. Follow