Colorado School Board Refuses To Allow Filming Near Columbine
6 June 2005 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
The Jefferson County, CO school board has refused to allow an independent production company to shoot scenes at a local high school for a film about a gay teenager who is bullied by his peers and learns martial arts to protect himself. The scenes for the film, titled The Sensei, were to have been shot at Alameda High School in Lakewood, a short distance away from Columbine High School, the scene of the 1999 rampage by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, students who were said to have been bullied by classmates. School Superintendent Cindy Stevenson told the Rocky Mountain News Saturday, "Nationwide, what I see consistently is, whenever there is any issue with school violence, it gets connected to the Columbine community. In thinking of the good of the entire community who are very tired of being connected to school violence, it would just be better if it were filmed in a different location."
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