Boys State (film)

See also: Boys/Girls State

Boys State
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Produced by
  • Amanda McBaine
  • Jesse Moss
CinematographyThorsten Thielow
Edited byJeff Seymann Gilbert
Music byT. Griffin
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • January 24, 2020 (2020-01-24) (Sundance)
  • August 14, 2020 (2020-08-14) (United States)
Running time
109 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Boys State is a 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine. It follows a thousand teenage boys attending Boys State in Texas, coming to build a representative government from the ground up.

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020, where it won the U.S. Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize. It was released on Apple TV+ on August 14, 2020, by A24 and Apple.

In 2024, Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine released the companion film Girls State, which follows the 2022 Girls State Program in Missouri.

  1. ^ "Boys State". Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.