The Forbidden Education

The Forbidden Education
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Directed byGerman Doin
Written byGerman Doin
Produced byVerónica Guzzo, Cintia Paz, Franco Iacomella
StarringGastón Pauls
Distributed byOnline distribution
Release date
  • August 13, 2012 (2012-08-13)
Running time
145 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

The Forbidden Education (Spanish: La Educación Prohibida) is an independent documentary released in 2012. The film documents diverse alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain and includes educational approaches such as popular education, Montessori, progressive education, Waldorf, homeschooling.

It became the first released movie in Spanish to be funded under a crowdfunding methodology.[1] It was also highlighted by its distributed screening proposal that enabled a synchronized release in 130 cities in 13 countries with a total number of 18,000 viewers in a single day.[2][3] One week after its release, the movie was viewed almost 2 million times.[4][5]

The film was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

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  2. ^ "Hoy se estrena la película "La Educación prohibida"". cba24n. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  3. ^ "La Educación Prohibida". El Universal. 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  4. ^ "Presentaron el documental "La educación Prohibida"". mdphoy.com. 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  5. ^ "A una semana del estreno mundial | La Educación Prohibida". Educacionprohibida.com. 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2015-03-06.