Media Alert: Lionsgate, NEA and 'AKEELAH AND THE BEE' Partners Will Be Cool to a School

Media Alert: Lionsgate, NEA and 'AKEELAH AND THE BEE' Partners Will Be Cool to a School

$100,000 to Be Donated to Winner of Bee Supportive of Your School Promotion

WHAT: To celebrate the wide release of the inspirational family film
AKEELAH AND THE BEE, currently in theatres across the country,
Lionsgate, NEA (National Education Association) and their
partners are showing their support of education by donating
$100,000 to the U.S. school (k-12) which collects and submits
the most AKEELAH AND THE BEE ticket stubs by June 6, 2006.

WHEN: Starting today, May 5, 2006 enroll your school & start
collecting ticket stubs. Entries must be postmarked by
June 6, 2006 and received no later than June 12, 2006.

WHY: The BEE SUPPORTIVE OF YOUR SCHOOL promotion builds on the film's
central themes of the power of education and encouraging parents
and educators to push students to achieve greatness and is
helping make a difference in the winning school's future with
this donation.

An inspirational drama, AKEELAH AND THE BEE is the story of
Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), a precocious eleven-year-old
girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the
objections of her mother Tanya (Angela Bassett), Akeelah enters
various spelling contests, for which she is tutored by the
forthright Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne); her principal Mr.
Welch (Curtis Armstrong) and the proud residents of her
neighborhood. Akeelah's aptitude earns her an opportunity to
compete for a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee and in
turn unites her neighborhood who witness the courage and
inspiration of one amazing little girl. A Lionsgate, 2929
Productions and Starbucks Entertainment Presentation of an Out
of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films Production in
association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc, AKEELAH AND THE
BEE was written and directed by Doug Atchison.

CONTACT: For more information & the complete rules, please visit
www.beesupportive.com.
For further information about the film, please contact
Sarah Greenberg, 310 255 3856 or sgreenberg@lionsgate.com or
Todd Nickels, 212 386 6895 or tnickels@lionsgate.com.

PRNewswire -- May 5

Source: Lionsgate

Web site: http://www.beesupportive.com/

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