Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss the pair’s acclaimed documentary feature Boys State in a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
Joining them was Steven Garza, one of the 1,000 teenage subjects in the film who participated in the annual event at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Boys State program takes place over the course of a week in all 50 states, with thousands of high school students participating in mock exercises to build representative state governments from the ground up.
Garza himself was one of the teenagers who ran for governor — Boys State’s highest office — and the Apple TV+ documentary follows his campaign, from his arrival to the final vote count.
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