This modestly produced documentary packs an emotional wallop unlike any other in recent memory. It takes place in the rural, blue-collar Tennessee community of Whitwell, where a middle-school class embarks upon a simple but ambitious project: In an attempt to gauge the magnitude of World War II's Holocaust, students begin collecting paper clips, each of which represents a human life lost in the Nazis' systematic slaughter of Jews.

They are to amass 6 million paper clips, imagining each tiny piece of metal to be a human being. Thanks to the tremendous skill of directors Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab, we see how the enormity of this task transforms not only the children but their parents; indeed, the entire community. As the paper clips pile up, the people begin to understand the enormity of that long-ago manifestation of intolerance and hatred.  Description taken from  Top Documentary Films website.

The film will be followed by conversation facilitated by Edee Tenser, a Holocaust educator who was nominated for the Anne Frank Award in 2004, the year this award went to today’s documentary, Paper Clips.