TO SAVE A LIFE wasn't originally scheduled to open in Lincoln, Nebraska. But when youth worker Chris Hansen saw an advance showing in Omaha, he got it. He recognized that TO SAVE A LIFE isn't a preachy movie, but one embedded with powerful truths that can change lives. "It's a movie every teenager in America should see," Hansen told the Lincoln Journal Star. "It covers 95 percent of the issues high school kids face. Issues we have seen in Lincoln schools. This is real."

To ensure that Lincoln area students could experience TO SAVE A LIFE in their hometown, Hansen and two other youth workers from different local churches decided to raise the funds for a deposit to bring the movie to their community. They knew it would take work to network and gain support, but they also recognized the film's ability to bring people together across dividing lines to impact teens in need. "One of our hopes is to get the teenagers engaged, and that we as an adult community understand what is going on," Hansen told the Lincoln Journal Star. "I want adults to see it and realize... 'It's not like when we were in high school.'"

Read the complete story about Chris Hansen in the Lincoln Journal Star here.

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