Film Screening Fundraising Event

Join the Culver City Middle School Speech & Debate Team and Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) on Monday, May 18th at the CCMS Multi-Purpose Room for a FREE (with suggested donation) screening of the Sundance awarded documentary SPEAK. The evening will also include student performances, concessions, and a conversation on how you can support Speech and Debate programs in our schools.

Where: Culver City Middle School MPR: 4601 Elenda Street, Culver City
When: Monday, May 18, 2026 from 6-8:30pm

About the film:
SPEAK follows five of the nation’s top teenage speech competitors, capturing the euphoria of victory and the devastation of defeat as they craft and perform original oratories over the course of a 9-month season. Their dream is simple: To win the Super Bowl of public speaking, the NSDA Nationals. We witness them, their coaches and their parents as they fight to keep school speech programs alive amid budget cuts, book bans and censorship efforts that reach a fevered
pitch during the 2024 election year.