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Mark (Christian Slater) moves from New York to small town Arizona for his last year of high school. He can’t make new friends and reads alone during lunch hour. Dad buys him a short wave radio set to communicate with his pals back home, which Mark uses as a private radio station in his Arizona basement. Engulfed by loneliness in real life, on the radio he is The Megahertz King – howling from the heart, electrifying the kids at school who have no idea who he is, letting it rip with his music. He rants against parents, the world, and the horrid school principal. Kids call in and participate. When one of his call-ins ends with a suicide, life takes a turn.

Introduced by David Eby

David Eby is a lawyer and is the Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, one of Canada’s oldest and most active human and democratic rights organizations. An adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia, President of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, David last year’s winner of the B.C. Human Rights Coalition and U.N. Association of Vancouver’s Renate Shearer Award for his contributions to the human rights field locally and internationally.
David focuses his work on reforming public policy that disproportionately impacts poor, mentally ill, homeless, addicted and otherwise marginalized people. His reports and advocacy have contributed to major shifts in government policy related to homelessness, provincial housing and police accountability.