The field of educational leadership tends to focus on formal schooling policy and process. Today, however, this emphasis seems incomplete, given people's growing capacity to learn, educate, and lead outside the confines of traditional schooling structures. Increasingly, educational expressions take the form of intellectual and artistic public discourse -- blended elements transmitted through visual, electronic, cyber, and other media. Largely 'untethered' from school-centered governmentality, these expressions can create currents (or 'vectors') of social influence with the potential to renegotiate social meaning. Focusing on one particular form of such expression -- popular cinema -- this paper explores and highlights the power of untethered discursive educational leadership.