Sentences with phrase «of educational films»

The Forbidden Room begins with a recreation of an educational film that no one would produce and no school would show (topic: bathing) before plunging into a tale of submariners and intrepid lumberjacks composed in part from what looks like deteriorating 1920s film stock — and that's for starters.

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Flows of entertainment and educational materials, which include recorded music, feature films, textbooks, and TV entertainment are provided by the world's largest entertainment media companies.
What might have been claimed as an educational role of zoos in the past has been superseded by superb wildlife films such as those produced by Sir David Attenborough for the BBC.
One would never know, watching this film, of Christianity's elevation of women, its care for the poor, challenge to slavery, advances in science and medicine, educational system, wondrous art, extraordinary religious orders.
In England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetry.
The 2015 festival will screen over 2 hours of the most inspirational, educational and entertaining films related to the ocean from independent film makers both international and Australian.
In 1946 an educational film called «The Okinawan», became the subject of nationwide interest and was shown to many pediatricians and to many other professional groups, and at many colleges and universities.
Featuring an array of permanent and special exhibits, live programs and educational films that appeal to audiences of all ages, the Nature Exploration Center encourages visitors to explore the natural world and their connections to it.
Their films have aired nationally and internationally in more than 100 countries, are distributed in the educational market, and have screened at a variety of well - known film venues and festivals in the US and abroad.
She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.
I love them like I love hair metal power ballads, Teenagers from Outer Space, 1950s educational films and home - edited skateboard videos (actually, never mind, some of those are really GOOD).
I have advised or co-advised 20 Ph.D. and 20 post-doctoral students, and I am co-producer of an educational documentary film on evolution entitled, «The Ordinary Extraordinary Junco.»
Producer Kristin Canty's film, Farmageddon, documents as her quest to find healthy food for her four children turns into an educational journey to discover why she is denied the freedom to select thefoods of her choice from the producer of her choice.
Our mission is produce a series of films, books, web sites and educational materials that explore our interaction with beneficial bacteria throughout our entire journey through life.
A lavishly illustrated archive and blog of vintage fashion and beauty, with gorgeous imagery, films, educational reading.
A lavishly illustrated archive and blog of vintage fashion and beauty, with gorgeous imagery, films, educational reading.
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Remembering Trauma, an educational short film of complex trauma and misdiagnosis in early childhood to older adolescence.
The film opens with the faux - educational film «How to Take a Bath,» in which a creepy old man instructs viewers on the finer points of bathing while we see people putting his theories into practice.
The cast go from room to room discussing stuff, from location to location looking at stuff, explaining scenarios to each other, lots of driving around and of course the other obligatory scene where everyone watches an old educational news film reel about their enemy and how it lives.
Funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and by Derry City and Strabane District Council, Foyle Film Festival delivers a comprehensive programme of documentaries, short films and feature films from all over the world; a full programme of educational events for schools, youth, and adults and a variety of industry networking events and panel discussions.
Syllabus Series The Political Film Society encourages the use of political film in educational institutions.
For Jenner, watching this film was part of that educational experience.
Here, the film becomes rather educational as it questions the very nature of bees and their function on Earth.
If accepted, film students and up - and - coming filmmakers would get real - world experience and educational mentorship from a Hollywood 2.0 company and be introduced to a nationwide network of their up - and - coming peers!
Whilst it would be simplistic to call his work educational, the veracity and seriousness of his films invariably leaves the spectator with a wider, more comprehensive outlook.
Also, if you're looking to break into films, these classics are a great starter to learn story techniques, character development, weaving theme with plot and subplots... It's just an invaluable source of educational wealth.
It sprawls across genres, it tackles everything from prohibition to women's voting rights, worker safety to unionism, police corruption to organized crime, and it showcases slices of our cinematic history that just don't get seen outside of film archives and «educational» screenings.
This film takes the instructional as its starting point; it comprises 32 distinct instructional lessons (including classes for expectant parents and educational role plays) filmed by Farocki in the style of a fly - on - the - wall documentary.
In his interesting introduction to the piece, Leonard Maltin recalls how he and his friends would breathe sighs of relief at the «Walt Disney Presents» opening titles during educational films in school.
It is educational, heartfelt, and adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of the film, although as with New Line's excellent Infinifilm format, my wish is for the studios to reserve such treatment for films that actually deserve it instead of formula dreck with questionable scholarly value like Driven and Blow.
Other prestigious Jurors at NVFF 2013 included Dierk Sindermann, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press; Lissa Gibbs, producer of educational and network documentaries; Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer / director of the award winning Miss Representation; Musician and film director Dave Grohl; actresses Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Madeline Zima (Californication); Paul Duffy, Amazon Web Services executive; Ryan Tudhope, co-founder Atomic Fiction; and Neil Berkeley, founder of Brkly Productions (creative work includes: Project Runway, Top Chef, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, America's Next Great Restaurant and more).
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL: If you are interested in acquiring a copy of Finding Vivian Maier for your institution, to show the film, or would like to book a director talk outside of the US, please contact Mark Lane [email protected]
The Board's core activities include fostering commentary on all aspects of film production, as well as underwriting educational film programs and seminars for film students.
«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).
This includes exhibitions, acquisitions, and educational programming, in addition to screenings that explore the intersection of art and film
That it did in the end may bode well for Let's Pollute, a six - minute snarkfest about pollution so oversaturated with sarcasm it made me want to mix my cardboards and plastics out of sheer frustration, but will the young» ns who helped push Logorama to a win last year find real innovation to the ingratiating film's surface - deep regurgitation of the style of»50s educational films?
Already a significant sleeper hit in the US, the film breaks Goldwyn's rule into pieces, insisting on the educational value any mainstream portrait of impairment is bound to have, and inviting us all, kindly, to drop our guard.
It might not be as rewatchable as some of his films (and watching it «forwards» as it were, is educational, but rather robs the film of its point), but it's a pretty astonishing leap up the ladder, and it could be argued that it's the director's most complete film to date.
The film focuses on a handful of the city's musicians, including Micha Biton, whose music is heavily influenced by Moroccan sounds; singer Hagit Yaso, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia and who sings in Hebrew, English and Arabic, among other languages; Teapacs, a band whose members have Tunisian, Moroccan, Romanian, Syrian, Polish, Russian and Yemenite heritage and whose album sales exceed 300,000; and Avi Vaknin, a singer, composer and music producer who for many years managed Sderock, a music club and educational center for teenagers.
In 1981, recognizing the need for informational programs and resources among the rapidly growing metroplex film community, the Festival dramatically increased its scope by offering a slate of activities throughout the year with a special emphasis on educational programs.
The AFS has become one of the nation's top film organizations showing over 200 films a year, has educational programs, and has given out over $ 1,500,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers since 1996.
The film starts by stating a group of vampires are being documented by the New Zealand Programming Board for what seems to be research and educational purposes.
The idea of creating a third way to see this story, to have a two - hour relationship film or give the viewer the choice of seeing it in the three hour, two - part perspective is one of the most educational film experiences I've had in my life.
is an illuminating, educational, and entertaining film that's worthy of your attention if you're a film fan at all.
Though nominally a celebration of the life and storied career of children's broadcaster Fred Rogers, anchored in present - day talking - head interviews with collaborators and friends that threaten at times to bludgeon the delicate and achingly sincere archival footage of Rogers's show «Mr. Rogers» Neighborhood», Neville's film has a bit more teeth as a manifesto for how children's educational programming that resists the trends of busyness, noise, and violence can function as a form of public service, instilling values like neighbourly stewardship and mutual respect.
The film opens with a designation — «An educational experience... filmed by J.L. Guerin» — that downplays directorial solicitation, as though the proceeding events are merely recorded by an impartial filmmaker for the purposes of posterity.
In March 2018 the Ocean Film Festival World Tour will screen over 2 hours of the most inspirational, educational and entertaining films related to the ocean from independent film makers both international and Australian.
Their film on Mission Hill is still in the editing process, but they've produced ten episodes that will be shown on a range of educational sites in the next months.
On rare occasions, we'll approve the use of a certain clip for an educational documentary film or another nonprofit organization's needs, but we typically don't grant this kind of permission, as we then have no control over the output and the context the clips are used in.
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