Movies for reflection
In the constantly changing global environment is it always difficult for educators to keep up with new materials and innovative aid for teaching. We have discovered an amazing source for teaching about cultural competence that will enable teachers to get the massage across and inspire students to learn more about different cultures.
Journeys in Film is a nonprofit organization and is a project of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, a nonpartisan research and public policy center that studies the social, political, economic and cultural impact of entertainment on the world and translates its findings into action.
Now the movies they have selected and the lesson plans they have developed are available for our teachers to help students broaden their horizons and open their minds to the new and unfamiliar.
More information on the movies, previews, and lesson plans for each movie are available at the Journeys in Film website.
Journeys in Film is a nonprofit organization and is a project of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, a nonpartisan research and public policy center that studies the social, political, economic and cultural impact of entertainment on the world and translates its findings into action.
Now the movies they have selected and the lesson plans they have developed are available for our teachers to help students broaden their horizons and open their minds to the new and unfamiliar.
More information on the movies, previews, and lesson plans for each movie are available at the Journeys in Film website.
1. Dying to Tell the Story is about a journalist, Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old photographer who was killed in Somalia in 1993. Born in London and raised largely in Kenya, he cared passionately about travel and visited 46 countries during his all-too-short lifetime.
2. Happy is an award-winning feature-length documentary that takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.
3. Defiant Requiem tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schachter, a brilliant young and passionate Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1941.
4. The Dhamma Brothers: Considered worse than worthless by their society, these men undertake a radical inner journey which transforms their self-image, gives them power over their impulses, and enables them to give back to the narrow community in which they must spend their remaining years.
5. The Cup is the story of a group of young Tibetan boys living as monks in a remote monastery at the foot of the Himalayas in Northern India.
6. The Way Home follows a seven-year-old boy from the big city in South Korea, to a small and remote rural community, where he must live with his partially deaf and completely mute maternal grandmother while his mother looks for a job.
7. Children of Heaven is a contemporary Iranian film about families, compassion, moral responsibilities and issues of limited resources.
8. Whale Rider reveals the struggle between Koro, the old chief of a Maori (New Zealand) community, and Pai, his young and determined granddaughter.
9. Beat the Drum – South Africa is a contemporary South African film about the devastation of HIV / AIDS.
10. Please Vote For Me is a contemporary Chinese film about an experiment with democracy in a class of third graders at the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, where students will vote to decide who will fill the prestigious position of Class Monitor.
11. Like Stars on Earth, India: Eight-year-old Ishaan's world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate.
2. Happy is an award-winning feature-length documentary that takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.
3. Defiant Requiem tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schachter, a brilliant young and passionate Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1941.
4. The Dhamma Brothers: Considered worse than worthless by their society, these men undertake a radical inner journey which transforms their self-image, gives them power over their impulses, and enables them to give back to the narrow community in which they must spend their remaining years.
5. The Cup is the story of a group of young Tibetan boys living as monks in a remote monastery at the foot of the Himalayas in Northern India.
6. The Way Home follows a seven-year-old boy from the big city in South Korea, to a small and remote rural community, where he must live with his partially deaf and completely mute maternal grandmother while his mother looks for a job.
7. Children of Heaven is a contemporary Iranian film about families, compassion, moral responsibilities and issues of limited resources.
8. Whale Rider reveals the struggle between Koro, the old chief of a Maori (New Zealand) community, and Pai, his young and determined granddaughter.
9. Beat the Drum – South Africa is a contemporary South African film about the devastation of HIV / AIDS.
10. Please Vote For Me is a contemporary Chinese film about an experiment with democracy in a class of third graders at the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, where students will vote to decide who will fill the prestigious position of Class Monitor.
11. Like Stars on Earth, India: Eight-year-old Ishaan's world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate.