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Turning the Theater into a Classroom
Film has the power to inspire, to educate, to entertain, and to create community. CFI Education is building the next generation of filmmakers and audiences through our groundbreaking visual literacy programs. These programs use film as a personalized educational tool, promoting openness and a sophisticated worldview, and expanding classroom topics across borders and disciplines.
Working closely with 200 Bay Area schools and community groups, CFI Education presents the following educational programs to over 4,000 students per year:
CFI Education: Our flagship year-round program (approximately 50 programs annually), offers free screenings with visiting filmmakers and subject-matter experts to area school groups. Programs are created with public and private school curricula in mind, often in coordination with participating teachers and community leaders. Some of the topics addressed include racism, poverty, religion, the law, activism, war, and the environment.
We also have a new partnership with one of the premiere documentary production companies ITVS and their Community Cinema series, a monthly preview of films to be broadcast on PBS’s Emmy Award winning series Independent Lens. These films will be open to school screenings monthly at the Smith Rafael Film Center and will be accompanied by teacher classroom guides.
A Place in the World: a yearlong curriculum that guides two groups of 100 high-school students from diverse backgrounds around the Bay Area through a series of carefully selected international films that address universal coming-of-age issues.
The Young Critics' Jury: a crash course in critical thinking, filmmaking, film festivals and film curating for 20 high-school students, a smaller group who then go on to curate a selection of youth-produced films from all over the world to be screened during the Mill Valley Film Festival.
My Place: a new program starting its second year in Spring 2008 targeting at-risk youth. This intensive workshop focuses on location and its role in filmmaking, with each participant directing and producing a short film about a specific location that is their place: their home, church, school, recreation center, neighborhood or place where they feel safe. Programs have taken place in San Rafael's canal district and in Marin City and San Francisco's Mission District and Hunter’s Point.
Teacher Workshops: CFI Education came together with area secondary school teachers and University educators to create new media literacy workshops for teachers in Marin and San Francisco. Since then this project has also coordinated with CFI and the Mill Valley Film Festival to facilitate using the festival films as a teaching tool. Feedback from teachers has been wonderful and the program will be expanding in 2009 to other parts of the Bay Area.
Mill Valley Film Festival In-School Program: during the annual Mill Valley Film Festival we bring local and international directors into the classroom with their films. This includes programs for elementary, middle and high schools as well as colleges and universities.
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What You May Have Already Missed!
The thought-provoking Weather Underground with speakers Bill Ayers (co-founder of the Weathermen) and director Sam Green
The dynamic The Education of Shelby Knox with women’s rights activist Shelby Knox
The rousing German film The Wave with the teacher who inspired the film, Ron Jones
The touching Autism: The Musical with film subject Wyatt Davidson and director Trisha Regan
The inspirational Women of Tibet with director Rosemary Rawcliffe and former political prisoner Ahme Ade
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