Screening Reel Heroes
from History and Literature
Screening Reel Heroes from History and Literature
A Film Series for High
School Students
Tickets: $6 per film
The cost of the ticket
includes a pre-screening preparation workshop at your school,
a teachers' study guide, and a post-screening panel discussion.
All films are screened
at BAM Rose Cinemas at 10:30am
Age range: grades 9-12
unless otherwise noted.
This film literacy series
is designed to introduce students to film classics and allow
them to analyze and appreciate this art form. Each film is
chosen for its artistic excellence, the importance of its
theme, and its curricular connections. After each screening,
well-known speakers (artists, scholars, journalists, etc.)
lead student discussions.
This year's theme, Reel
Heroes in History and Literature , highlights ordinary
people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Whether
they are fictional or real people, the characters overcome
adversity, including physical disabilities or social, political,
or economic circumstances. These films provide inspirational
role models, moral dilemmas to debate, and examples of
exceptional writing, directing, and acting. Each film is
based on a literary source-a play, novel, or memoir-providing
the opportunity to compare the way different media can
tell the same story.
Included in this series
are the following topics:
Overcoming Discrimination/Civil Rights
A Raisin in the
Sun / To Kill a Mockingbird / Sarafina! / 12 Angry Men
Overcoming Physical Disabilities
The Miracle Worker
/ To Kill a Mockingbird / My Left Foot
Political Action
Julia / Sarafina!
Moral Dilemmas
A Raisin in the
Sun / To Kill a Mockingbird / Julia / The Night of the
Hunter / 12 Angry Men / The Natural
ALL FILMS ARE FOLLOWED
BY A 45-MINUTE DISCUSSION
A Raisin in the Sun
Oct 15 at 10:30am
The Miracle Worker
Nov 7 at 10:30am
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nov 25 at 10:30am
Julia
Dec 17 at 10:30am
The Night of the Hunter
Mar 2 at 10:30am
My Left Foot
Apr 1 at 10:30am
Sarafina!
Apr 25 at 10:30am
The Natural
May 19 at 10:30am
Literacy Through Film
Residency ( 12 Angry Men )
Screening
Young Heroes in
History and Literature
Just as it is important
that all students study key works in literature, music, dance
and the visual arts, they should also be familiar with film
classics and learn how to analyze and appreciate this art
form. Every film in this series was chosen for its artistic
excellence, the importance of its theme, its curricular connections
and its relationship to literature. All the films are based
on a literary work--a play, novel, or autobiography--providing
the opportunity to compare the way different media can tell
the same story. Each screening is followed by a student discussion
led by artists, educators, or critics.
Not all heroes can be
found in the history books or in the great works of literature;
heroes are often young people who are thrust into extraordinary
circumstances. In these films some of the characters are
based on real individuals, others are fictional, but in every
case they are reel heroes, shaped by the film medium. The
characters in these films are heroic because they overcome
some form of adversity, including physical disabilities or
social or economic circumstances. These films provide students
with inspirational role models, moral dilemmas to debate,
and examples of exceptional writing, directing and acting.
All films are followed
by a 45-minute discussion.
The Miracle Worker
November 6 at 10:30am
The Secret Garden
February 11 at 10:30
am
October Sky
May 11 at 10:30am