Calling all educators!

Have you ever considered taking your students on a field trip to the movies? Milwaukee Film’s education screenings are a great way to expose students to different cultures and inspire their imaginations!

Join us for the Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival and use the power of cinema to engage your students while reinforcing intellectual ideas. As part of the annual Milwaukee Film Festival (Sept 27 – Oct 11, 2012), the Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival presents inspiring, beautiful, and thoughtful films that raise the bar for Milwaukee youth multicultural programming.

Education screenings incorporate curriculum for areas such as:

• Language Arts: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking Skills
• Social Science: Global Cultures, Heritage, and Cross-Cultural Understanding
• Fine Arts: Media Literacy, Filmmaking, and Animation
• Foreign Languages: Communication, Culture, and Geography

Education screenings include a trip to the Oriental Theatre or Marcus North Shore and post-screening discussions with filmmakers or media educators. Participating teachers receive film-related curriculum packets, which include the Wisconsin Model Academic and Common Core State Standards that screenings and activities meet.

Screening Dates (all begin at 9:30am)

• Grades 1-3: Wednesday, October 3
• Grades 4-6: Tuesday, October 2 and Wednesday, October 10
• Grades 6-8: Monday, October 1
• Grades 9-12: Thursday, October 4 and Monday, October 8

Tickets

$1 per student if attending with a class.

Email susan@milwaukee-film.org for more details.

How Do You Sign Up?

1)    Contact Susan Kerns, Milwaukee Film Education Director, at susan@milwaukee-film.org or (414) 755-1965 ext 203 OR fill out this form.

2)    Let her know your name, school name, grade level, approximate number of students, and the date you’d prefer.

3)    We understand that class sizes are subject to change, so reserving now holds your place for the entire class. We will confirm everything, including the film selection, and arrange for payment over the summer.

4)    Last year’s screenings filled up quickly, so reserve spaces early!

This Year’s Films

Our programmers are currently considering three internationally acclaimed animated films, several live-action films about growing up in other countries, and a couple of terrific documentaries about young people that audiences won’t see anywhere else. Final selections will be made by August.

Last Year’s Films 

Mia and the Migoo: Winner of the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature, this film screened in its original French language for elementary school students.

The Crocodiles: Middle-school students enjoyed this live-action German film, which has been compared to the beloved 80s classic The Goonies. This empowering movie engaged students while reinforcing lessons about acceptance and disability.

Louder Than a Bomb: This documentary about the Chicago-area high school poetry slam of the same name won the Audience Award at the 2011 Milwaukee Film Festival! Poets featured in the film performed for the high-school audience after the screening and answered questions about writing, being featured in a film, and life in general.

Questions?

If you have any questions, contact Susan Kerns, Milwaukee Film Education Director, at susan@milwaukee-film.org or (414) 755-1965 ext 203