Jacob Burns film center
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The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural arts center located in Pleasantville, NY, is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to: presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world cinema; promoting visual literacy; and making film a vibrant part of the community.
The center also hosts a variety of special events, including discussions with filmmakers, critics and people from the industry following some screenings. The film advisory committee for the JBFC includes a number of individuals that have starred in popular films.
Along with a diverse film selection offered every week, the Jacob Burns Film Center has developed groundbreaking education programs for children in grades 3 through 12.
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[edit] Films
The Jacob Burns Film Center shows independent and documentary films. It rarely shows mainstream films, except for special showings, such as when they showed A Series of Unfortunate Events for when Daniel Handler and Meryl Streep came to a showing of the film.
[edit] Guest visitors
The Burns Film Center has attracted many famous faces to come and speak after film screenings. These include Woody Allen, Angela Bassett, Colin Firth, Tim Burton, Scarlett Johansson,Edward Norton, Martin Scorcese, Oliver Stone , Ron Howard, John Travolta, William Hurt, Vanessa Williams, Selma Hayek, Isabella Rossellini, Kevin Smith, Daniel Handler, Stephen Soderbergh, Omar Sharif and Jonathan Demme.
[edit] Education
Education is a central mission of the Jacob Burns Film Center. Working with theEducational Advisory Board the JBFC has developed education programs that aim to provide students of all ages with the skills necessary to thrive in a world increasingly dominated by the visual image.
Programs offered start at the 3rd grade with See • Hear • Feel • Film; 4th graders participate in Animation: Minds in Motion!; students in 7th and 8th grade enjoy Cinemania while juniors and seniors in high school can spend their summers working in Unscripted. Students in grades 5 to 12 can also particpate in Classroom to Screening Room.
[edit] See • Hear • Feel • Film
See • Hear • Feel • Film teaches third grade students critical viewing and listening skills and the techniques of teling a story through film. Using film to spark their own crreatvie expression, the children learn to write with clarity, confidence, and joy, and improve their own storytelling skills. The curriculum consists of viewing short movies from around the world, participating in writing exercises, and creative collaboration. This program is available as a series of class trips to the Jacob Burns Film Center or as a classroom-based experience. Workshops at the Film Center are led by master teacher with the assistance of trained volunteer educational facilitators.
[edit] Animation: Minds in Motion!
This animator-in-residence program gives fourth grade students the opportunity to explore the world of animation by collaboratively writing, storyboarding, directing, and producing their own original short animated films. The 12-week program culminates in a red-carpet premiere of the films at the Jacob Burns Film Center where every student receives a copy of his/her film. Workshops are led by professional animators with the assistance of trained volunteer educational facilitators. The program has been taught in a variety of in-school, after-school, and summer settings.
[edit] Cinemania
Cinemania gives young movie buffs the opportunity to explore through film the experience of childhood in all corners of the globe. This ten-week after-school program offers weekly meetings that include a movie screening, an interactive disucssion, and writing and reading film reviews. Students assist in the presentation of special community events such as Movie Crafts for Kids and Cinemania Bash. Cinemania nurtures an appreciation for the cinema arts, provides an introduction to visual literacy, fosters self-expression, and expands students' worldview.
[edit] Unscripted
Through this transformative intergenerational summer program, high school students learn about the craft of documentary and visual storytelling and each create an orginial film about a senior citizen living in their community. They do everything from writing an outline and interviewing to filming and editing. The production experience in enhanced by the study of the documentary genre through film screenings and clips presentations. In the process, students and seniors are able to bridge a gap rarely achieved between young people and the elderly. This unique program culminates in a red-carpet premiere of the documentaries at the Jacob Burns Film Center, featuring a Q&A with the filmmakers and a cameo appearance by each of the documentary subjects.
[edit] Classroom to Screening Room
Classroom to Screening Room is an opportunity for middle and high school students to watch films that enhance their study of literature, social studies, science, foreign languages, and the visual and performing arts. Incorporating the study of moving images into the core curriculum extends the learning process beyond the classroom while working towards the goals designated for each grade level and subject area. Guest speakers and filmmakers, as well as presentations and discussions facilitated by JBFC educators, make this program unforgettable. The major components of the Classroom to Screening Room cirriculum includes: visual and film literacy presentation: essential cinema; JBFC programming; documentaries and historical features; literacy adaptations; and foreign films.
[edit] Education Center
On November 16, 2006, ground was broken on a new multi-Million dollar Educational Center. When completed in January 2008, the innovative 25,000 square feet facility serve as a base for educational programs and will house the latest technology for producing visual and digital media including: a recording studio, soundstage, isolation booth and foley room, editing suites, animation room, workshop space for set design and classroom space.
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