Fwd: Approved CPSD flyer
Lissa Galluccio
From: Ellen Gitelman <egit...@belmontworldfilm.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 5:16 PM
Subject: Approved CPSD flyer
To: <lgall...@cpsd.us>
Dear Lissa,
The CPSD superintendent has approved the attached electronic
flyer about Belmont World Film's Family Festival, which takes
place in Cambridge, Arlington, and Belmont from January 17-20, and
supports the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in both English
and foreign language.
Although films are for people of any age, they are geared mainly to children age 2-12 and their families. Films are in English and multiples languages with subtitles (read aloud through headphones for young and struggling readers). This year's festival features films and stories from ten different countries (the US included), many based on international beloved children's books. Since it's Martin Luther King Day weekend, there's also a program of short films on Monday in tribute to his life, legacy, and contemporaries. Best of all: the festival trailer was produced by students in Cambridge's Media Arts Program!
Festival highlights include:
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show Storytime: A live, audience participatory puppet show and story time featuring two Eric Carle stories followed by a photo opportunity with the caterpillar puppet (age 2-6)
- Master Animator Cinzia Angelini, TEDx speaker and lead story artist on Abominable, The Minions Movie, Despicable Me 3, Spider-Man 2, and more, will conduct a workshop on drawing the Minions character and another on storyboarding for animated films, and will participate in a Q&A after two of her films (Age 5+)
- Hacker (East Coast Premiere): After his mother, a scientist working on a secret project, disappears under mysterious circumstances, the orphaned boy, an expert computer hacker, discovers that she may still be alive (age 9+).
- Jacob,
Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (North American Premiere): Will
an imaginative boy, his know-it-all cousin, and a pack of
talking dogs save their romantic neighborhood in Riga, Latvia
from unwelcome change? (Age 5+)
- Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet (US Premiere). What do you get when you cross the heartwarming encounters in WALL-E with the rich and colorful animation of Fantasia? Terra Willy, a masterpiece of animation from FranceQq (Age 5+)!
- Amazing
& Adorable: Short Films about Animals from the Francophone
World: Top animators in France, Belgium, and Switzerland
have created adorable and colorful short films with subjects
such as friendship, acceptance, and perseverance (Age 5+).
- Arctic
Camels, (North American Premiere): Nine-year-old Torarin
and his sister are over the moon when their parents bring home
two baby camels to live with them in the northernmost city in
the world, but they must travel to Mongolia to find someone to
train them (Age 9+).
Thank you in advance for sharing the information with your students and their parents. If you would like print copies or an electronic version of the full color brochure to distribute, I will be happy to drop some buy or email one to you. In the meantime, please contact me if you have any questions, or if you'd like to organize a trip for your school with discounted tickets.
Ellen