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Booklist Awards Starred Reviews to Two Titles
Posted by Steve -- on 8/4/2016
BIG VOICE
Follows a challenging year in the life of a determined public high school choir director, demonstrating the transformative value of arts education programs.
"Starred Review. Enlightening…this thoughtful film shares insights on the power of the arts and the work of a personable, dedicated choir director…." - Booklist
THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL
Journeys into the Chernobyl Dead Zone several decades after the nuclear disaster to find a small community of elderly survivors along with scientists and others.
"Starred Review. Captures a land that time forgot and the world has avoided…." - Booklist
The two other Video Project films reviewed in Booklist are:
FLY BY LIGHT
Follows four teenagers for a year as they seek to overcome the violence in their lives by participating in a peace education program.
"Powerful...An inspiring look at challenges facing many inner-city youth...who 'create a new path by connecting to a world outside their neighborhoods’." - Booklist
OYLER: ONE SCHOOL, ONE YEAR
How a "community school" helped turnaround a poverty-stricken neighborhood, part of a growing national movement to help better meet the basic needs of poor children.
"Candid... takes viewers on a personalized 184-day tour of (Oyler School)... a full-time facility that offers daily nutritious meals, health care, and other services." - Booklist
American Psychology Association to Screen two Films
Posted by Steve -- on 8/4/2016
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Two Video Project
films were selected for screening at this week's American Psychology
Association (APA) Annual Convention in Denver — HEALING A SOLDIERS HEART and FREE THE MIND.
Here are the APA's descriptions of the two films in the convention program, and links to order:
This
documentary follows four Vietnam veterans with severe symptoms of PTSD
who go on a courageous journey back to Vietnam to face the emotional
demons that have been haunting them for close to 40 years. This profound
story addresses healing, loss, and the rediscovery of the human soul.
It is about forgiveness and psychospiritual catharsis. As one soldier
stated, “When the pain comes back, our hearts come back.”
Can
your rewire the brain through contemplative neuroscience? An
extraordinary film featuring the pioneering work of Richard Davidson,
PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison, about the potential of mindfulness
meditation in treating preschool children and war veterans in
overcoming effects of trauma.