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Film is a powerful educational tool. Not just to keep children still or to introduce media studies topics, but to bring alive subjects that can seem very remote from today's world.
The Big Picture Theater & Café believes in the value of the cinematic experience and to continue its effort to provoke critical thinking, start conversation, and encourage action through film.
Big Picture has tremendous resources of films that cover a wide range of curriculum areas such as environmental studies, social studies, literature in film, world history, religion, and political science. In working with the MountainTop Film Festival, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and other organizations we have the ability to offer a vast library of films and materials.
We offer an opportunity for schools and other educational institutions to organize screenings, Q&As and use related curriculum guides.
Our vision is to ensure that young people in Vermont have the opportunity to learn about film in all its richness and creative possibilities
Film and Literature
Film engages children in a unique and powerful way. Stories, whether written in books, narrated orally or told in film, are usually more than entertainment alone. They have different purposes and underlying messages, providing knowledge about worlds and subjects that we may never have the opportunity to experience for ourselves. They can also provide us with the chance to reflect on our own lives.
Film and Citizenship
A program of study with so many areas of importance and interest to address, and so many abstract notions to make concrete, can be greatly enhanced through the use of film. The combination of moving image and sound in a feature film is a familiar format for most students and one that can help to contextualize issues that may be difficult to study in isolation be it the environment, social justice, or community building.
Film and Literacy
We believe an understanding of film is essential to literacy in the 21st century. It encourages learning, critical understanding, debate and conversation about film and the moving image across a wide range of issues, and gives young people a vehicle for their own creativity.
Film and History
Students of history must learn how to read and interpret sources, developing the skills to identify, decode and take a critical approach to the evidence they encounter. In the same way, history students must consider closely the construction process not just of film but of the history that it represents.
For more information please email Claudia Becker or call: 802.496.8994 |
