BOOST Film Festival Strand
The BOOST Film Festival strand offers attendees the opportunity to view educational documentary films highlighting relevant topics in the education field including issue relating to today’s youth. Many of the featured films offer supplemental materials, such as curriculum, to take back and implement at your school or program. When available, the BOOST Film Festival strand also offers the opportunity for post-film discussion with the filmmakers or representatives from the film company.
2012 BOOST Conference Film Festival
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
10:00am-12:00pm
MISS REPRESENTATION
Moderator: Stephanie Armstrong, Founder, Heart of Leadership, San Diego, CA
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation (90 min; TV-14 DL) uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.
In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made great strides in leadership over the past few decades, the United States is still 90th in the world for women in national legislatures, women hold only 3% of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eating behaviors.
Stories from teenage girls and provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics, like Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem build momentum as Miss Representation accumulates startling facts and statistics that will leave the audience shaken and armed with a new perspective.
Middle, High School
Upper-level Administration, Mid-level Administration, Direct Service, Capacity-Building
Strands: Film Festival; Older Youth
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2:45pm-4:45pm
INOCENTE
Moderator: Matt D’Arrigo, CEO, A Reason to Survive (ARTS), San Diego, CA
Inocente is an intensely personal coming of age feature documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past – a past punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse and an endless shuffle, year after year, through the city’s overcrowded homeless shelters and the constant threat of deportation. Told entirely in her words, and incorporating animation of her own design, we come to Inocente’s story as she realizes her life is at a turning point, and for the first time, she decides to take control of her own destiny. Inocente is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America – children.
Middle, High School
Upper-level Administration, Mid-level Administration, Direct Service, Capacity-Building
Strands: Film Festival; Older Youth
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27
10:00am-12:00pm
Mother Nature’s Child
Moderator: Janice Swaisgood, National Coordinator, Family Nature Clubs, Children & Nature Network, San Diego, CA
Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today. The effects of “nature deficit disorder” are now being noted across the country in epidemics of child obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
Mother Nature’s Child asks the questions: Why do children need unstructured time outside? What is the place of risk-taking in healthy child development? How is play a form of learning? Why are teachers resistant to taking students outside? How can city kids connect with nature? What does it mean to educate the ‘whole’ child?
Elementary, Middle, High School
Upper-level Administration, Mid-level Administration, Direct Service, Capacity-Building
Strand: Film Festival
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1:15pm-2:45pm
TEEN TRUTH LIVE FILM FESTIVAL
Moderator: JC Pohl, Co-Creator, Teen Truth Live, Los Angeles, CA
The TEEN TRUTH: FILM FESTIVAL was developed to provide more youth the opportunity to be heard and empower audiences across the nation with their message. Using the same core principals that made TEEN TRUTH successful, the TT: FILM FESTIVAL is focused on furthering the positive TT movement by featuring the artistic voices of the best student filmmakers from across the country.
Open to filmmakers’ aged 12 – 24 this youth focused Festival seeks creative films from several diverse mediums that range in length from thirty-seconds to ten minutes. Whether it’s a documentary, animation, stop-motion or scripted live-action, each featured film will reveal truth, challenge its audience to think differently and inspire positive action.
Come view this year’s student made films and learn how your students can join this powerful movement and inspire creativity in education by hosting a TT: FILM FESTIVAL in your community.
Middle, High School
Upper-level Administration, Mid-level Administration, Direct Service, Capacity-Building
Strand: Film Festival; Older Youth
3:45pm-5:15pm
Indoctrinated: The Grooming of Our Children Into Prostitution
Moderator: Gabriela Baeza, Project Specialist II, San Diego County Office of Education, San Diego, CA
Indoctrinated is a documentary film about child sex trafficking in San Diego County. This film exposes the scope and destructive nature of child sex trafficking and uncovers the tactics used by pimps and gangs to recruit, groom, psychologically coerce and indoctrinate their victims into a life of sexual exploitation and violence - a life that no one would ever choose.
Middle, High School
Upper-level Administration, Mid-level Administration, Direct Service, Capacity-Building
Strands: Film Festival; Older Youth
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28
9:15am-11:15am
TBD
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