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PatchWorks
News: Award-winning Bilingual Documentary
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kids become bilingual in an experience that transforms both themselves
and their country.
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Pictures from top: 1)
Filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider with Julian Enis; 2) Durrell
Laury answering questions with his Mom & Ken; 3) Marcia @
Premiere;
4) Ken & Associate Producer, Lorna MacMillan; 5) Ken &
Marcia
with Supervisor Eric Mar; 6) Jessica Dyer. |
PRE-ORDER SPEAKING IN TONGUES AND SAVE 20%
We're
excited to announce that 1st edition chaptered DVDs of SPEAKING IN TONGUES
are for sale now (they will ship by
September 1st).
Community
Groups and Institutions will receive a 20% discount if they place
orders before
August 1, 2009. The home video
version (licensed for personal use only) is available for only
$35.00. Click here to order
now...UPCOMING
SCREENINGS
AWARD WINNING SOLD OUT PREMIERE
A
lively, smart, and timely film about the new globalized world.
--Graham
Leggat, Executive Director, San Francisco
Film Society
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
cleaned
up at its
San Francisco International Film Festival premiere, winning the
celebrated
Audience Award for Best Documentary and selling out 4
shows. Read the reviews...
WATCH THE Q &
A
The
Speaking in Tongues Families of Kelly Wong, Julian Enis, Durrell Laury,
Jason Patiño.
HONORED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS
In May,
the Board of Supervisors for The City of San Francisco
awarded PatchWorks Films the prestigious Certificate of
Honor.
The
text reads:
"In
recognition and appreciation for your film SPEAKING IN TONGUES and the
compelling stories you conveyed of families that chose to place their
children
in immersion schools. Your film promotes bilingualism and recognizes
the
cultural and ethnically diverse world in which our children live. For
this, the
Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco extends
its
highest commendation."
SPEAKING IN TONGUES ENRICHING LIVES
By Jessica Dyer, age 10, and
Margaret Peterson, Jessica's
motherOur family moved to Japan and lived there for three
years.
Our children developed close friends and became fluent in Japanese.
Upon our return our
youngest
daughter,
Jessica, forgot nearly everything she learned.
In
Jessica's words,
"I came home from school, and my Mama
asked me if I wanted to watch SPEAKING IN TONGUES, and I said, 'Sure.'
I had no idea the movie would be so
emotional! By the end of the movie I realized that I can't even speak
to my
best friend Sakura anymore. I
decided I just HAD to learn Japanese again."
And she
did! She
pulled out all her old Japanese books
and re-taught herself Japanese. She has since exchanged email in
Japanese
with Sakura! Thank you, Marcia and Ken, for creating such a moving film
that inspired my daughter to regain her Japanese.
SHARE
YOUR STORY
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 UPCOMING
SCREENINGS
Seattle
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September 20, 2009: Northwest Film Forum
Portland
- Fall 2009
Chicago
- Fall 2009
United Nations Association Film Festival - Fall 2009
CONFERENCES
Two-Way
CABE (July 2009)
National
Network for Early Language Learning (July 2009)
American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (November
2009)
HOST
A LOCAL SCREENING
Bring
a
premiere of SPEAKING IN TONGUES
to your community. It provides an excellent
opportunity to get press for local issues and mobilize advocates to
move
multilingualism forward. We are working on a customized
screening kit with a how-to
guide (expected completion October 2009).Until then check out the
excellent and easy to use ideas in "Host a Screening
Toolkit" produced for the film: MADE IN L.A.
You can
also send our web link (www.speakingintonguesfilm.info)
to your local independent film theater and ask them to program the
film. You
can offer to set up a post-screening panel discussion to motivate your
audience
to support multilingualism. To
find the names of local independent theaters, check out this link on the PBS
website.
GET THE WORD OUT
Please forward this newsletter to your
friends and family. E-mail
us information about others that might be interested in the film:
·
groups that might want to screen the film
·
conferences that might want to screen the film
·
organizations whose members could use the film
JOIN our Facebook Group.
SHARE
YOUR
STORY
Send us an e-mail
sharing your own story. How has being bilingual changed your life? How
has not being bilingual challenged you?
We'll post the best on our website.
DONATE
Make
a tax deductible donation over $50 and receive a preview DVD
now.
Donations over $100 receive the DVD and a signed
poster. We
would also appreciate any donations of frequent flier miles to help us
travel with the film to screenings and conferences around the
country. Please e-mail
us your information. |
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About
Speaking in Tongues
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ABOUT
In
a time where 31 states have passed English Only initiatives, one urban
school district is exploring the provocative notion that speaking a
foreign language can be a national asset. We follow four diverse
students and their families as they encounter the challenges and
delights of becoming fluent in two languages. As we witness their
journey, we see how speaking more than one language changes them, their
families, their communities, and maybe even the world.
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PatchWorks Films
is a San Francisco based production and distribution company. We
specialize in films that explore contemporary social issues through
intimate character stories, and innovative partnerships with the
constituencies working with the issues are films explore. Our
award-winning documentaries have been broadcast worldwide and have
screened at museums, film festivals, schools, universities, and
libraries. SPEAKING IN TONGUES
is
PatchWorks' third feature documentary. |
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