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Great Films that Change Our World was a collaboration of Balkan Sunflower (BSF) and Kosovo broadcaster RTV21. The first season of 30 films began broadcast on television 26 March 2006 and concluded in December 2006. The 2008 season, from 13 January to 18 May, included 18 films, listed below. The Great Films that Change Our World 2009 program included, 18 films broadcast from 25 January to24 May. The BSF project included: - A broadcast panel discussion following all of the films (except Malcolm X which because it was 3 hours 20 minute length did not allow time also for a panel) dealing with the themes and questions raised by the films. Panelists discussing the themes raised in the films have included University of Prishtina professors, chief judge of the Kosovo supreme court, film directors, educators, doctors, human rights activists, and former Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi. In all more than 100 panelists participated in 2006 and 115 in 2008-2009. - A Human Rights Wall Calendar distributed to classrooms and offices around Kosovo, with important dates in human rights, and the schedule of the films in 2006, and a What Can You do for Kosovo poster (with broadcast information) in 2008-2009. - A Human Rights Teacher's Discussion Guide, distributed to approximately 1000 classrooms in 2006 and again in 2008, including both discussion points for the films, human rights, notes, and quotations for daily reflection. - Programs in secondary schools, to directly involve students, and help raise their questions to the broadcast panels. In 2006 this included broadcasts and discussions in 10 schools. In 2008, a Debate in Our Schools program held impromptu debates in 300 classrooms. The 2006 project was supported by the British Office Pristina (Foreign and Commonwealth Office). The 2008-2009 programs have been sponsored by the Advocacy Training and Resource Center (ATRC) / IREX/USAID, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Department of Youth of the Kosovo Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, with additional support from the United Nations Volunteer program. Participation with the schools was approved with excellent support by Kosovo's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. This advertisement was used on Kosovo television to introduce the Great Films project to the viewers. Teacher's Guide to Great Films English Teacher's Guide to Great Films Albanian Great Films Project Final Evaluation Films Shown In 2006 Included:The American PresidentAngela’s Ashes Billy Elliot Born on the Fourth of July The Boxer Ca Commence Aujourd’hui The Chamber Chicken Run Cry Freedom Elizabeth Gorillas in the Mist The Green Mile In the Name of the Father Lilja 4 Ever Lorenzo’s Oil The Paper To Kill a Mockingbird The Milagro Beanfield War Schindler’s List Shakespeare in Love All the President’s Men The Color Purple Conspiracy The Killing Fields Sometimes in April Stand and Deliver Bowling for Columbine House of Sand and Fog Requiem for a Dream Good-by Lenin The 2008 Season Included:Minority ReportSnow Falling on Cedars It's a Wonderful Life 8 Mile Bob Roberts Missing Terminal The Emperor's Club The River The Mozart and the whale (Crazy in Love) The Last Emperor Darrow Kameradshaft Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Wild America Moulaade Ikiru Transit THE 2009 BROADCAST SCHEDULE INCLUDES:Bend it Like BeckhamLive and Become The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Lives of Others Broken Wings Millions The Queen The Wind that Shakes the Barley Malcolm X Au Revoir Les Enfants Beijing Bicycle The Great Gatsby Proka Gadjo Dilo Hotel Rwanda Akeelah and the Bee Lord of War Primary Colors Great Films that Change Our World is a signature Balkan Sunflowers project. No distributor we worked with knew of any other project anywhere in the world like this. We are ready to advise other NGOs or broadcasters on doing this program in other countries. |
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