BOOST FILM FESTIVAL
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.
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. (Click here to read more)
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. (Click here to read more)
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. (Click here to read more)
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. (Click here to read more)
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
