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 Please note that on-site registration will be available for $550.

Conference Registration Includes:  

• Workshop Sessions
• Meals (breakfast & lunch provided Thursday and Friday, breakfast provided on Saturday)
• Access to all conference sponsored events
• Exhibit Hall pass
• Networking Reception
• Post conference trip report
• Certificate of Attendance 

ONLY $435 per person!



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We are pleased to offer attendees the opportunity to view various documentary films highlighting relevant topics in the educational field. Some films will offer post-film discussion with filmmakers or representatives from the film company. You do not want to miss the first annual Film Festival!

Thursday, April 26

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. To read more, click here.



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. To read more, click here.


Friday, April 27

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. To read more, click here.



KONY 2012: Invisible Children

Moderators: Hiram Villareal & Elissa O'Dell, Los Angeles Street Team, Invisible Children

 

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.  To read more, click here. 

 

Saturday, April 28

 

Pariah: A Focus Features Film

Moderators: Christina Forzani, Psy.D, Triage & Transition Coordinator, Project Enable Clinic, San Diego, CA; Monique Oglesby, MA, Assistant Director, Heartland Clinic, El Cajon, CA.

 

A world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the contemporary drama Pariah is the feature-length expansion of writer/director Dee Rees' award-winning 2007 short film Pariah. Spike Lee is among the feature's executive producers. At Sundance, cinematographer Bradford Young was honored with the [U.S. Dramatic Competition] Excellence in Cinematography Award. To read more, click here.