Dual coding involves using verbal and visual cues to help develop your learning and recall. So if you like two-for-one offers, this one’s for you. Research shows it improves understanding and creates stronger memories, so that’s a bargain. And combining it with retrieval practice…
In August 1991, the Soviet Empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible; its power had towered over the world for almost a century. A bloodless economy. Reforms too late to avoid bankruptcy. An abortive coup d'état, power changing hands: a few days of symbolic significance…
Quando l'arte si diffonde nella foresta (Quand l'art sème en forêt) Un film di Olivier Comte (52 min. / 2022 / Sottotitoli italiani) Disponible en DVD : apres-production.com/portfolio_page/dvd-quand-l-art-seme-en-foret/ Disponible en français : https://vimeo.com/ondemand/quandlartsemeenforet…
En août 1991, l’Empire soviétique s’est effondré. Pourtant, ce colosse paraissait indestructible ; sa puissance avait surplombé le monde pendant près d’un siècle Une économie exsangue. Des réformes trop tardives incapables…
This short film shows you how to use retrieval practice to improve your understanding, develop your recall to identify gaps in your knowledge. While most study time is spent trying to get knowledge into your brain, then out again when exams roll around, retrieval practice helps to get it in and…
SILVER HORN for the Director of the Best Medium-Length Documentary – Krakow International Film Festival Special Mention – Budapest International Documentary Film Festival Audience Award – CinéDOC, Tbilisi, Georgia Tova, who is paralyzed due to muscular dystrophy, specializes…
Krakow International Film Festival, Poland Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina Best Feature Film – Sole Luna Treviso Doc Film Festival Two girls meet online. Samar (12), whose mother is an Israeli Arab and father is a Palestinian from the West Bank, lives in Lod, a mixed…
HotDocs Film Festival Zagreb Film Festival, Special Mention – Mediteranean Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina During the 60’s and 70’s thousands of Israelis were living in Teheran, enjoying a special relationship with the Shah and his dictatorial rule. Protected by the large…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day road trip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of…
When seminal documentarian Ed Pincus, considered the father of first person non-fiction film, is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he and collaborator Lucia Small team up to make one last film, much to the chagrin of Jane, Ed’s wife of 50 years. Told from two filmmakers’ points of view,…
When estranged father, dreamer, and visionary architect Glen Howard Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers instead with a provocative film about his precarious career and thorny private life. At 31, Glen Small, founder and faculty member of the internationally acclaimed…
Bilingual and bicultural, Hamid Naficy is the main character in this documentary on the mixed blessings of the state of exile that he has likened to an elevator that runs between “two cultural poles, two memories, two lives.” He’s a member of the Iranian generation that lived through…
