Tag Archive: Media Education

New to the Burns: FAQ

By JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré New to the JBFC? Welcome! Whether you’ve just visited us for the first time or are considering stopping by in the near future, we hope the below Q&A will help you get to know “the Burns.” So, you guys are a movie theater? Well no, not exactly. Sure, [...]


{High School Student Critic Review: Shea} - The Breadwinner

By Shea Stevenson, High School Student Critic The Breadwinner is a 2017 animated film about Parvana, a young girl in Taliban controlled Afghanistan whose father is unjustly arrested, so she must dress as a boy to support her family while they try to find and save her father from prison. The film is directed by [...]


{High School Student Critic Review} - The Breadwinner

By Caleb Feinstein, High School Student Critic The Breadwinner, directed by Nora Twomey, tells the interesting story of Parvana and her life in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Living in poverty, Parvana and her injured father frequent the market to sell what little they have. Despite their living conditions, the family is comforted by the vivid stories told [...]


Summer @ the Lab: A Sense of Adventure

By Darrel Swann, Faculty After getting his BA at Boston College, Darrel studied screenwriting at New York Film Academy. He has been working at the Jacob Burns Film Center since 2009. Our film and media camp at the Media Arts Lab offers a wide variety of activities and often the child who loves to act isn’t [...]


JBFC Travels to New Orleans

On December 3, JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas, Director of Education Emily Keating, and Senior Faculty Member Aaron Mace traveled to New Orleans for an Image, Sound, and Story professional development workshop with three ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy schools, part of the national Turnaround Arts initiative. All of the schools participating in this workshop are [...]


JBFC Goes to the White House

Jacob Burns Film Center Attends the March on Washington Film Festival’s Student & Emerging Film Competition Awards Ceremony at the White House Created Equal Curriculum Recognized for the Powerful Role of Media in the Civil Rights Story The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is pleased to announce it will attend the March on Washington Film Festival’s [...]


15 Years of JBFC Education

By Emily Keating, JBFC Director of Education One of the most astonishing ways to reflect upon the last 15 years is to consider how our interaction with visual media has exploded. We understood, even in 2001, that the access to production and distribution of images was changing how we interact with one another. Yet who [...]


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