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Description
Engaging young people in a classroom environment is a highly effective way to reach them where they live and learn and to provide an educational context for issue-driven films. Join members of the SFFS Education team, Bay Area educators, producer Jonathan Duffy (Hellion) and filmmaker Marcia Jarmel (Havana Curveball) for an in-depth discussion of how and why to get films into schools. Using the Film Society’s new online platform FilmEd., we will explore some of the resources and strategies available to make educational outreach possible and productive.
Marcia Jarmel has been producing and directing documentaries for PatchWorks Films for the past 20 years. She distributes and runs engagement campaigns for PatchWorks’ and serves as a consulting producer and an engagement and outreach consultant for social issue documentary films. She was a resident at Working Films Content + Intent Doc Institute at Mass MoCA, the San Francisco Film Society’s Film House, and the Fledgling Fund’s Reel Education and Reel Engagement, and twice a BAVC MediaMaker. Jarmel has lectured across the country at conferences, workshops, and universities, including Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and NYU. She is an IFP Mentor and an outreach and engagement consultant for Working Films (www.workingfilms.org). Jarmel co-founded PatchWorks with husband and collaborator, Ken Schneider.
Jonathan Duffy is a Bay Area filmmaker. He and producing partner Kelly Williams most recently produced Kat Candler’s 2014 Sundance Film Festival selection Hellion starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis. Hellion is a recipient of a San Francisco Film Society/ Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant. Together He and williams also produced the award winning film Pit Stop in tandem with writer/director Yen Tan. Pit Stop premiered at Sundance in 2013 and was nominated for the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Award.
In 2013, Duffy was selected to be a participating filmmaker in the immensely successful A2E Direct Distribution Lab hosted by The San Francisco Film Society. Additionally, Duffy co-founded Greenling.com, an award winning organic food delivery business in Texas and is a graduate from the Radio, Television and Film program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Andy Moore graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in Visual Arts and Communications and moved to San Francisco to work on Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now as a sound mixing technician. His first media distribution job was at Canyon Cinema, the venerable experimental film distribution co-op. Since then Andy has spent most of the time working in a marketing/sales capacity with several nonprofit media arts organizations including Film Arts Foundation and Frameline, where he was Educational Distribution Manager. Now Andy helps independent filmmakers with self (direct) distribution in the educational and home video markets. Andy also produces an audio podcast featuring interviews with filmmakers, writers, artists and other interesting people, found at www.andystreasuretrove.com.