WMM News | THE LEARNING Selected for Video Librarian's 2012 "Best Documentaries" List

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Hi All,

 

I am writing from Women Make Movies, the non-profit distributor of films by and about women, to let you know about our **great news**. WMM Release THE LEARNING has been chosen as one of Video Librarian's Best Documentaries of 2012. <http://www.videolibrarian.com/bestof2012.html>

 

Video Librarian is the video review magazine for public, school, academic, and special libraries, as well as video fans who are interested in a wider variety of titles than what's found in the average video store. Written by staff, librarians, teachers, and film critics, Video Librarian offers over 225 critical reviews per issue, alerting readers to upcoming new releases of special-interest, documentary, and video movie titles. In addition, we inform our subscribers of video bargains (and free videos) and track technological trends.

 

To celebrate this great news, WMM are offering 20% off this title! I am posting more info below on THE LEARNING and this limited special offer. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, and thanks as always for supporting independent women filmmakers!

 

THE LEARNING <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c813.shtml>

One hundred years ago, American teachers established the English-speaking public school system of the Philippines. Now, in a striking turnabout, American schools are recruiting Filipino teachers. THE LEARNING, from award-winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA), is the story of four Filipina women who reluctantly leave their families and schools to teach in Baltimore. With their increased salaries, they hope to transform their families' lives back in their impoverished country. This absorbing, beautifully crafted film follows these teachers as they take their place on the frontline of the No Child Left Behind Act. Across the school year's changing seasons, the film chronicles the sacrifices they make as they try to maintain a long-distance relationship with their children and families, and begin a new one with the mostly African-American students whose schooling is now entrusted to them. Their story is intensely personal, as each woman deals with the implications of her decision to come to the US, and fundamentally public, as they become part of the machinery of American education reform policy. 

 

View the trailer here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIXnDBoYFqM>

Purchase the film here <http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c813.shtml>

 

To take advantage of this special discount, go to www.wmm.com, add THE LEARNING to your cart, and enter promo code LEARNLS13. For questions, please email orders at wmm.com or call 212.925.0606 x360. Offer expires 2/28/2013. Certain restrictions apply.

 

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Liane Costello

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WMM has three films at Sundance this year! New WMM release SALMA, by renowned filmmaker Kim Longinotto, has its world premiere in World Docs competition; two films from the Production Assistance Program will also premiere in the US Docs competition: AFTER TILLER by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson and GIDEON'S ARMY by Dawn Porter.

 

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