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Two accomplished storytellers share their expertise on using puppets and props to enhance the art of storytelling. Schroeder Cherry uses several types of puppets to tell his educational story about the Underground Railroad, while Karen Quinn-Wisniewski entertains her audience of young children with classic fables and colorful puppets and props. Interviews with each clips from their performances show you how to use puppets to increase your storytelling...
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"So how do you tell stories that stick-- in your own mind and in the minds of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients? That's precisely what you'll learn in The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, an enthralling course that reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell engaging, entertaining, and memorable tales. In 24 lectures, Professor Hannah B. Harvey of East Tennessee State University...
3) Life of Pi
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Based on the bestselling novel by Yann Martel. A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Limited quantities will included bonus DVD version of the film.
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Tales of wonder I and II showcases Native American stories for children, as told in the Native American tradition by acclaimed storyteller and linguist Gregg Howard. Tales of wonder has been used in a curriculum unit developed by the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-cultural Education.
5) A Hard Life
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Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through Turkish domination and successive occupations linked to different wars. This film is exclusively devoted to her life story.
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Marty Bronson raises his son and daughter on his own. He has to sell his homey motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to make Marty's son manager. But, Nottingham pulls down the motel and builds a pricey hotel. Now grown up, Marty's son, Skeeter, works as a janitor and general servant. He still dreams of becoming the manager. When Nottingham announces a brand-new hotel, built on an existing school's property, he makes his future son-in-law, Kendall,...
10) Liyana
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Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.
12) Bedtime stories
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Skeeter, the handyman of a hotel once belonging to his father, agrees to watch his sister's two children and finds his life changed when the stories he tells the kids at bedtime begin to come true.
13) Stories we tell
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A "genre-twisting film by director Sarah Polley, who investigates the elusive truths of her eclectic family of storytellers as she playfully interrogates a cast of characters who each relate their version of the family mythology. Polley reveals the essence of family as she uncovers the secrets buried deep within-- "--Container.
