Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to create observant critical thinkers and creative film-makers through a film studies program.  The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Shane Lawrence of Edmonton, Alberta.

In our conversation we discuss:

1️⃣ How students grow as critical viewers and thinkers over five years of film studies

2️⃣ Choosing the right films to show (and some horror stories of what happens when you don’t!)

3️⃣ Equipping (literally and figuratively) students to make their own films

Films mentioned:

• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

• Hero (2002)

• Passchendaele (2008)

• A Town Called Panic (2009)

• The Secret of Kells (2009)

How to follow Shane:

• Instagram

• Twitter

• Website

• Email: theedpodcast@gmail.com

Also: I was a guest on Shane’s podcast, the Ed Podcast, which you can listen to here!