As a mission-based cinema, Film Streams is committed to presenting new and innovative film opportunities that celebrate the medium while expanding appreciation for it as an art form.

Beginning in 2008, we will offer a variety of educational initiatives for area high school students. Supported with a grant from the Qwest Foundation, our education program will focus on film literacy and critical thinking, with students learning how to interpret films in a cultural context, empathize with characters in ways beneficial to their own personal development, and analyze film as an art form.

These objectives will be realized through two complimentary components: an enrichment program that brings high school students into Film Streams' Ruth Sokolof Theater and introduces them to our programming; and a curriculum guide to be introduced in Omaha-area classrooms in Fall 2008. 

If you’re interested in becoming a teaching artist, helping us develop our curriculum, or bringing Film Streams’ education initiatives into your school, please contact Rachel Jacobson at rachel@filmstreams.org.  

MARTIN SCORSESE:

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”