We are in the final three days of our Kickstarter campaign to finish TEACHED Vol. II. Please make a pledge today and help us get to the finish line!
We are asking for your help to:
- Go to the TEACHED KICKSTARTER campaign and make a pledge,
- Send a personal email to friends and encourage them to make a pledge,
- Post your support on your Facebook page,
- Make some Twitter magic happen (easy: retweet what we write as TEACHED)
Be sure to include the link to the campaign: kck.st/1CHKgUG and mention that pledges of $500 and up can be tax-deductible (choose "no reward" & email info@teached.org).
Some TEACHED facts you can share:
- The TEACHED film series was created by Kelly Amis, a former South Central, Los Angeles teacher, Fulbright Scholar and winner of Teach for America's Social Innovation Award.
- The first three TEACHED films, called TEACHED Vol. I, candidly examine the school-to-prison pipeline, teacher tenure, and public charter schools. TEACHED Vol. I premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival, won two film festival awards (Amsterdam and Williamsburg), was screened at SXSWEdu, the National Charter School Conference, the Black Alliance for Educational Options Symposium, the ASU-GSV Education Innovation Summit, and 70 more festivals and special events in the U.S. and abroad.
- Since being picked up and streamed on SnagFilms.com about a year ago, TEACHED Vol. I and additional TEACHED online videos have received nearly 400,000 views.
- TEACHED Vol. I was included as a trial exhibit in the historic Vergara v. California State Supreme Court case about teacher tenure and seniority, a case that may reach the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future. It was named as one TakePart's "10 Education Documentaries Not to Miss" and Online Universities "25 Best Movies About Education Ever Made," and also featured in such varied media as USAToday, the Harvard Law Review, the Huffington Post and One Day magazine.
- The three new films, or TEACHED Vol. II, look at students both inside and outside of school to look at what urban minority youth accomplish when given the chance, and the forces that too often prevent black males in particular from fulfilling their potential. The synopses of these new films, Code Oakland, Think of Calvin and Offsides, plus film teasers, are included on the Kickstarter page.
- Questions? Contact us at info@teached.org. Need more background or details? Look at our website: www.teached.org. Now let's make this happen! Three days left and then we can get these films in front of audiences!
