Imagine a School ... Summerhill
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40 years old
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Last Login: 1/16/2009
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Imagine a School ... Summerhill's Film Bio
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| Website | reflectionmedia.com | | Influences | Albert Lamb, Eqward L. Deci, A.S. Neill | | Directors | William Tyler Smith
Executive Producers: William Tyler Smith, J.D. Hoxter | | Festivals | Cinequest, Voz Audience On-Line |
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Hometown: | Leiston, England | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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ABOUT SUMMERHILL SCHOOL:
Founded in 1927 educator A.S. Neill, Summerhill School is the world's oldest and most influential democratic free school. Neill began his teaching career in Scotland beside his father but soon felt that traditional teaching methods were too stifling for the children. He founded Summerhill School as a free school with non-compulsory lessons in the belief that if you nourish a child's emotions, his enriched emotional life will naturally inspire him to learn. At Summerhill, the children are free to make their own decisions: whether to attend lessons, climb a tree, swim in the pool or read a book all day, as long as their actions don't interfere with anyone else's life. This simple rule of freedom versus license is the cornerstone of the Summerhill community. The battle between the government and the school portrayed in Imagine a School...Summerhill is indicative of the struggles raging throughout educational systems around the world. If conventional educators ask how Summerhill prepares its students for the harsh realities of the real world, the Summerhill community would ask the more crucial question: Is the purpose of education to train children to passively conform to an inhumane world, or is it to give them the tools to better shape society to the needs of humanity? (read more on the Summerhill Press Kit)
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ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY: IMAGINE A SCHOOL...SUMMERHILL:
Imagine a School...Summerhill by director William Tyler Smith (The Third Mind), was filmed in England over a period of seven years. The feature length documentary follows the dramatic story of England's only free school, as the students, staff and a few formidable barristers take on OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) and Tony Blair's Labor Government to fight for its existence. Fashioned from superb documentary filmmaking and 25 hours of footage, Imagine a School...Summerhill is an often moving, compelling and sometimes provocative look at one of the most dramatic events in the history of the 87-year-old Summerhill School. The filmmakers handed over to 11-year-old students three camcorders, to be shared amongst the community, with the instructions: here are the cameras--now shoot. At first the students didn't even know how to work the equipment. In time they were documenting their daily lives, capturing the life of Summerhill from an unfiltered and authentic child's point of view. The filmmakers filmed and interviewed students, staff and alumni, chronicling the chain of circumstances that ended in a most unexpected turn of events: the students prevailed, saved their school, and learned a valuable first-hand lesson in democracy. (read more on the Summerhill Press Kit)
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ABOUT DIRECTOR WILLIAM TYLER SMITH:
William Tyler Smith is an international award-winning writer/director, producer and photographer, who has worked on both documentary and narrative features in film and TV. Smith directed Kiss Me Again, which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival as part of the New York Feature Film Competition and starred Jeremy London (Mallrats, Party of Five), Darrel Hammond (SNL), Elisa Donovan (Clueless) and Katheryn Winnick (Failure to Launch). His short films, Lloyd, Elise & Jennifer and New York. Interior-Night have been widely screened across the U.S. and abroad. After seeing Interior-Night Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek called Smith “extremely talented”, which led to Smith’s first feature documentary The Third Mind, about the artistic fusion between Manzarek and beat poet, Michael McClure. The Third Mind had its successful international premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and was broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Smith has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards such as the UCLA Lew Wasserman Fellowship. Smith has taught filmmaking at UCLA and currently teaches directing at the New York Film Academy. With cinematographer Julian Hoxtner, Smith has formed a production company 418 Films, Ltd. (read more on the Summerhill Press Kit)
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