Gulf Coast Film Festival Presents: Katrina Through the Eyes and Art of Students

Gulf Coast Film Festival Presents: Katrina Through the Eyes and Art of Students

New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish, and Bay St. Louis/Waveland Students Debut
Personal Films Chronicling Katrina

When: Monday, August 28 - 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: W Hotel
333 Poydras, New Orleans

Who: 500 middle-school students from New Orleans; Plaquemines Parish,
Louisiana; Bay St. Louis/Waveland, Mississippi. Representatives
from local schools, districts, and civic organizations will be
on hand to discuss the impact of these young people's work on
their communities.

What: Students and their families from across the Gulf Coast region to
view an astonishing collection of personal films created by
local young people chronicling their own experiences of
Hurricane Katrina.

The films were created through an innovative summer program
provided by the Mobile Learning Institute -- a digital arts
program sponsored by Nokia and the Pearson Foundation.

Working together in small teams, middle-school students used the
latest computer, video, and mobile phone technologies to script
and create digital films. These narratives combine their
experiences since Hurricane Katrina with their own specific
recommendations for how parts of their cities, towns, and
communities can be preserved or re-created as the region
rebuilds.

Host Lisa Ling, National Geographic Channel correspondent and
representatives from The National Geographic Channel, the
Smithsonian Networks, and the Mobile Learning Institute
officials will describe plans for sharing the films with a
national audience.

Mobile Learning Institute program participants will present The
American Red Cross, Tulane University Libraries, Historic New
Orleans Collection, Bay/Waveland Historical Society, and the
Plaquemines Parish Public Library with a library of collected
films to preserve and share.

Nokia, the Pearson Foundation, and Fujitsu will discuss plans
for continued support along Gulf Coast for the coming school
year.

Contacts: Chantal Boeckman, Nokia, 469-789-9594 Chantal.Boeckman@nokia.com
Stevan Allen, for Pearson, 916 448-1336,
stevan@allenstrategic.com

Kara Kortman, for W Hotels, 504.949-3999 kkortman@deveney.com

PRNewswire -- Aug. 25

Source: Pearson Foundation

Web site: http://www.pearsoned.com/

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