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In 1996, the state-funded Woodlands Countr...
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In 1996, the state-funded Woodlands Country Primary School in Gillingham, Kent, UK was situated in one of the most socio-economically deprived areas outside the inner cities. Pupil places were under-subscribed: 160 out of a possible 240 capacity. Subjected to years of neglect through Council underinvestment, its underachieving students aged 4 - 11 years were destined to be filtered through into similarly poor secondary schools and a life of mediocrity.
There was no magic wand. It took open minds to see the vision of new head Nic Fiddaman "to get it": commitment from staff, governors and parents, and guts to put children's emotional well-being above government targets and league tables. It also took years of chasing grants, subsidies and outside sponsorship to expand the school and its facilities, for which there were many more disappointments than successes. Every negative response became a springboard to seek another way. Failure was not acceptable, not when the children come first.
Today Woodlands is unrecognisable - consistently listed as one of the best schools in the country and expanded to provide nursery care for pre-school children as well as after-school programs for students. As its renown has grown, so have student numbers, in an area where pupil numbers have been steadily decreasing due to a drop in the birth rate.
The school now supports its pupils and community through subsidised sports facilities and a programme of arts, drama, dance and music - also providing free music lessons, a fully functional theatre and professional football fields.
Breaking the Cycle is not a blueprint for change, nor a manual on how to turn around a failing primary school in Britain, but it can be a tool for inspiring those considering or implementing change in their own school communities.
a video by John and Mark Dickinson
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Once there were thousands of licensed Granny Midwives throughout the South. Now there are none. Who were they? Where did they go? Because of segregation, many Americans knew nothing about natural home birth with experienced Grannies like Margaret Charles Smith who learned from each other and could deal with breech deliveries, multiple births and other situations with no medical instruments or drugs. Miss Margaret's mother tells of saving a one-and-a-half-pound baby by making an incubator out of a cardboard box and hot water bottles.
Miss Margaret successfully attended over 3,500 home births without a single maternal death, worked a farm like a man and triumphed over the advesities of Jim Crow, poverty, lack of education and the slavery of sharecropping. "I've been through the wringer," she says of living in Greene County, Alabama, a Ku Klux Klan stronghold where, according to Ralph Abernathy, "racism was so entrenched that winning the right to vote there was more historic than man's walk on the moon."
a video by Diana Paul
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Stoney says he has dumb luck. His grandfat...
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Stoney says he has dumb luck. His grandfather was the doctor on the island in Ireland where the legendary maker of documentary film, Robert Flaherty, shot his film MAN OF ARAN. So Stoney's film, exploring the effects Flaherty's film had on the island and its people, is digging into his own roots as an individual while simultaneously studying the work of his intellectual mentor as a producer of nonfiction films.
Robert Flaherty's 1934 classic MAN OF ARAN chronicled fishermen's struggle for existence on Ireland's bleak Aran Islands. Stoney revisits the islands and interviews surviving locals about their memories of the original film - and their reactions to making this one. It includes excerpts from the original documentary.
Stoney says, "HOW THE MYTH WAS MADE illustrates what I believe to be a common truth: the filmmaker always leaves his mark on the places and the people he films."
a film by George Stoney, Jim Brown, Paul Barnes
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This documentary traces the development an...
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This documentary traces the development and premiere performance of an avant-garde symphonic work by Southern composer Sorrel Doris Hays. Commissioned by the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Hays' piece is based on the sounds and rhythms of Southern speech and musical traditions. It is a journey into childhood memories via the melodies and rhythms of Southern dialect. Stoney combines analysis of her work with interviews in which Hays discusses her struggle with racism and paternalism of Southern culture.
a film by George Stoney with Sorrel Doris Hays
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Shepherd of the Night Flock is a documentary about a jazz ministry at St. Peter's Lutheran Church at 54th and Lexington in Manhattan which was led by Father John Garcia Gensel. The need for a film began because the church was being relocated by a skyscraper construction project. Gensel had started the Jazz Vespers for those musicians of his growing night ministry who couldn't make it to Sunday morning service after playing late Saturday night gigs. It became the church home for many musicians including Zoot Sims, Billy Strayhorn and Billy Taylor.
The legendary Duke Ellington was a frequent worshiper. He called Pastor Gensel "the shepherd who watches over the night flock" and wrote a song with that title, which is how the film was named. In the film Father Gensel delivers a moving eulogy for the Duke at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Ellington plays at the Jazz Vespers, among a host of legendary musicians including Zoot Sims and Billy Taylor. Billy Strayhorn donated a piano for example. In the film Father Gensel delivers a moving eulogy for the late Duke at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
The film developed over time (shot between 1970-1975) into a nuanced biographical portrait of John Gensel.
a film by George Stoney, Jim Brown, Paul Barnes
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