Great Hall Screenings
Monday, May 16, 2011
The Secret
Screening: 4:00 to 5:31 p.m.
Discussion: 5:31 to 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Tuesdays with Morrie
Screening: 1:00 to 2:45 p.m.
Discussion: 2:45 to 3:15 p.m.
Accepted
Screening: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Discussion: 5:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Stand
and Deliver
Screening: 5:30 to 7:15 p.m.
Discussion: 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Last Lecture
Screening: 2:30 to 3:50 p.m.
Discussion 3:50 to 4:20 p.m.
Steve Jobs Commencement
Speech
Screening: 4:30 to 4:45 p.m.
Discussion 4:45 to 5:15 p.m.
Student
Awards & Wrap-Party
Immediately following.
Previous Festivals
Contact
Email:pentonjk@piercecollege.eduPhone:(310) 999-9533
2011 FILM FESTIVAL May 16-19 2011 — “Student Empowerment”
The Secret
Interviews with leading authors, philosophers, scientists, with an in-depth discussion of the Law of Attraction. The audience is shown how they can learn and use 'The Secret' in their everyday lives. |
Tuesdays with Morrie
Highly acclaimed episode of Nightline with Koppel's
1995 interviews with retired Brandeis University
sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, more commonly known
as Lou Gehrig's disease). For this broadcast, Koppel
interviewed sports journalist Mitch Albom, who had been
a student of Schwartz. Albom talked about how the
Nightline interviews led and inspired him into
contacting Schwartz personally, and then visiting him
weekly. These visits became the basis for the popular
book Tuesdays with Morrie, chronicling lessons about
life learned from Schwartz. |
Accepted
Accepted is a 2006 comedy film centered on a group of would-be college freshmen who, after being rejected from all the colleges and universities to which they had applied, proceed to create their own "college". |
Stand and Deliver
This inspirational movie is about Jaime Escalante, a
dedicated mathematics teacher. Convinced that his
dropout prone students have potential, he adopts
unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang
members and no-hopers into some of the country's top
algebra and calculus students. |
The Last Lecture
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (also referred to as "The Last Lecture") was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007 that received a large amount of media coverage, and was the base for The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow. Pausch had been diagnosed with a terminal pancreatic cancer on September 19, 2006, and had had an unsuccessful pancreaticoduodenectomy procedure performed to try to stop the growth of the cancer the same day. His doctors later told him that he had only three to six months of good health left. |
Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address
This is a commencement address given by Apple founder Steve Jobs at Stanford University in 2005. In this highly motivational and touching speech, Steve recounts three personal stories in which he advocates following your heart and doing what you love. |
Documentary
Feature 
Ted
Koppell Interview with Morrie Schwartz on Nightline ABC;
Narrative
Feature 
Narrative
Feature 
Really
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Steve
Jobs’ Commencement Address at Stanford University