Director Marcia Jarmel (in attendance)
SYNOPSIS
In a time where 31 states have passed English Only initiatives, one urban school districts exploring the provocative notion that speaking a foreign language can be a national asset. We follow four diverse students and their families as they encounter the challenges and delights of becoming fluent in two languages. As we witness their journey, we see how speaking more than one language changes them, their families,their communities, and maybe even the world.
FESTIVAL HISTORY
"Speaking in Tongues " held its World Premiere in its hometown at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival, where it was won the Audience Award. After CalDocFest, the film is slated to play at the United Nations Assication Film Festival in Palo Alto, the San Diego Asian-American Film Festival, among others.
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Ken Schneider is producer, editor, and sound recordist for PatchWorks’ films. He is also an accomplished freelance editor whose credits include award-winning documentaries on a broad range of subjects, from art and literature to war and peace, immigration, disability and social justice. Ken co-edited the feature documentary Regret To Inform, winner of the Peabody Award, Indie Spirit Award and Sundance Film Festival Awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography, as well as the IDA Award for most distinctive use of archival footage. Regret also was nominated for an Academy Award and a National Emmy.
Other editing credits include Bolinao 52 about Vietnamese boat refugees; the PBS American Masters specials Orozco: Man of Fire and Ralph Ellison: An American Journey; P.O.V. special Freedom Machines, about the convergence of disability, technology and civil rights; PBS primetime special The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, which aired on Martin Luther King’s birthday and won best historical documentary awards from both the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians; PBS special and Golden Gate award-winner Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town; Frontline's Columbia-Dupont Award winning School Colors, a look at integration and segregation 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education; and Ancestors in the Americas, Part 2: Pioneers in the American West, about the Chinese-American experience.
Ken has collaborated with Nina Wise, the dancer/performance artist; Charlie Varon, the solo theater performer; Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Academy award-winning filmmakers, and Richard Beggs, Academy award-winning sound designer, among others. Ken has consulted on dozens of documentaries, and lectures at San Francisco City College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and New York University.
Marcia Jarmel founded PatchWorks with Ken Schneider in 1994. She has been producing and directing documentaries for over 15 years. Her best-known work is the ITVS-funded Born in the U.S.A., which aired on the PBS series Independent Lens and was hailed as the “best film on childbirth” by the former director of maternal health at the World Health Organization. The documentary has been used to educate hundreds about childbirth options, and to lobby legislators to reform midwifery laws. Eight years after its national broadcast, Born in the U.S.A. continues to engage families, communities and health care professionals.
Marcia’s other films include Collateral Damage, a mother's lament about the human costs of war that screened worldwide in theatres, museums, festivals and schools as part of Underground Zero: Filmmakers Respond to 9/11. Her Return of Sarah’s Daughters examines the allure of Orthodox Judaism to secular young women. The hour-long documentary won a CINE Golden Eagle, National Educational Media Network Gold Apple, and 1st Place in the Jewish Video Competition. It screened on international public television, and at the American Cinematheque, International Documentary Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, Cinequest and numerous other film festivals. Her first film, The F Word: A short video about feminism uses whimsical animation and interviews to foster discussion on this so-called contentious topic. Still in distribution after 15 years with Women Make Movies, The F Word screened on KQED's Living Room Festival, AFI's VideoFest, and the Judy Chicago film series at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Marcia’s additional credits include producing and directing films for the San Francisco World Music Festival, co-editing the Academy-award nominee, For Better or For Worse, and assistant producing the Academy Award nominees Berkeley in the Sixties and Freedom on My Mind. She was a resident at Working Films Content + Intent Doc Institute and has guest lectured at Stanford University San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University, and New York University.
PRESS / MEDIA
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SHOWTIME
SUN. 10/04 at 1:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre
TICKETS
Film
$9.00 General
$8.00 Senior 65+, Student with ID
$7.00 Film Society Members
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CAST AND CREW
Production Company: Patchworks Films
Screenwriter: Ken Schneider, Marcia Jarmel
Producer: Ken Schneider, Marcia Jarmel
Editor: Ken Schneider
Music: Wayne Wallace, Jon Jang, B. Quincy Griffin
Principal Cast: Julian Enis, Durrell Laury, Jason Patiño, Kelly Wong, Dr. Ling-chi Wang
SOURCES
Print Source:
www.patchworksfilms.net |
