Call
for short films! (French-, Spanish-, and Italian-language)
Vista
Higher Learning, Inc. is an educational publishing company based in
Boston,
MA in the
United States.
We publish foreign language (French, Spanish, and Italian) textbooks for use in
the American and Canadian college and high school markets. A key feature of our
programs is the inclusion of short films as learning tools; they serve to
showcase the culture of different countries and communities and to encourage
students to use the language that they have learned. We first had success with
this concept in Spanish and have since repeated that success in French. We are
currently working on our first project in Italian.
We are constantly looking for
short films for new programs and for revisions to existing programs. If you
have short films that you would like to submit for consideration, we would love
the opportunity to see them.
Here are some basic criteria:
1. All films must have
dialogue.
2. All films must be in
French, Italian or Spanish. No regional dialects, but regional accents are
fine.
3. All films should be no
longer than approximately 30 minutes, with some flexibility.
If a film is selected for use
in one of our programs, we will be in contact with the copyright holders to negotiate
the conditions of use and to sign a contract.
To
give an idea of the type of films that we are looking for, some of the works
that we have featured in our French text are the following:
J’attendrai le suivant…
by
Philippe Orreindy,
Émilie Muller by Yvon Marciano,
La révolution des
crabes by Arthur de Pins,
De l’autre côté by Nassim Amaouche, and
L’homme
qui plantait des arbres by Frédéric Back.
Here
are some of the titles that have appeared in our Spanish texts:
El ojo en la nuca
by
Rodrigo Plá,
Éramos pocos by Borja Cobeaga,
Viaje a Marte by Juan
Pablo Zaramella, and
Diez minutos by Alberto Ruiz Rojo.
Films submitted should
preferably be on DVD, in NTSC format, and with English subtitles. If this is
not possible, PAL version and films without subtitles will be accepted. (VHS
can be accepted if absolutely necessary.)
Please
send all submissions to:
Eugenia Corbo - Film
Research
Vista
Higher Learning, Inc.
31 Saint James Ave., Suite 1005
Boston, MA 02116
USA
Email: film@vistahigherlearning.com
Thank you!
Vista
Higher Learning Editorial
Team
