{"id":11540,"date":"2017-11-11T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2017-11-11T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:28:14","slug":"world-premier-of-childrens-village-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/world-premier-of-childrens-village-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premier of Children’s Village Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Filmmaker Marvin Blunte has made an incredible documentary about Moo Baan Dek, The Children’s Village, a very special school\/orphanage in rural Thailand. I have known about it for decades, as it was inspired by Summerhill and runs democratically. The film,\u00a0“6 Weeks to Mothers Day,”\u00a0will have its world\u00a0premier\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0November 16th\u00a0at the\u00a0DOC NYC<\/a>\u00a0film festival in lower Manhattan at the\u00a0IFC Center<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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It was founded 38 years ago by Rajani Dhongchai, known as Mae Aew, or Mother and her husband, Piphop. The film centers around the celebration of Mothers Day 38 years after Mae Aew founded the Village. She will be at the showing and will see the film for trhe first time!<\/div>\n
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It is very skillfully filmed and has many insightful and dramatic scenes. For example one shows two young twins meeting with their birth parents for their first time in memory. \u00a0There are also several scenes with democratic meetings. The documentary is not a public relations piece but shows a variety of real life situations and issues.<\/div>\n
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If you are in the New York area, don’t miss this. Tickets are going very fast\u00a0but here’s a link to get them<\/a>.<\/div>\n
If tickets are sold out please email:\u00a06weekstomothersday@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and let them know you would like to be put on the waiting list. Additional screenings my be added.<\/div>\n
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6 WEEKS TO MOTHER’S DAY\u00a0is also collaborating with\u00a0Google\u00a0Expeditions<\/a>\u00a0to create a virtual reality (VR) field trip, where teachers and students can use\u00a0Google\u00a0Cardboard to be transported to Children’s Village Thailand. This will be the first ever Expedition available in both English and Thai, further solidifying Mother Aew as one of the most progressive minded teachers in the country. Special edition “6 Weeks to Mother’s Day”\u00a0Google\u00a0Cardboards will be handed out to the audience after the DOC NYC screening, and instructions will be posted on the film’s\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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If you are further afield you can look for other places the film will show and you can reach the filmmaker at<\/div>\n
marvinblunte@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n
or follow them on their social media pages here:<\/div>\n
Website:\u00a0www.6weekstomothersday.com<\/a><\/div>\n
Facebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/6weekstomothersday<\/a><\/div>\n
Twitter:\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/6WeekstoMothers<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker Marvin Blunte has made an incredible documentary about Moo Baan Dek, The Children’s Village, a very special school\/orphanage in rural Thailand. I have known about it for decades, as it was inspired by Summerhill and runs democratically. The film,\u00a0“6 Weeks to Mothers Day,”\u00a0will have its world\u00a0premier\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0November 16th\u00a0at the\u00a0DOC NYC\u00a0film festival in lower Manhattan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11542,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions\/11542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}