Telluride MountainFilm Festival Travels to Singapore American School

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(Newswire.net — March 9, 2015) Singapore, Singapore — The Telluride MountainFilm Festival is coming to Singapore American School March 9 to 11. Over three days, students in all divisions will have the opportunity to experience a collection of “Movies that Matter” in their classrooms and after school. In addition, there will be a community preview night and a private faculty screening. 

Henry Lystad, longtime Festival Director, will speak and preview several great family films.  Examples include Duke and the Buffalo and The Record Breaker. 

Started in 1979, Mountainfilm in Telluride is one of America‘s longest-running film festivals and screens the leading independent documentary films from around the world. Through the years, in and out of trends and fads, the festival has always been best described by one unchanging word: inspiring. Far more than any other adjective, that is how festival audiences describe their experience. 

The festival has created an educational initiative, “Movies that Matter,” dedicated to educating, inspiring, and motivating students about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, adventures worth pursuing, and conversations worth sustaining. SAS teachers have the opportunity to hear Festival Director Henry Lystad and view films that cover topics that include science, culture, adventure, ethics, sport, sustainability, and many others from the vast catalog of MountainFilms. 

 

The Telluride MountainFilm Festival has been made available to SAS through a generous family donation.

 

About Singapore American School

Singapore American School (SAS) is an independent, non-profit, coeducational, college preparatory day school offering an American curriculum with an international perspective for students in preschool through grade 12. SAS has the largest Advanced Placement program outside of the United States, is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in the U.S., and offers the American High School Diploma at the senior level. Established in 1956, the school primarily serves the American and international expatriate communities of Singapore.

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