Teen Screen

Hello 👋 we're #TeenScreen! We offer FREE educational experiences using the power of film. Here's the lowdown: 📽️Students and #TeachersOfTwitter in #Pittsburgh can take a field trip to a local theater 📽️Or you can watch virtually in the classroom from *anywhere* in the world!

Teen Screen is co-hosting a FREE public screening of Counted Out alongside the Grable Foundation on May 21st at 5pm at the Greer Theater. Professor Po-Shen Lo and Ms. Romika Hoffman Hodge will speak after the screening. All are welcome, RSVP at countedoutgrablefound.eventbrite.com

What do teachers say about Teen Screen? Visit filmpittsburgh.org/pages/teen-scr… to see what we're all about!

Did you receive our latest newsletter? Be sure to sign up to be first to receive notices of new offerings and special events! We're offering info to help plan your teaching during #BlackHistoryMonth. mailchi.mp/filmpittsburgh…

📣Check out Teen Screen's January Newsletter where we highlight some of our Holocaust-themed offerings 🎥, including #999TheForgottenGirls, #TheBoyInTheWoods, and #TheCureForHate. Read the entire newsletter here: mailchi.mp/filmpittsburgh….

Our Dec Newsletter hit in-boxes early this week. We highlight our new📽️, #SmallTownUniverse, which explores the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. See the whole Newsletter here:mailchi.mp/filmpittsburgh….

Another successful screening for students at the #3RFF! Groups from #SenecaValley and #Neshannock visited #TheHarrisTheater to see 📽️ #UnBroken and meet director Beth Lane. UnBroken documents Beth's quest to learn about her mother who, w 6 siblings, survived the #Holocaust.

2 screenings of SMALL TOWN UNIVERSE, 1 for the community at @LindsayTheater and 1 for Eliz Forward MS at #TheHarrisTheater. We learned about radio astronomy, the struggle to save the @GreenBankObserv, and a small Appalachian town.

999: The Forgotten Girls, a new Teen Screen📽️, was shared today at #TheLindsayTheater w/ students and teachers from #NorthHillsHS & #CentralValleyHS. Attendees followed personal stories of members of the first transport of young girls to Auschwitz and then participated in a Q&A.

A new month--a new Teen Screen📰! See November highlights here: mailchi.mp/filmpittsburgh…. Also see @TeenScreen_FP offerings during the #3RFF and to learn how YOU can receive free tickets to one of the 3RFF or #PittsburghShorts films!

Last week @TeenScreen_FP and @CWBPgh presented a film about #kindertransports during the Holocaust. Students from 2 schools viewed the 📽️ and participated in a Q&A with film Director Melissa Hacker, and child of survivors Michelle Ultmann. Studying the Holocaust? Contact us.

Weds Nov 20th: Join Teen Screen for a special screening of 'Unbroken' and Q&A with director Beth Lane! School groups attend for free. 🎬 youtube.com/watch?v=_tcLsE…

Teen Screen shared #StillABlackStar with students at The Watson Institute-Friendship Academy. Then filmmaker, @kernkonwiser, Zoomed in to talk about filmmaking, Ghana, e-waste, and its environmental effects. Book a 📽️ and discussion with us!

This month is teacher conference month! Mon-AIU Soc Studies; Fri-PCTELA; next Tues-Eradicate Hate Summit; next Wednesday-Heinz Hx Ctr Ed Open House. Stop by, we'd love to meet you! #TeacherConference #FreeFilmsForMiddleAndHighSchool

We had great day presenting at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit Social Studies Symposium 2024! Congrats to the AIU for an excellent event. If you attended, look forward for more information about Teen Screen coming your way!

Hello 👋 we're #TeenScreen! We offer FREE educational experiences using the power of film. Here's the lowdown: 📽️Students and #TeachersOfTwitter in #Pittsburgh can take a field trip to a local theater 📽️Or you can watch virtually in the classroom from *anywhere* in the world!

Great news! Teen Screen will be offering the new📽️#999-The Forgotten Girls in theater and virtually beginning Sept 1! This is the story of 999 teenage girls who, in Spring 1942, were sent from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz to serve as slaves. More here: filmpittsburgh.org/pages/teen-scr…

It was great to see this group from @SenecaValleyIHS last Spring to see #999TheForgottenGirls at @TheHarrisTheater and introduce them to filmmaker Heather Dune Macadam. #TeachersOfTwitter #FreeFilmsForStudents #TheHolocaust

Why study history? Last May, students at @Avonworthschool grappled with this question as they watched #RepairingTheWorld, a 📽️ about the #TreeOfLifePittsburgh shooting at @LindsayTheater. Discussions with survivors were particularly meaningful.

The @FilmPittsburgh JFilm Festival📽️ is coming up on May 2-12. Teachers, do you want a FREE🎟️ to #UNSPOKEN on May 9, 7pm, at the #OaksTheater in Oakmont? Meet the filmmaker after the show. LMK by commenting below.

Our April Newsletter highlights films for #GenocideAwarenessMonth, including #Holocaust-themed films and our short film program called #Genocide: Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Reconciliation. Read all about them at this link: mailchi.mp/filmpittsburgh…