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Many students felt that the movie-format provided a very engaging way to experience aspects of another culture that would otherwise be extremely distant from their world. Such global awareness and education is needed as our world becomes more interconnected and such quality educational projects are needed to deepen the exposure and experiences of our youth.”

-          Andrew Werth, 7th grade teacher Albuquerque Academy

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Everyone realizes that, as our country gets more diverse and our world gets smaller, the need for cross-cultural understanding has never been greater. Middle school teachers, facing the daunting task of providing educational experiences that will help prepare their students for this new world, will love Journeys in Film.”

-          Sheldon Hackney, Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

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From working with the Journeys in Film group last spring, I was impressed not only with their global idealism, but their approach to getting children to empathize, to begin to see culture in whole ways. I strongly support a program of this nature because we need better tools for getting into other people’s shoes.”

-          John Egbert, 7th grade History teacher, Albuquerque Academy

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In these troubled times that we live in, it is more imperative than ever to provide programs for our youth that will challenge them to think about such fundamental social values as tolerance, mutual respect, human rights, and understanding of all cultures.”

-          Regina Turner, Director, New Mexico Foundation for Human Rights Project

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Journeys in Film is a brilliantly conceived, systematic and engaging curriculum that cultivates that tolerant impulse and makes it more sophisticated through informed and imaginative engagement with other peoples’ way of life and “pictures of the world”.

-          Richard A. Shweder, Carnegie Scholar and William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor