House in the Fields

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Teachers are invited to view the film House in the Fields, join film director and producer Tala Hadid to learn about both the film and its context, and then discuss how it might be used in educational settings. Participants will get free access to view the film before the webinar, plus a viewing guide. The first 30 teachers will also receive a link to show the movie in class sometime in the next year, good for 30 days after activation. House in the Fields is a film that examines the life of an isolated rural Amazigh community in the south- west region of the High Atlas Mountains. The thousand-year history of the Amazigh in Morocco has been, for the most part, recounted, preserved and transmitted by bards and storytellers in oral form among Tamazight speaking pastoral communities. House in the Fields continues this tradition of transmission, in an audiovisual form, in an attempt to faithfully document and present a portrait of a village and community that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years despite being confronted with the rapidly changing sociopolitical realities of the country at large. The film follows the lives of certain villagers, most specifically two teenage sisters, one who must give up school to prepare for her wedding, and the other who dreams of being a lawyer. "(Synopsis from alphaviolet.com). This is part of a series of Title VI National Resource Centers working with Documentary Educational Resources to share documentary films from around the world with K-12 teachers.