Beyond the Butterfly: Middle School Girls Speak Out
Award-winning documentary about middle school girls
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$195.00
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Beyond the Butterfly: Middle School Girls Speak Out was filmed by
groups of middle school girls, who were given PBS-compatible video cameras to
document what they are thinking, feeling and doing. The girls speak candidly
about themselves and their experiences. Middle school girls participated from
various ethnic and socioeconomic groups and from large and small cities and
towns and rural areas. They talked about school, family, body image, sexual
harassment, getting good grades, drugs and alcohol, boys, peer pressure and a
myriad of other topics that were important to them. Beyond the Butterfly is
designed to help girls gain an understanding of the forces at work on their
minds and bodies and how they can react to emerge stronger, wiser and more
confident than they were as children. See the Butterfly website for video
clips, the teacher guide, script and other resources. 60 minutes.
"...the mothers most welcomed it as yet
another chance for them...to open conversation about sex, drugs, body image,
etc., etc, that didn't turn the girls off. They have participated in several
groups, some more successful than others and generally saw this as the most
sincere, open, honest, and well-received by the girls of the approaches they'd
tried (that's quite something)."
Eleanor R. Linn, University of Michigan
"The...comments are extremely intelligent, cogent, frank, thoughtful,
and devoid of profanity."
Booklist
"Beyond the Butterfly: Middle School Girls Speak Out is a television
documentary that is a must for viewing by parents, teachers, school counselors
and administrators."
--Doris Rhea Coy, Ph.D., The ASCA Counselor
"I loved the film. It's the best thing out on adolescent girls!
Bravo."
--Mary Pipher, author, Reviving Ophelia
"...you take us behind the scenes so that we experience 'the wonder
years' and 'this so called life,' not from the perspective of television
programmers and their fictional teens, but in the words of the early
adolescent females currently populating the nation's schools. Beyond the
Butterfly offers a compelling chronicle of what it is to b young and female in
the United States."
--Dr. David Considine, Coordinator, Graduate Program in Media
Literacy, Appalachian State University
"Beyond the Butterfly is a thought-provoking, timely program for
kids, parents, those who work with kids, and anyone who has forgotten what
it's like to be a teenager. Highly recommended for both school and public
libraries."
--Video Librarian, March/April 2000
"This fascinating documentary...is the next-best thing to being a fly
on the wall, as middle school girls spill their guts about, like, body image,
sex, eating disorders and other cataclysms of puberty."
--Dean Robbins, Isthmus, January 2000
"In the commentaries provided by the girls, they open windows so
interested others can peek into their experiences, thoughts,
un/comfortabilities, and humor...Using this program as an in-service tool,
interested adults can being to develop a clear picture of girls' daily life
experiences."
--Robert L. K. Richardson, Ph.D., Middle Level Education, University
of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Midwest Emmy Aurora Awards Platinum Best of Show
INTERCOM Gold Plaque
International CINDY Competition Bronze Award
Columbus International Film & Video Festival Bronze Plaque
Parent's Choice Approval Central Education Network Honorable
Mention
What's New Magazine Award Media & Methods Healthy Living Award
National Council on Family Relations Media Awards Honorable
Mention
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