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Publisher
Cloudstone
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Explores the extraordinary career of one of the world's most celebrated storytellers, who is also the author of 23 books as well as an artist, scholar, folklorist, and teacher. Through archival footage, in-depth interviews, and spellbinding performances, this film illuminates the power of storytelling and shows one woman's courageous journey to communicate heart-to-heart.
Publisher
SIG Summit
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This summit analyzed the state of storytelling today and projected the future landscape of storytelling education for all ages and stages in a variety of institutional and organizational contexts. Summit participants used storytelling as a method of determining gaps and discovering solutions to issues facing National Storytelling Network today.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two accomplished storytellers share their expertise on using puppets and props to enhance the art of storytelling. Schroeder Cherry uses several types of puppets to tell his educational story about the Underground Railroad, while Karen Quinn-Wisniewski entertains her audience of young children with classic fables and colorful puppets and props. Interviews with each clips from their performances show you how to use puppets to increase your storytelling...
8) The fall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In a hospital in 1920's Los Angeles, reality and fantasy blur dangerously as an injured stuntman tells a little girl with a broken arm a fantastical story about five mythical heroes.
10) Stories we tell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
In this inspired, genre-twisting film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets behind a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tales of wonder I and II showcases Native American stories for children, as told in the Native American tradition by acclaimed storyteller and linguist Gregg Howard. Tales of wonder has been used in a curriculum unit developed by the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-cultural Education.
12) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the last survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Big Bird and Snuffy want Maria to read them a bedtime story. Since they have no storybook, they try to go to the library, then Maria decides to read to them from the fairy tales section of the Sesame Street newspaper. The rest of the Muppets act out their versions of well-known fairly tales, with interviews by Kermit the Frog.
15) Bedtime stories
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skeeter, the handyman of a hotel once belonging to his father, agrees to watch his sister's two children and finds his life changed when the stories he tells the kids at bedtime begin to come true.
Series
Publisher
PorchLight Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Lucy, a little girl who lives next to the zoo, slides down the giraffe's neck every night to listen to the stories of the animals; Georgina the giraffe likes to perform for the other animals.
Georgina the giraffe: Georgina shows off to everyone and gets in a "knot" but gets help from a nearby Knot Doctor.
The juicy fruit tree: A very rare tree from Savannah appears and the animals at first dispute, but then find out that without each other they...
Author
Publisher
D. Elliott
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Doug Elliott performs a lively concert of amazing tales, tunes, traditional lore, outrageous personal narratives, and fact stranger than fiction. He flavors it all with regional dialects, lively harmonica songs, and more than a few belly laughs.
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