1. According to Miss Rogers 
Foreign Language
According to Miss Rogers 

2. Unit 1 - Classroom Unity Freedom Writers

3. Unit 2 - Introduction to Film History
The Jazz Singer
Singing in the Rain
The Wizard of Oz
The Artist

4. The Language of Film - “Script”
Unit 3 - Screenwriting
The Language of Film - “Script”
Review Memory Aide

5. Unit 4 - Cinematography Capturing Images on Film Review Memory Aide

6. Unit 5 – Film Editing Pieceing together “takes” to create emotion

7. Unit 6 Best Foreign Language Film

8. Test Question – Foreign Language Film Definition
Films produced outside the United States with a non-English dialogue track.

9. Unit Objectives
To enhance student interest in and knowledge about the motion picture development and production process
2. To encourage students to use critical thinking as they experience watching a foreign language film and assess how the “langauge barrier” affects their process of understanding and/or connecting with the motion picture.
3. To engage students in an exploration of film as an art form and a medium of communication
4. To help students become more visually literate (to be able to
interpret and make meaning from information presented in the
form of an image).

10. The following films have won Academy Awards for best foreign language film:

11. Life is Beautiful (1997)

12. The Salesman (2016)

13. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)

14. Best Foreign Language Film Facts The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.

15. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929, there was no separate category for foreign language films.
Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States.
These Awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year.
During the Academy Awards held in the Best Foreign Language Film Award was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then.

16. Who takes home the Oscar
Who takes home the Oscar? Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film Award is not presented to a specific individual. It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.

17. Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award have been given almost exclusively to European films. Out of the 68 Awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films: 56 have gone to European films 5 to Asian films 3 to African films 3 to films from the Americas (different language). The most awarded foreign country is Italy, with 14 Oscar awards won, 3 Special Awards and 31 nominations, while France being the foreign country with the largest number of Oscar nominations (39) and Israel being the foreign country with the largest number of nominations, (10), without winning an award. Portugal has the largest number of submissions without a nomination.

18. Group Discussion – verbal proficency credit
What foreign language film have you’ve watched if any?
What topics, nationalities or languages would interest you?
What are you most nervous about in preparation for watching a foreign language film? Why?
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