Discussion guides are:

• Comprehensive background resources for the films, including information about the geography, history and cultural setting, the filmmaker’s statement and biography, and a guide to filmmaking techniques.
• Post-screening resources for teachers, providing structured, theme-based discussion questions to encourage deeper understanding of the characters, stories and cultural context of the films.
• Designed to meet national program standards listed in the package.

Lesson Plans are:

• Performance-based assessment tools that encourage and develop reading, writing, presentation and team collaboration skills. Assessment parameters are specified in the Lesson Plan package.
• Structured on the project-based learning (PBL) model, with warm-up, film screening and post-screening activities driven by the “essential question” in the title.
• Designed to meet the state curriculum and national program standards listed in the package.

Dialogue Text:

• corresponds to the subtitles shown on the screen. Dialogue Text can be valuable for post—screening activities that focus on the details of particular scenes or character development.

Presenter's Guides:

• contain film highlights and talking points about the cultural context.

Subtitle Lists:

• correspond to the subtitles shown on the screen. Subtitle Lists can be valuable for post-screening activities that focus on the details of particular scenes or character development.

Bluescreen:

• an online supplement to The Global Film Initiative’s Education Program. Films presented on Bluescreen are accompanied by innovative educational resources and web-based media, such as film-clips and blog-based discussion, and are part of the Global Lens film series.