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SPANISH, FRENCH AND IB EDSMEN ATTEND 47th ANNUAL CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST DOWNTOWN

French and Spanish students and IB filmmakers traveled downtown this week to partake in this year's Cleveland International Film Festival. French students took part in the French Cinema Program before having lunch together from Furahi, a local Congolese restaurant. The Spanish Language Cinema is a part of this year's Cleveland International Film Festival as well and St. Ed's Spanish juniors viewed a series of independent short films about powerful themes like the erasure of native languages, the power of poetry, immigration, and modern technology. "CIFF has created a wonderful program for students throughout Cleveland to not only view these films but to interact with their meanings and subtext, even including a Q&A session with some of the filmmakers. This is a great opportunity for our Spanish students to immerse themselves in the cultures that speak and live in Spanish every day," says Spanish Tutor Waverly Sisson.

St. Ed's IB filmmakers took in the shorts program which provided great opportunity to see samplings of work by filmmakers at different stages of their careers working in vastly different genres and styles. "Our IB film students have now made short films in different production groups ranging from 3 minutes to 15 minutes, and they will learn a lot from getting to see professional filmmakers telling stories in a scaled-down way, just like they have had to do," says Film Department Chair Lydia Munnell. The annual Cleveland International Film Festival always provides Edsmen with the chance to discover the power of film and celebrate diverse cultures, people and experiences that they can apply in the classroom and beyond.