NEWS RELEASE -- Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" screened at Lincoln High School

Reporters and editors: Here's a great opportunity for the students at
Lincoln High School. For questions, please contact the folks at Big
Picture Instructional Design, listed below.

Jack Brandais | Communications Department | San Diego Unified School
District | (619) 725-5570 (Desk) | (619) 607-0477 (Cell)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kimberly Birbrower or Lucky Youngblood, Big Picture Instructional
Design, kim@bigpictureinstructional.com,
lucky@bigpictureinstructional.com, 818-501-3378


STEVEN SPIELBERG¹S LINCOLN SCREENED AT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL

The two-time Academy Award® winning film will be gifted for school use



Los Angeles, CA and San Diego, CA­ April 9, 2013 ­ Participant Media,
working together with Big Picture Instructional Design, has selected local
Lincoln High School as one of only 15 high schools from around the country
to receive an award as part of their national Stand Tall: Live Like
Lincoln High School Screening Campaign.


Chad Boettcher, Executive Vice President of Social Action and Advocacy at
Participant Media, said, "Prior to the film's release, we engaged Penn
Schoen Berland to conduct a research study to help inform the focus of our
Social Action campaign for Lincoln. Among the findings of the study was
that more than half of Americans think it's important to learn about
Lincoln, but two thirds say they know little to nothing about him, which
clearly indicated the need to remind citizens about the 16th President's
accomplishments."


As a result, this unique high school screening campaign, ³Stand Tall: Live
Like Lincoln,² is designed to use the film to spark educational
conversations on the film's themes of leadership, civic engagement and
public service. Discussions will be facilitated using Disney's
distributed curricula as well as a series of standards-based extension
activities and discussion prompts that were crafted by Big Picture
Instructional Design. Throughout the month of April, the film will be
screened at 15 different high schools in 15 different states across the
country. In addition to receiving their own copy of the film and its
accompanying collateral materials, all the schools will receive a package
of brand new audio-visual equipment.


Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis
in ³Lincoln,² a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President¹s
tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the
strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end
the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and
fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment
will change the fate of generations to come. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis,
Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal
Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln is produced by Steven Spielberg and
Kathleen Kennedy, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, based in part on the
book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris
Kearns Goodwin.


Participant Media (www.participantmedia.com
<http://www.participantmedia.com/>) is an entertainment company that
focuses on documentary and non-documentary feature films, television,
publishing and digital content about the real issues that shape our lives.
For each of its projects, Participant creates social action and advocacy
programs to transform the impact of the media experience into individual
and community action. Participant¹s online Social Action Network is
TakePart (takepart.com <http://takepart.com/>). Founded by Jeff Skoll in
2004, Jim Berk serves as CEO. Participant's films include The Kite Runner,
Charlie Wilson's War, An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for "Superman,² Fair
Game, The Help, Contagion, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Lincoln,
Promised Land and No.


Big Picture Instructional Design (www.bigpictureinstructional.com
<http://www.bigpictureinstructional.com>) gets all the stakeholders in the
educational space talking about ‹ and watching ‹ movies. As former
classroom educators with extensive experience in nonprofit work,
educational administration, and media literacy, BPID increases the reach
and impact of issue-driven films, television projects, and documentaries
by creating custom-designed campaigns and collateral materials that always
put the film at the forefront. Projects include The Soloist, The
Conspirator, ESCAPE FIRE, and Lincoln.


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