{"id":4,"date":"2007-12-04T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/2007\/12\/04\/kids-first-film-festival-wins-best-non-credit-program-award\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:58:19","slug":"kids-first-film-festival-wins-best-non-credit-program-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/2007\/kids-first-film-festival-wins-best-non-credit-program-award\/","title":{"rendered":"KIDS FIRST! FILM FESTIVAL WINS “BEST NON-CREDIT PROGRAM” AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

KIDS FIRST! FILM FESTIVAL<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span> WINS “BEST NON-CREDIT PROGRAM” AWARD AT THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SUMMER SESSION ADMINISTRATORS CONFERENCE<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>During the recent annual conference of the\u00a0Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA) held in November on Maui, the University of Hawai\u2018i at Manoa Outreach College was honored with the\u00a0“Best Non-Credit Program” award for the\u00a0KIDS FIRST! Film Festival<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0The Western Association of Summer Session Administrators’ (WASSA)\u00a0 mission\u00a0is to exchange information regarding summer session programs and administrative practices, with the annual meeting as the principal forum for the exchange of ideas and information.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, a project of the Coalition for Quality Children\u2019s Media (CQCM), is the largest traveling children\u2019s film festival in the world, providing films that are free of racial, ethnic, gender or religious bias; inappropriate content; and condescension towards children.\u00a0Local organizations and educational institutions plug into the national network to sponsor festivals and related programming tailored to their constituents and communities.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The University of Hawai\u2018i KIDS FIRST! Film Festival made its debut during June and July of 2007, with the second Festival slated for Summer 2008.\u00a0 In honor of Women’s History Month, the University of Hawai\u2018i KIDS FIRST! Film Festival presents the GRLS R GR8! Mini-Film-Fest, celebrating the achievements, challenges and adventures of girls.\u00a0 Age-appropriate films will be screened free of charge on several Sundays at 3pm during March and April in the Art Auditorium on the UH-Manoa campus.\u00a0\u00a0A complete schedule including dates and details of films will be available after the New Year at www.outreach.hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The GRLS R GR8! Mini-Film-Fest is produced by University of Hawai\u2018i at Manoa Outreach College, with assistance from the UHM Women’s Center, Bridge to Hope, Office of the Gender Equity Counselor, and Art Department. Partial funding for the program is provided by the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span> <\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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KIDS FIRST! FILM FESTIVAL WINS “BEST NON-CREDIT PROGRAM” AWARD AT THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SUMMER SESSION ADMINISTRATORS CONFERENCE\u00a0During the recent annual conference of the\u00a0Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA) held in November on Maui, the University of Hawai\u2018i at Manoa Outreach College was honored with the\u00a0“Best Non-Credit Program” award for the\u00a0KIDS FIRST! Film Festival.\u00a0\u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-festivals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}