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I have forwarded your name and request
to Lorri McGinnis who is our
Box Office Manager. If you call her tomorrow
or Wednesday the
festival schedule should be set by then. Her
number is 206-568-8544.
Here are the two blurbs on Manolito.
Short Blurb:
Based on a popular Spanish comic strip, this
comedy adventure follows
little Manolito,who plans to join his truck-driving
dad on a road
trip but accidently gets on the wrong truck.
The plucky, pudgy,
rather disaster-prone boy can't seem to get into
enough trouble in
this hilarious story that dissects, misinterprets,
and throws a
monkey-wrench into the odd ways of adults as
seen through a child's
eyes.
Longer Text:
Miguel Albaladejo's second film crosses the lines
between philosophy
and comedy through the viewpoint of Manolito,
a bespectacled,
overweight ten-year-old kid who is king of the
matter-of-fact. The
story takes place when the smell of summer is
in the air. Manolito is
expecting great things, maybe even a trip to
the beach. Like many
poor kids in Madrid, he's never seen the sea.
But problems at
school, his failure in mathematics, and lack
of money keeps his
family home for the summer. He lives with his
ailing granddad, his
mother Catalina (played by Ariana Ozores, who
brings to life the
classic Spanish combination of maternal protectiveness
and hysteria)
and his brother, "The Imbecile." His father is
a truck driver and
spends a lot of time on the road. Manolito is
relentless with his
burning questions, observations, and presumptions.
He's constantly
putting his foot in his mouth, saying the wrong
things at the wrong
times. He calls these awkward moments, "great
moments of atmospheric
tension" which mostly occur around adults. One
day his father offers
to take him on his truck route and unexpectedly
Manolito ends up at
the beach. Manolito takes us through the thin
line of familial love
and insecurity with a dense and wonderfully funny
voice-over, a
constant barrage of commentary and observation.
He bares his soul,
telling us of the trials and tribulations of
a working class family
without cliche or being cutesy. He shows a kind
of kid abandon free
of the complicating shades of adult perception.
*Manolito Four-Eyes
is based on the best selling children's novel
of Elvira Lindo and
become one of Spain's box office hits in 1999.
Winner of the Special
Mention by the Jury, Berlin Film Festival 2000.
Deborah Moulton
Promotions Manager
Cinema Seattle/2000 Seattle International Film
Festival
911 Pine St., 6th Floor
Seattle, WA 98101
Deborah@seattlefilm.com
Fax: 206.264.7919
Phone: 206.405.1840
II. NATIONAL NSE WINNER AT SHORECREST
National Winners
I am very pleased to report that among the national
winners, we had one
student from Washington State who came in first
place which she shared
with 5 other students from other states. Her
name is BETSY STOREY, her
score was 56, category level 4 Outside Experience,
her teacher is
ROBERTO DEL VALLE from Shorecrest High School.
Congratulations!
(As many of you know, Bob was Washington State
World Languages
Teacher of the Year for 1999.)
Oriana Cadman
III. CONCURSO (Eduardo Tobar/OSPI)
Esta información de un concurso fotográfico
puede interesar a los
maestros de español del estado.
Eduardo Tobar
Spanish Language Consultant
Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Old Capitol Building
P.O. Box 47200
Olympia WA 98504-7200
(360) 664-2400
fax (360) 664-2605
etobar@ospi.wednet.edu
http://www.k12.wa.us/spanish
Barcelona, 26 de abril de 2000
Estimado/a amigo/a:
Difusión ha organizado un concurso fotográfico
especialmente dirigido
a profesores y a alumnos de español lengua
extranjera. La iniciativa pretende promover la reflexión sobre
cuestiones relacionadas
con nuestra cultura. Buscamos fotos E/LE, imágenes
que permitan descubrir aspectos de nuestras costumbres, de nuestros paisajes,
de nuestra lengua, de nuestra manera de ser.
No tienen que haber sido tomadas necesariamente en España o Latinoamérica.
En
cualquier lugar del mundo puede haber una presencia
hispana y el concurso pretende ser un aliciente para descubrirla.
Proponemos un proyecto didáctico que involucre
a profesores y a alumnos en
la búsqueda de imágenes que representen
nuestra cultura y en el debate que
ello pueda generar.
El proyecto se plantea en 6 pasos:
El cartel en el aula: una primera aproximación
al cartel del
concurso, profesor/a y alumnos comentan las imágenes,
interpretan el texto e
intercambian sus puntos de vista.
Las bases del concurso: los alumnos leen el texto
en el aula y
realizan un trabajo de comprensión lectora
de un texto auténtico del que se
pretende extraer una información.
Tu mirada: el/la profesor/a y los alumnos, fuera
del centro, hacen fotografías de aquellos motivos que les resultan
sugerentes y que
plasman, en imágenes, rasgos de nuestra
cultura.
Las fotos en el aula: entre todos se comentan
las fotografías y las
razones que han llevado a cada uno a tomarlas.
La exposición en el centro: se puede montar
una exposición con las
fotos tomadas por alumnos y profesores. Es una
buena oportunidad para abrir
el centro a cualquier persona interesada por
la cultura de los países en
los que se habla español.
El concurso fotográfico: las fotos, un
máximo de tres por persona, se envían a la editorial Difusión
para participar en el concurso
"Con otros ojos".
Queremos animar a todos los profesionales relacionados
con la enseñanza
del español y la difusión de la
cultura a participar en este proyecto.
Encontraréis las bases del concurso en
nuestra página web http://www.difusion.com. Si deseáis recibir
un póster o más información,
no dudéis en poneros en contacto con nosotros.
Recibid un cordial saludo.
DIFUSIÓN, S.L.
Lourdes Teixidó
Difusión, S.L.
c/ Trafalgar, 10, entlo. 1ª
08010 - Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 268 03 00
Fax (+34) 93 310 33 40
http://www.difusion.com
IV. PRENTICE HALL AND McDOUGALL LITTELL
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS.
The Prentice Hall Scholarship for Excellence
in Spanish Studies (demonstrated through scholarship) has been awarded
to Julia
Handley of Shorewood High School, our state's
top finisher in Level 5 Spanish Regular. Her teacher for Spanish
V is Suzanne
Louden of Shorewood High, who is Chair of the
Department. "Regular" means that this student is not a native speaker
or a product
of bilingual education involving Spanish.
The McDougall Littell Scholarship for an Outstanding
Spanish student (demonstrated outside the classroom) has been awarded
to
Amanda Ellis of Franklin Pierce High School,
a student of Barbara Rupert's. Here is what Barb had to say about
her.
Dear AATSP board,
It is my absolute pleasure to recommend Amanda
Ellis for the Outstanding
Spanish student scholarship. Amanda is one of
the most competent and scholarly
Spanish students that I have had during my fifteen
year teaching career. She
has found numerous ways to use Spanish outside
of the classroom to benefit
others and I believe that she would be a very
deserving recipient.
Amanda is an incredibly motivated Spanish learner.
On her own, she checks out
real Spanish literature by authors such as Gabriel
GarcÌa Marquez and Isabel
Allende from the library or my bookshelves and
actually reads and studies the
works. This is a thrilling first for me! In addition,
she borrows books about
the language such as Advanced Placement workbooks
and does them for fun,
asking me questions when she doesnít understand.
Amanda is incredibly bright
and truly a gifted learner. She may not always
exhibit the same degree of
enthusiasm in all of her subject areas, but I
know that the passion she has
for Spanish will serve her and her community
well.
Amanda has been a model employee at a local Mexican
restaurant where she was
not afraid to practice her Spanish with coworkers
and customers. She has come
to school on a regular basis with new poems and
expressions learned at work.
Her success at her job is a perfect demonstration
of her delightful
personality and dependability.
Amanda also serves her community as a volunteer.
Last year, she successfully
taught first graders Spanish on a weekly basis.
After school, she went to a
local elementary school and presented lessons,
sang songs, played games and
taught Spanish to the children. It has been a
fabulous experience for all
involved. This year that program has been integrated
into the teaching day and
is now a class. Amanda continues to work wonderfully
with the children. One
day, she was introduced to a non-English speaking
Mexican girl and became
inspired. She is now working with the principal
of that elementary school to
teach ESL to a group of Spanish speaking children
on a weekly basis as a
volunteer. She will design and teach the lessons,
all on her own time.
This fall Amanda went to Mexico as an exchange
student and spent the semester
falling in love with the country, the people
and continuing her love for the
language. Having been an exchange student in
Mexico myself, I know what a
phenomenal experience that was for her. While
she was there, she gave
presentations in Spanish to all of the classes
in the school that she
attended.
Out of all of my students who have learned Spanish
in high school, Amanda has
gone the farthest to use it to benefit her community.
I feel certain that she
will continue her studies and eventually use
Spanish in her career as well.
Please consider giving her the AATSP Outstanding
Spanish Student Scholarship.
Sincerely,
Barbara Rupert
Spanish Teacher and World Languages Department
Chairperson
Franklin Pierce High School
V. SPANISH TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
See previous Boles for instructions on how to
nominate a colleague. Nominations close May 31.
VI. A WORD FROM ELOY GONZALEZ
Professor Eloy González of WSU notes that
his quotation was "EW does not equal C: Electronic Writing does not equal
Conversation." I incorrectly reported it
as composition.
Hasta muy pronto,
Jay Adams-Feuer
Secretario del capítulo