Parents, high school students**, educators and anyone working with children, please join us for a presentation of SCREENAGERS: Growing Up in the Digital Age, a documentary about the biggest parenting issue of our time.
Date: Tuesday October 24, 2017
Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Venue: Vancouver College, 5400 Cartier Street, Vancouver
This is a FREE event, but please REGISTER to ensure you have a seat for this event. Advance registration will help us plan for the appropriate venue at Vancouver College and with preparation of hand-outs and refreshments.
– Check-in
6:45 pm
– Welcome & Intro
– Movie: Screenagers (70 min)
8:15 pm
– Discussion groups: Parents/Teenage Girls/Teenage Boys
– Discussion (30 min)
– Closing
9:00 pm
– Reception
Synopsis
Award-winning SCREENAGERS probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, and depicts daily struggles, over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through solid insights from authors and brain scientists solutions emerge on how we can empower parents, educators and kids to best navigate the digital world.
Parents are encouraged to bring their teenage son or daughter.
Parents with children of all ages are encouraged to attend.
About the Director
Delaney Ruston MD, Filmmaker of Screenagers, is a Stanford trained physician and social change documentary filmmaker who got the idea to make Screenagers while struggling with her kids over screen time. Looking around she saw the trends of more kids getting smart phones, more tech in schools, and more homework online and wondered what all this screen time meant. As a physician she wanted to understand the science of tech time on children’s development and as a mom she wanted to know what to do. Ultimately Delaney made Screenagers because she believes deeply in the importance of helping kids find balance in our tech- filled world. She is passionate about having the film be a vehicle to bring together parents, educators and kids so that change can happen not just in our homes but in our schools and communities.
As seen on Good Morning America and PBS NewsHour
Watch the Movie Trailer
http://www.screenagersmovie.com/
For more information email office@pife.ca. Please leave your phone number if you would like to be contacted by phone.
** Parents, although this movie is made for children 10 or above, there are a few brief moments of violence during a video game scene and inappropriate dress. The student discussion group is for students in highschool, grade 8-12. Parents will meet separately from the students.