Film Discounted Dreams John Merrow year made: 2007 1)Narrator 2)summary 3)period

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Film Discounted Dreams John Merrow year made: 2007

1)Narrator 2)summary 3)period of time addressed in the film 4)what academic disciplines does this film address? 5)film location 6)Identify key people in the film 7)scholars experts in film, what were 8)key points of information that you learned from this film? 9)what the single most important fact or idea that you learned from this film? 10)what the least informative part of the film? 11)if you could advise the filmmaker on a 2018/2019 remake of this film 12)what 3 suggestions would you make in order to improve or update the film? 13)what keywords would you use to describe this film? 13)what in your opinion is the "message" of this documentary film?

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Narrator- the movie “Discounted Dreams” high hope and harsh realities, is an informative and analytical documentary which explain the problems of education system in the country, every part of this movie shows the vast scenario of educational system and the movies is mainly point out the problems in community colleges. Conversation among students shows that these college are not able to fulfilling the aim which was assigned to these colleges. The education system in US is divide many steps as well but the discrimination in socio-economic development, students are not able to go for university so that the academic pressure is increasing on community colleges.

Period of time addressed in movie- the film is addressing present time problem in the reference of past and future concepts. Movies is based on contemporary problems and also provide the vast dimension of possible aspects.

Academic disciplines address by film- The movies is addressing higher education and explaining about community colleges and little about universities.

Film location- The film belong to social groups as they placed in different areas, film starts from new York city and talking about California and its city San Diego as well.

Key people- in this film we can see the problems and conversation among students, families and working people.

Krystal Jenkins as student, Jennica Dinnell who is also a student seeking admission in college, John Merrow, Dave Rynders a carpenter who want to change the stream and want to be a nurse, Nancy Shulock, Cindy Martin, Kay Mcclenney, Jose Sosa, James Lisante a teacher of community college, Whitney Werner who is the executive chef at beach club, Wayne Hulgin who is the teacher of paintings and arts, Nancy Shulock, Terry Burgess who is the president of San Diego city college, Edwin Hiel who is the counsellor at San Diego city college, Mike Kirst , George Mccormack who is remedial maths teacher, Aric Eidadu, Scott Olsen, Edy Alderson, Kathleen Perryman as full time faculty.

Learning from Movie- The movie is considering many aspect of Higher education as well as practical problems and solutions, the most important idea coming out from movie is Community colleges must be autonomous.

Least Informative part- the movie is very informative and analytical but the conversation among the people focusing higher education especially community college, not talking about Universities education In detail.

            As an advisor, I would like to suggest producer to add more factors about beginning to University.

Description and opinion- The film is describing education problems as well as solutions, some keywords like community colleges, students, groups and government infrastructure are common in this film.

In my opinion about this film, the film is very informative and providing vast scenario of education and job culture in the country, the film is also make a light on transferring problem, socio economic structure and reasons of dropouts.

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