Programs about Inclusive Education
and Community Life


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Now on DVD!
With extra
interviews

A new edition of
the Best Selling Classic
The Inclusion Series

by Director 
Jacky Comforty
(The Optimists)
 



Programs that Inform and Inspire


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 Community Group, or Library
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Self Advocacy
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Illinois
Media Award
 

Golden Hugo
To

Step By Step:
Heather's Story
 


 

Choices   

This classic best selling,  program takes a look at four young people who
are
included into general education classrooms.  
A must see for all.
 


 

Step By Step: Heather's Story

This winner of a Golden Hugo Award, is a two-year, longitudinal look at Heather's journey from special education classroom to inclusion into regular school.


 

Inclusion : Issues for Educators
       
This best selling video addresses Inclusion from the point of view of teachers and administrators.


 

Families, Friends, Futures
        

How two families prepare for inclusion into school and the larger community.


 

Together We're Better
            
3 DVD set. Eeffective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment. With  noted inclusion specialists Dr. Marsha Forest, Dr. Jack Pearpoint, and Ms. Judith Snow.


 

Best of the Inclusion Series

Excerpted from:
Choices, Step by Step: Heather's story, Issues for Educators, and Families, Friends, Futures. The perfect presentation and self-advocacy tool.


 

Inclusion High
          

How one urban high school deals with diversity and inclusion of everyone.


 

Coming this Fall!

Friendship

Our newest work-in-progress about friendship. With Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest.


 

"This affirmative and practical resource is excellent for staff training and community education on a timely issue."
-- Booklist

"...A wide range of encouraging and informative ideas..."
--
Video Librarian

"An inspiring and encouraging look at what can be done by dedicated, forward looking professionals...  well done..."
--
School Library Journal

 

The Inclusion Series
is a unique resource for institutions and individuals.

This award-winning series is widely used by educators, professionals and parents world wide. It is shown in workshops, university classrooms, parent-teacher meetings, in-service training programs, resource centers, and other educational settings. Documentaries that inspire inclusion and offer audiences examples of inclusion of people with disabilities in real-life situations.

The first eight programs, were
created in conjunction with the
Illinois State Board of Education's Project CHOICES.

Inclusion High: was partially funded by the Chicago, Public Schools.

The videos are artfully crafted. They are genuine, dynamic and engaging. They unveil and demonstrate real  inclusion as it happens at school, home, work, and play. They provide models of cooperative teamwork and effective support systems.

Viewing these videos inspires all to
 problem-solving. The programs spark discussion about both the challenges and rewards of inclusion. They model and help schools make inclusion work well for all who are involved: students, teachers,  administrators, parents, and the community.


Other related programs
about tolerance and
peaceful coexistence:


The
story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust, and the friends who protected them.  A moving and vivid testament to what ordinary people can do in a time of crisis.

First Prize
Jerusalem International Film festival 2000
for “Documenting the Jewish Experience”


Co-Winner of the Peace Prize

Berlin International Film festival
2001


CINE –Golden Eagle Award 2001

"A miraculous sharp movie”
-- Chicago Tribune

"This spellbinding documentary offers a message of inspiration and hope."
-- Pioneer Press
 

In the Shadow
of Memory

A documentary about on-going struggles of children and grandchildren of victims of atrocities to overcome anger, hatred and grief.

Winner Golden Eagle Award

Winner of The communicator award

Distinguished Selection:
Karlovy Vary International Festival

"An excellent & fascinating film . . . instructive on how the ways in which we remember the past impacts on present and future generations.
-- Leon Stein, Professor of History Roosevelt University

In production:
Bulgarian in
EVANSTON
The story of  Penka Kassabova
an exceptional educator

 

 


Coming in 2005

PEACE BY PEACE
The daily challenges
faced by peace educators
and the lessons we can learn.
 

 


 

For more information about The Inclusion Series write:
comforty@comforty.com

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Comforty Media Concepts
Last modified: February 28, 2006