VEC

Visual Education Centre Ltd/Criterion Films

Member schools must submit film viewing reports for each term;

December/March/June

VIEWING REPORT PROCEDURE –

*SPECIAL NOTE: Due to continual changes with regards to the film companies represented by the film licensing you must check the studio listing on each companies website prior to completing your viewing reports.

1. Criterion Films Go to www.criterionpic.com/034/lcl_ppa.html
2. Client # 41335
3. Complete and submit report Announcement for VEC Educational license holders only

FREE TEACHERS GUIDES:  VEC has recently partner with a company called TEACHING WITH MOVIES.ORG.  Through this partnership, VEC will be providing free access to more than 100 Feature Film Teacher’s guides for all Educational License holders.  Each teacher will have unlimited access to our new TEACHER’s dedicated section of our website.  Each guide is extensive and will provide teachers with access to educationally valuable materials, tips, and topic suggestions. Most guides are tied to a form of “character education” as well as relating to the literary adaptation they represent. Most of these guides have been written by teachers for teachers.

VEC will be adding a minimum of TWO new guides per month and we welcome your suggestions. We have spent considerable time reviewing “screening” reports submitted, as well as hiring some educational consultants.

Feature films have a solid place in the educational market. VEC’s license will not only provide your teachers with the necessary copyright protection to the majority of feature films used in the Canadian classroom, BUT will now provide them with detailed lesson plans, discussion topics, related subject material, etc.

Once your PPLL renewal has been finalized, in order to access the guide, enter our Web Site:  www.criterionpic.com, and click on the “Teach With Movies” Symbol, or enter directly using the URL: http://www.criterionpic.com/CPL/lcl_guides.html, and then simply click on the guide that interests you, and then click on the Apple. From there you will be asked to enter your user name and password. A username and password will be supplied to you in your renewal package.

Please see our attached example:

http://teachwithmovies.org/samples/hamlet.html

MONGREL MEDIA: VEC added Mongrel Media in 2008 to its list of producers.  Mongrel media is responsible for the distribution of a wide variety of educational documentaries, as well as feature films.  The Merchant of Venice, Who Killed the Electric Car, Water, Away From Her, Flow:  For Love of Water, Standard Operating Procedure, Social Genocide, Winged Migration, Life and Debt, Blue Gold:  World Water Wars, and many others. For the first time, Mongrel has agreed to allow these fabulous documentaries to be included in a blanket licensing agreement.  Mongrel’s collection also includes all the titles from SONY PICTURES CLASSIC.  Again, this is the first time that this wonderful collection has been made available in this licensing format.

BIG IDEA PRODUCTIONS: VEC added BIG IDEA in 2008, as this collection includes the entire Veggie Tale product!  This programming is exceptional for the early years and widely used for Character education.

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES: VEC is also pleased to announce the addition of Turner Classic Movies, as of February 1, 2009. TURNER FILMS include some of the BEST classic movies of ALL times, and a large number of titles that are used for educational purposes by Canadian schools.  This library includes titles such as:  Mutiny on the Bounty, Madame Curie, Julius Caesar, Ben Hur, Philadelphia Story, Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Gone With the Wind, and many, many more.

ALLIANCE FILMS, NEW as of May 1, 2009, which includes: New Line Cinema, Miramax, Remstar, USA Films, The Weinstein Company, Odeon Films, Focus Features, Dimension Films, Artisan Films.  Great titles such as Coraline, Elf, Hairspray, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Igor, Hamlet 2, Milk, Super Size Me, Hoodwinked, Chicago, Milk, Spy Kids, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and thousands more.

VEC’s license is the most comprehensive, all encompassing program available to Canadian Schools. Statistically it covers approximately 70% of the titles shown by Schools, and represents more than 70% of the domestic box office revenue. VEC’s collection of CGI animated films is the largest in Canada as is our studio offering.  ALLIANCE FILMS, WARNER BROTHERS, MONGREL MEDIA, 20^TH CENTURY FOX, FOX SEARCHLIGHT, PARAMOUNT PICTURES, PARAMOUNT VANTAGE, LIONSGATE FILMS, MAPLE PICTURES, DREAMWORKS, COLUMBIA PICTURES, TRI-STAR PICTURES, COOKIE JAR ENTERTAINMENT, SONY PICTURES CLASSICS, TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, WARNER INDEPENDENT, NELVANA and BIG IDEA! VEC has the largest selection of literary adaptations, Shakespeare films, CGI animated Children’s films, environmental titles, and documentaries.  This coupled with our new TEACHER’S GUIDE section, makes VEC’s PPLL a great educational tool.