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Doc Edge Schools is a concept that came about
after we met Rei Foundation.
Documentaries are quite often only made for adults.
Doc Edge Schools is designed to provide documentaries
as a free means of students being able to access content
about what's happening around the world.
Our goal is to get documentaries
to as many students as possible
throughout New Zealand and the Pacific.
Kids grow up, these days,
with really not easy access to documentaries.
The impact of those films, and what they can create
and what they can achieve, is limitless.
We get them to come along and provide them
with education kits, and then show them the films.
And then we have a question and answer session,
usually afterwards, with either the filmmakers,
or people who were involved.
I've never seen anything like it.
After the screenings, all of the hands
just went up like this.
We have relaxed screenings for special needs students.
The relaxed screenings are a really great innovation.
So we've got the lights turned about halfway down,
we've got doors left open,
students are free to get up and move around
and to talk and to sing and to dance.
It's a really beautiful experience.
Doc Edge's Schools On Demand is a platform
that we've built for schools, which has a collection
of our documentaries that would be suitable
for school-aged children.
Yeah, so we use Schools On Demand
in our schools to show a film to the whole school.
It takes the students on a bit of a journey
and asks some interesting questions that we, as teachers,
probably couldn't ask, because we're not filmmakers.
They're all curated to be specifically
for the New Zealand school curriculum.
We try to make sure that it's something
that they can engage in.
I found it very interesting,
but also scary at the same time.
I think it's really valuable, it's so important,
it's part of their learning.
Thank you very much to Doc Edge for providing us
with this opportunity to come out and watch.
Doc Edge Schools!
Documentaries have the ability
to really have a huge impact on audiences
and on societies in general.
Creating a programme gives us an opportunity
to provide an offering of films
that don't necessarily get seen
in the normal school curriculum.
Doc Edge Schools provides an opportunity
for students to actually sit down
and appreciate the documentary,
which allows them to understand more
about the wider world that we're in.