Time to sharpen your pencils and your wits… Sweep the cobwebs from your sleepy summertime noggin and hit the books.
Whether you’re the teacher or the teacher’s pet you’ll get a kick out of this back-to school playlist, reminding you of all the fun and fury that goes on in and between classrooms.
Selected shorts include: A modern day pint-sized “David” overcomes his “Goliath” in The Strap, directed by Jason Gileno; the tragedy of the Residential School experience is poignantly illustrated in Lisa Jackson’s Savage; The School, directed by Jonathan Hayes, is where class projects prove to be uniquely challenging for students and teacher alike; in gender bender Boss of Me, directed by Brett Blackwell, a male kindergarden teacher pushes his assassin wife’s buttons; we can all relate to the caffine buzz described in Kel Varnson’s Coffee Mishap; and finally, a nine year old rules the day to show the teacher who’s boss in Vivieno Caldinelli’s Career Day.