What are the guiding values of SBP’s objectives?
• Education can be enhanced by making learning more relevant to students’ interests and community attributes. Writing, speaking, organization skills are necessary skills for preparing a documentary treatment, and necessary for lasting academic success. • Learning is more relevant when skills are applicable, motivating, and useable after graduation in a vibrant industry that is heavily supported by the state of New Mexico. • Communities must be intimately involved in the project in order to have immediate as well as lasting benefits. This means that community leaders (educators, elders, business people, and elected or chosen officials) participate in selecting the theme of the film, the cultural or linguistic aspects to be probed and preserved. • Each community’s attributes are included in the design of student materials. • Film is a medium that stirs imagination, creates relevancy, and motivates learning. • The industry of film professionals (Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo) must
