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SOCIAL MEDIA SPONSOR

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There are lots of ways to give - and one way is by telling people about us! Taking 5 minutes of your time to tell your friends about all the hard work we are doing - it can really change someone’s life! And if you’re not a writer we will even help you draft it!

Cost: FREE

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CAMERA SPONSOR

Sponsor a Suitcase

To ensure we can give our stars the quality of education they deserve, we  make sure they have all the tools they need to express themselves and learn. You can lend, donate or gift these items to us!

Cost: $ 350

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STAR SPONSOR

Sponsor a STAR

To ensure we can give our stars the quality of education they deserve, we  make sure they have all the tools they need to express themselves and learn. Help us out by sponsoring a star!

Cost: $500

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TRAVEL SPONSOR

Sponsor a Scholarship

We want to give all our talented educators and filmmakers a chance to  travel and leave an impact on the world. Sponsor our scholarship fund to  help make these trips possible to those who can't afford it!

TOTAL: 2500 USD

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CORPORATE SPONSOR

We are always looking for corporations that can help us expand our mission of educating and empowering the next generation. Contact us if you would like to know more about our various CSR partnership agreements!


 
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OSCAR SPONSOR

Sponsor a culture

We have programs in third world countries. We want to continue running these programs, and creating more educational content for their societies.  By sponsoring a country, you are not only empowering local filmmakers, teachers and kids, but you are also generating content that will educate thousands of more students in that country.

What Has the Media been Saying About Us?

LCL in Africa

Our vice president of operations Wafa Bardaa sits down with the team of Africa express for a radio interview to talk about our projects in Africa.

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Pepperdine Student develops non-profit

by Anastassia Kostin … read more here

Amal Bahloul teaching children through her nonprofit — Lights, Camera, Learn.

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Classrooms? Let’s Make a Movie Instead!

The more technologically advanced we are becoming, the harder it is to keep children focused on their education. This is why Amal Bahloul, the CEO and Founder of Lights, Camera, Learn took it upon herself to find innovative methods of bringing technology into the classroom, and the classroom to the world.

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٣ ٢ أكشن... هل تساعد السينما في تعليم الأطفال لغات جديدة؟

لقد نشرت ال سي ان ان العربيه مقاله عن أمل بهلول، شابة تونسية، استخدمت الصناعة السينمائية وفن رواية الحكاية أساسا لمنظمة أطلقتها وحملت اسم

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الهدف الرئيسي لهذه المنظمة غير الربحية هو تعليم اللغة والانفتاح على الثقافات المختلفة

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Languages through "edutainment" by Leona Caanen

Imagine a new way of learning a language- one that does not require you to sit still in a classroom for 80 minutes. Instead, you get to make short movies and attend red carpets, while being immersed in a new culture. Amal Bahloul calls this "edutainment."

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رئيسة المنظمة في حوار لها على تلفزيون الآن للحديث عن أهداف وانجازات وتطلعات المنظمة

دأبت الجمعية على ترسيخ قيم الانفتاح على الثقافات الأخرى وذلك من خلال نشاطها الرئيسي ألا وهو تعليم الأطفال اللغات عبر فن صناعة الأفلام. من خلال برامجنا يقوم الأطفال تحت إشراف المؤطرين باختيار افكار افلامهم وبكتابة السيناريوهات وبتمثيل الأدوار وبالإخراج. تجربة لايتس كاميرا ليرن هي مجال لاكتشاف ولصقل مواهب الأطفال وفي كثير من المناسبات مثلت نقلة نوعية للأطفال وذلك من خلال توفيرها لفرصة لهم للتعبير عن آراءهم بكل حرية

Angel investors: Seed capital helps MENA female start-ups take flight

"[Amal] Bahloul’s company runs workshops which educate Arab children – including many Syrian refugees - through the art of filmmaking. The children write, perform and produce English language short movies to help them connect with different cultures and share their own unique stories."

June 8, 2018                                      Read More

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A festive atmosphere in the "Red Carpet" for the development of English in the film industry

The films that were presented are the product of an international project to develop the English language in filmmaking, which was initiated by the Center for Arabic Language, Al Qasimi for Innovative Education (ACIE) with the participation of the four schools mentioned and the American Lights, Camera, Learn organization...

May 27, 2018                                      Read more

Education of the Gifted, Amal Bahloul & Dr. Enas Qa'adan

Our founder and president sits down with our friend and sponsor Dr. Enas Qa'adan for an interview with Sabahna, a Nazareth-based news organization, to talk about our work in the region and beyond.

May 2, 2018

 

فقرة ضمن حلقة االثاني من ايار لعام 2018 من برنامج #صباحنا_غير تناولت الحديث عن تعليم الموهوبين ضيوف الفقرة : أمل بهلول - رئيسة lights camera learn د.

برنامج أهلا تونس | الجزء الثاني - Amal Bahloul on Lights, Camera, Learn June 30th 2018

 

2017

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Filmmaking helps refugee girls learn English
Filmmaking helps refugee girls learn English

"From filmmaking, I learned to never give up on my dreams no matter how tough the path gets."

Alaa Mustafa, 13, is among the estimated 11 million Syrians who have fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011. Living in the UAE for the past six years, she was also among the 33 girls between 10 and 15 years old, to recently take part in the filmmaking programme under the NGO 'Lights Camera Learn' that aims to empower and educate children through the art of filmmaking.

As the war left over 3.5 million refugee children without proper access to education in 2016 alone, Lights Camera Learn teaches English to displaced children around the world through an interactive method of learning.

Through the programme that toured Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia, children got to write their own scripts in English and act in different roles on camera to produce short films.

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Learning Through the Arts (LTTA): a refuge for refugees
Learning Through the Arts (LTTA): a refuge for refugees

Maher Bahloul, University of British Columbia (UBC)’s visiting linguistics professor from The American University of Sharjah, Dubai, has constructed a Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) proposal for refugees.

The concept of Bahloul’s proposal Meaningful Integration of Syrian Refugees: Targeting the Artists is based on several factors, including the recent arrival of Syrian Refugees in Canada and the country’s experience in arts-based education.

 

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My Story

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It all started with Allen.

Well, in actuality it began with my dad. But I only recognized how important his work was once I met Allen.

Allen was 6 when I met him. He and his family had moved from the United States to Sfax, Tunisia. They enrolled in my dad’s program to learn Arabic through filmmaking. Although Allen only had one line in the script, the movie was called “Allen’s Birthday.” Three months after that session, my dad received a thank you letter from Allen’s mom explaining to him how the session had changed Allen’s life. We found out that Allen had tried to go to Arabic classes but traditional teaching methods were putting Allen off the language. What’s more, Allen has a learning disability and learning English was challenging for him, let alone learning a whole new language. But during my dad's language program, Allen would go home and watch his movie so many times that he memorized every line. His mom would catch him repeating lines to himself in the bathroom mirror, and then using them in real life to interact with merchants, taxi drivers, and eventually to make friends. During the movie, Allen didn’t just learn a language, he learned to appreciate a new culture.

So many kids around the world view language as just another subject in class. But they are a gateway to a new world. After hearing Allen's story, I realized I wanted to open the world to children so that they can unlock their potential and one day change the world for the better.

- Amal Bahloul, President and Founder

 

Origins

“Every minute, over 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. And every day, over three billion videos are viewed on that one channel alone. We humans have become prolific both as consumers and producers of video. Increasingly, we use cameras to communicate our ideas and we use screens to listen to the ideas of others.

Driving this explosion is today’s youth. Having grown up comfortably amidst emerging digital storytelling tools they naturally seek to connect with others through their cameras and their camera enabled phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. We have this tremendous outpouring of activity and creation by young people around the world passionately dedicating many hours of their day into the creation of personal video projects.

But at the very same time, we are also witnessing a crisis in schools, with increasing drop out rates, disengaged learners, and students generally aggravated that school is boring, irrelevant and disconnected from their real lives. Why do we not pay attention to this gap in passion?

As educators, mentors and parents, we need to realize that for an increasing number of students, cameras are the new keyboard, and video production and viewing has become a large and meaningful part of these young people’s daily landscape.

This is where filmmaking in the classroom comes in. It’s an opportunity to connect students’ passion for creating media with our educational objectives to provide students with meaningful, relevant learning.

Personal filmmaking, made viable through today’s inexpensive and intuitive technologies, gives students an opportunity to express themselves in a modern dynamic language and at the same time, provides them with a methodology to creatively engage in the investigation of the world in which they live.”

- Dr. Maher Bahloul

 

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Language and Culture

We know that language and culture are interconnected, and that the best way to teach a language is through the culture. Our goal is to connect storytellers from all around the world to collaborate to create meaningful, inspiring, and educational art that happens when two cultures collide. We do this by connecting filmmakers with children around the world who wish to learn languages through the cooperative and immersive art of filmmaking. 

We know that languages are best taught through active learning. Traditionally, languages are taught in sections: grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking. Dr. Maher Bahloul realized that this is an unrealistic and inefficient way to teach languages. Rather, children should be taught through cultural understanding, immersion, and creativity. In 2011, Dr. Bahloul published a book called, "Lights, Camera, Action and the Brain: the Use of Filmmaking in the Classroom," in which he highlighted the many advantages of this teaching method. Filmmaking, as an innovative teaching technique, provides a way for our “stars”, or learners, to be actively involved in the product their making; thus, language learning almost becomes a secondary tool in the creative process, and the outcome of our sessions have been truly transformational on many levels for both our stars and directors.

Similarly, we believe that being a tourist in another country does not provide individuals with the most meaningful travel abroad experience; rather, they must take on the personality of a traveler. A traveler is someone that adds value to the society they are in by sharing their culture and at the same time seeking to understand the culture in which they are immersed. In today’s world, cultural immersion with locals is key to broadening one's horizons. Capturing that growth on film is truly spectacular.

Even though we started with just our passion for languages and culture, we have expanded to creating edutainment content in other fields, because we believe that localized content is the most efficient way to reach marginalized and underserved societies. It is also a way to provide a voice to stories that are usually not told, due to the fact that they are that of children.

 
 

Our Partners!

 

Lights, Camera, Learn is looking to team-up with organizations, companies, and individuals that share our mission. Send us a message if you'd like to partner with Lights, Camera, Learn in the future.