{"id":8319,"date":"2017-01-20T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:53:13","slug":"dannykimfilm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/dannykimfilm\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Visiting“The Stories They Tell<\/strong><\/a>,” Visiting Instructor of Art Danny Kim’s documentary film about the Co-Authorship Project of Woodward Elementary School and Kalamazoo College, is an official selection of the Made in Michigan Film Festival<\/strong><\/a> (Frankenmuth, Michigan). It will screen on Sunday, February 5, at 4:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

The film is no stranger to awards. It won the Kalamazoo Film Society\u2019s \u201cPalm d\u2019Mitten\u201d Award for best local film. And the documentary took second place for best feature film at the North-by-Midwest Film Festival in Kalamazoo! It also has screened at the Lake Erie Arts and Film Festival in Sandusky, Ohio, the East Lansing Film Festival in Michigan, and Reading FilmFEST in Reading, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stories They Tell\u201d chronicles remarkable collaborations, like \u201cTacos for Dragons,\u201d one of the many books featured in the film.<\/p>\n

The saga of that unlikely pair (dragons and tacos) is the product of the imaginations and work of two seemingly unlikely co-authors, one a Kalamazoo College student and the other a third grader at Woodward Elementary.<\/p>\n

\"VisitingSuch collaborations are unlikely no more, thanks to the Co-authorship Project, the subject of Kim\u2019s 80-minute film and the heart of Professor of Psychology Siu-Lan Tan\u2019s developmental psychology class for the last 15 years. The Co-authorship Project gives K students the opportunity to create an original storybook with an elementary student in order to gain a deeper insight into child development. Tan\u2019s developmental psychology class is one of many academic service-learning courses<\/strong><\/a> that are designed in collaboration with the College\u2019s Center for Civic Engagement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The documentary showcases the project from beginning to end, starting with the picking of partners and culminating in the various unique completed works. The film spans almost a decade and a half of story making, to which Kim had unique access. He and Tan are husband and wife.<\/p>\n

Animation infuses both the class and the film. \u201cThe project has made the developmental psychology class come to life,\u201d said Tan,\u201dawakening ideas with real world experience. The collaborations give my students something more than what they could get in books alone.\u201d Likewise, Kim\u2019s animation of the creativity in each story makes the film leap to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe documentary is really about relationships, learning, connecting, and, at its core, imagination,\u201d said Tan. \u201cOne skill that children naturally possess is imagination and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film highlights how much each interaction with a child can help augment what a college student knows about child development. The interactions also can affect a career path.<\/p>\n

The life\u2019s work of at least two of Tan\u2019s former students offers proof. After viewing a sneak preview of the film in April of 2015, both women confirmed that the project directly influenced their decisions to pursue careers in education.<\/p>\n

Rachelle (Tomac) Busman \u201905<\/strong> is a school psychologist in the Byron Center (Michigan) School District and Sally (Warner) Read<\/strong> \u201908 is the head of the Kazoo School, an independent school in Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember everything about the little girl I worked with,\u201d said Busman.<\/p>\n

Kim thinks the contact with colleges students could help inspire their elementary school aged partners to consider college as part of their futures, and he said he hopes the documentary inspires similar projects elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be wonderful if somebody saw it and said maybe we could start something like this,\u201d said Kim.<\/p>\n

At K The project\u2019s concept has been expanded and continued through a partnership with the Center for Civic Engagement. As the students (college and primary school) create these whimsical, amusing and surprising stories, the connections they make with each other have a lasting impact, not only in literacy and learning, but in understanding their pasts and futures.<\/p>\n

Photo by Danny Kim<\/em>
\nArt by Pennilane Mara <\/em>
\nMatt Munoz ’14 contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[31,43,39,60],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-alumni","tag-community","tag-faculty","tag-psychology"],"yoast_head":"\r\nImagination Celebration - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""The Stories They Tell," Visiting Instructor of Art Danny Kim's documentary film about the Co-Authorship Project of Woodward Elementary School and\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/dannykimfilm\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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It will screen on Sunday, February 5, at 4:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The film is no stranger to awards. It won the Kalamazoo Film Society\u2019s \u201cPalm d\u2019Mitten\u201d Award for best local film. And the documentary took second place for best feature film at the North-by-Midwest Film Festival in Kalamazoo! It also has screened at the Lake Erie Arts and Film Festival in Sandusky, Ohio, the East Lansing Film Festival in Michigan, and Reading FilmFEST in Reading, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stories They Tell\u201d chronicles remarkable collaborations, like \u201cTacos for Dragons,\u201d one of the many books featured in the film.<\/p>\n<p>The saga of that unlikely pair (dragons and tacos) is the product of the imaginations and work of two seemingly unlikely co-authors, one a Kalamazoo College student and the other a third grader at Woodward Elementary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8321 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/StoriesTwo.jpg\" alt=\"Visiting Instructor of Art Danny Kim's documentary\" width=\"350\" height=\"287\" \/>Such collaborations are unlikely no more, thanks to the Co-authorship Project, the subject of Kim\u2019s 80-minute film and the heart of Professor of Psychology Siu-Lan Tan\u2019s developmental psychology class for the last 15 years. The Co-authorship Project gives K students the opportunity to create an original storybook with an elementary student in order to gain a deeper insight into child development. Tan\u2019s developmental psychology class is one of many academic <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/slcourses\/\"><strong>service-learning courses<\/strong><\/a> that are designed in collaboration with the College\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/aboutus\/\">Center for Civic Engagement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary showcases the project from beginning to end, starting with the picking of partners and culminating in the various unique completed works. The film spans almost a decade and a half of story making, to which Kim had unique access. He and Tan are husband and wife.<\/p>\n<p>Animation infuses both the class and the film. \u201cThe project has made the developmental psychology class come to life,\u201d said Tan,\u201dawakening ideas with real world experience. The collaborations give my students something more than what they could get in books alone.\u201d Likewise, Kim\u2019s animation of the creativity in each story makes the film leap to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe documentary is really about relationships, learning, connecting, and, at its core, imagination,\u201d said Tan. \u201cOne skill that children naturally possess is imagination and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film highlights how much each interaction with a child can help augment what a college student knows about child development. The interactions also can affect a career path.<\/p>\n<p>The life\u2019s work of at least two of Tan\u2019s former students offers proof. After viewing a sneak preview of the film in April of 2015, both women confirmed that the project directly influenced their decisions to pursue careers in education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachelle (Tomac) Busman \u201905<\/strong> is a school psychologist in the Byron Center (Michigan) School District and <strong>Sally (Warner) Read<\/strong> \u201908 is the head of the Kazoo School, an independent school in Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember everything about the little girl I worked with,\u201d said Busman.<\/p>\n<p>Kim thinks the contact with colleges students could help inspire their elementary school aged partners to consider college as part of their futures, and he said he hopes the documentary inspires similar projects elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be wonderful if somebody saw it and said maybe we could start something like this,\u201d said Kim.<\/p>\n<p>At K The project\u2019s concept has been expanded and continued through a partnership with the Center for Civic Engagement. As the students (college and primary school) create these whimsical, amusing and surprising stories, the connections they make with each other have a lasting impact, not only in literacy and learning, but in understanding their pasts and futures.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Danny Kim<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Art by Pennilane Mara <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Matt Munoz ’14 contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}