Educational Videos Plus                                                       Video and Television Productions by Laurie Simons


While I very much enjoy helping families through my counseling practice, I also have developed a passion for video and television production.  In 1999, when our oldest son was 16, he decided to use his savings to buy a video camera instead of a car.  As I watched him begin his film career, my own passion for video production was rekindled.  I had made three films over the previous two decades, and had always joked that if I had another life, I would be a film producer!  One thing led to another, and in 2004 I received a Certificate of Training in Advanced Track Video Production from Bellevue College.  Below is a partial list of my productions.


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DOCUMENTARIES

Our Faces:  We'd love to show you our faces, they're just like yours:  22 min. video with a 5 min. addendum for professional audiences - 2000, Educational Videos Plus. Educational video looks at the lives, trials, and joys of GBLT youth, adults, and their families, through their own eyes. Excellent alternative when a panel is not available.  This video has been used as part of the curriculum at the University of Washington School of Social Work, by Professor James DeLong, and has been broadcast on Educational Television Channels in Seattle and the Eastside, and in Greensborough, N.C.


Women of Transylvania: 22 minute video documentary (2004) Educational Videos Plus. Invites the viewer into a complex, other-worldly, yet somehow familiar community of Transylvanian village women and their daughters.  A Margaret Fuller Award project.  This program has been broadcast on Educational Television Channels in Seattle and the Eastside.


Currently in Production:  Feature documentary www.CanadaHealthCareMovie.com.


TELEVISION

“It’s Your City”:  Segments for newsmagazine style television program, (2002,2003) Bellevue, Washington

The following segments were broadcast on Educational Television on Seattle’s Eastside:

  • Kelsey Creek Park
  • Crossroads Mall
  • Bellevue Aquatic Center
  • Youth Eastside Services
  • Early Learning and Family Center Opening Ceremonies
  • BCC Parent Education

  

The Importance of Movement in Early Development:  30 minute television program (2003).  Professionals and experts in early development describe why early movement is important in helping a child’s brain develop.  The benefits of encouraging “tummy time” during infancy are presented.  Broadcast on educational television channels in Seattle and the Eastside.

 Bilingual Families:  30 minute television program (2004) produced for Parent Television Network.  Six families share their experiences raising children in their bilingual/bicultural homes, and how they are approaching the subject of bilingualism.  Includes additional comments from experts.  Broadcast by Parent Television Network on educational television channels in Seattle and the Eastside.

 

Original Play:  30 minute television program (2008) produced for Parent Television Network.  Six year old Jade and her parents attend a “Playshop” where they learn about Original PlayTM from O. Fred Donaldson, a world famous specialist in the use of play as an alternative to aggression, violence, and abuse. Original PlayTM is a result of Fred’s thirty years of research on the play behavior of wild animals and children around the world.

Broadcast by Parent Television Network on educational television channels in Seattle and the Eastside.


EDUCATIONAL

On a Good Day: 7 minutes (2000) Children’s Institute for Learning Differences, Mercer Island WA).   A day at a specialized school with a young boy who has attention deficit disorder.

 

Tap Dancing for Beginners: 30 minutes (2000) Featuring Shari Bernhart.  Presents basic tap dance steps, along with a section on what to wear when tap dancing, and how to pick out a practice board.

 

 Discipline Wheel: 12 minutes (2001) Family Interplay Education, Kirkland, WA.  Presents a positive, proactive way of communicating with young children to solve everyday problems and guide their behavior with no need for punishment or negative consequences.

 

BrainDance: 85 minutes (2003) Creative Dance Center, Seattle, WA.  Anne Green Gilbert and her students (toddlers through seniors) demonstrate eight variations of the BrainDance, an exercise that moves through eight fundamental movement patterns that wire the central nervous system in the first year of life.

 

Speak Your Languages: (2004) Highline Public Schools, Burien, WA.  A series of short videos profiling bilingual professionals whose language abilities led them to exciting careers.


 PROMOTIONAL

          Families for Effective Autism Treatment, Washington

          Children's Institute for Learning Differences

          International Smile Power

          Hope House (Orphanage in Romania)

     

         International Leadership Academy of Ethiopia


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