Here's what they said on the Gero-Ed website
http://www.cswe.org/CentersInitiatives/GeroEdCenter/Events/gerotrack/11Film.aspx
"Audience Choice Award voters selected Grandmother to Grandmother: New York to Tanzania as the winner of the 2nd annual Audience Choice Award of the Gero-Ed Film Festival. The documentary, available in either 29 or 56 minute lengths, highlights grandmothers and grandchildren from Tanzania and the Bronx to show how inspired partnerships can create opportunities for renewal and hope. In Sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS has orphaned 13 million children. Across America, AIDS, drugs, and violence are wiping out a generation of parents, leaving millions of children behind.
The Audience Choice Award was offered at the 2011 Gero-Ed Film Festival. The winning film was determined by audience scores for content on aging; presentation; technical aspects; whether students would benefit from the film; and the portrayal of positive views of aging."
The Gero-Ed film festival is a project of The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) which is a nonprofit national association representing more than 3,000 individual members, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. It's great to know that social work faculty will be showing this film to their students, especially since by 2020 it is estimated that one out of every six Americans will be 65 or older.
