One of Emily's classmates from last year has a father who knows a thing or two about this so they put together such a video:
Video in Hi-Def
Then a week or so after the deadline he told me that they got confirmation of the receipt of that video (listen German school!!!) and then two days later that they need some paperwork about the rights of the first born and what else. Then we were told that they are in the final selection and that we need to hand over more rights - well almost.
Only five children plus one chaperon were allowed and we were told that a showing of a member of the Obama family was unlikely. We then talked with Emily and she wasn't too thrilled about going there alone. We got an exception though and all eight children plus a second adult, a teacher, were allowed, so Emily said yes to the field trip.
And the day before the film festival they announced that Barack Obama would make a brief statement.
On February 28th, Emily had an early release (otherwise it would have been the first week this year of five full school days), in three cars they headed downtown and went to the film festival. Sixteen out of 2,500 submissions were selected to show. All were winners, there was not one single winner.
