THE FIELD CENTER
for Children's Policy, Practice & Research

The Field Center hosted a Documentary Film Contest on the subject of child abuse for area high school and college students from the Greater Philadelphia area.  Winning films included:

• Oxford Area High School in the category of Best High School Documentary for Child Abuse: The Epidemic

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• Ursinus College in the category of Best College Documentary for Crystal Clear: Breaking the Cycle of Incest

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• Honorable Mention to the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program Independent Living Program for Life in the: System. 

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A Documentary Film Festival was held the evening of May 30, 2007 in the Zellerbach Theater of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.  After introductions by Joan Bressler of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office and State Representative Mike Gerber, prizes were awarded to the winning filmmakers by Film Contest Judge Judy Gelles, an award-winning documentary filmmaker. The audience was treated to a screening of the winning films as well as the Academy Award-nominated documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, a groundbreaking film by One Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare special guest presenter Amy Berg on the sexual abuse of children by a Catholic priest.