Behind the Veil
Uncovering the forgotten true beginnings of American cinema

With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, AFI’s Behind the Veil project chronicles the groundbreaking short films of storytellers in the early days of American cinema. This curriculum integrates film history and analysis, information and media literacy, and media arts production for 9th-12th grade students, so they can learn more about early film pioneers and produce their own original short films.

Curriculum Design Team:
Jill Beale, Learning Experience Designer
Sarah Blankfort Clothier, Manager, AFI Catalog of Feature Films at American Film Institute
Cynthia Felando, Film Scholar, Author, and Senior Lecturer at UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film and Media Studies

View curriculum here.