REFERRAL FORM



Doral Academy Charter

Middle /High School

PARENT PERMISSION

FOR PG/PG-13 MOVIE FORM

Dear Parent(s) and/or Guardian(s):

Throughout the duration of the school year we will be using instructional tools to aid in the education of your child. One of the main tools includes instructional movies to help your child understand and relate to real world experiences. Some of these movies have been rated PG-13/not rated and will be presented as a supplement to productive classroom instruction (only some movies will be watch not all). No movie will be shown without the parent(s) consent. Please choose one of the following options below, print and sign in the designated area and return this form to your child’s teacher.

Thank you,

Name of Movie presented “Pirates of Silicon Valley” Rated: PG

Name of Movie presented “Flash of Genius” Rated: PG-13

Name of Movie presented “Eagle Eye” Rated: PG-13

Doral Academy Charter

Middle /High School

PARENT PERMISSION

FOR PG/PG-13 MOVIE FORM

Name of Movie presented “Antitrust” Rated: PG-13

Name of Movie presented “Hackers” Rated: PG-13

Name of Movie presented “The Net” Rated: PG-13

Doral Academy Charter

Middle /High School

PARENT PERMISSION

FOR PG/PG-13 MOVIE FORM

Name of Movie presented “The Social Network” Rated: PG-13

Name of Movie presented “Minority Report” Rated: PG-13

Name of Movie presented “Tron” Rated: PG-13

Doral Academy Charter

Middle /High School

PARENT PERMISSION

FOR PG/PG-13 MOVIE FORM

|Movie |Yes, my child is allowed to view this movie|No, my child is not allowed to view this |

| |for instructional purposes. |movie for instructional purposes. |

|“Pirates of Silicon Valley” Rated: PG | | |

|“Flash of Genius” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“Eagle Eye” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“Antitrust” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“Hackers” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“The Net” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“The Social Network” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“Minority Report” Rated: PG-13 | | |

|“Tron” Rated: PG-13 | | |

Student Name: _____________________________ Period: ______________ Date: _________

Print Parent or Guardian name: __________________________________________

Signature of Parent or Guardian: _________________________________________

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Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 (PG) made-for-television film directed by Martyn Burke and based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. The film documents the impact on the development of the personal computer of the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft. It spans the time period of the early 1970s to 1997, when Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) develop a partnership after Jobs returns to Apple Computer.

Flash of Genius is a 2008 American biographical film directed by Marc Abraham. The screenplay by Philip Railsback, based on a 1993 New Yorker article by John Seabrook, focuses on Robert Kearns and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company when they developed an intermittent windshield wiper based on ideas the inventor had patented. The film's title, the phrase "flash of genius," is patent law terminology which was in effect from 1941 to 1952, which held that the inventive act must come into the mind of an inventor as a kind of epiphany and not as a result of tinkering. Although this test lasted little more than a decade, it was most likely an appealing and easy standard for judges and unsophisticated jurors to apply to any given patent dispute when the technology being disputed was beyond their scientific acumen.

Eagle Eye is a 2008 American thriller film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller (Julianne Moore) into carrying out a plan by a possible terrorist organization. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.

Antitrust is a 2001 thriller film written by Howard Franklin and directed by Peter Howitt. Antitrust portrays young idealistic programmers and a large corporation (NURV) that offers significant money, a low-keyed working environment, and creative opportunities for those talented programmers willing to work for them. The charismatic CEO of NURV (Robbins) seems to be good natured, but recent employee and protagonist Milo Hoffman (Phillippe) begins to unravel the terrible hidden truth of NURV's operation.

Hackers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Lorraine Bracco and Fisher Stevens. A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus. The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy.

The Net is a 1995 cyber thriller film directed by Irwin Winkler and featuring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. Angela Bennett is a computer expert. This young and beautiful analyst is never far from a computer and modem. The only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, whom she's only spoken to over the net and phone, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug. That night, he left to meet her and was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk she has received only hours before she leaves for vacation. Her life then turns into a nightmare, her records are erased from existence and she is given a new identity, one with a police record. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her.

The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use new technology and three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.

Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmaneuver the Master Control program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.

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