Carol Black’s last film, The Lost People of Mountain Village (which premiered at Mountainfilm 2005), aimed at an easy target—the overly developed town that neighbors Telluride. Her latest target is less obvious and may rankle people even more. Schooling the World takes a troubling, yet important, look at the often-harmful effects of Western education on indigenous cultures. Beautifully filmed in India by Telluride locals Ben Knight (Red Gold) and Jim Hurst (look for him on the slackline in Elks Park), this film will be an important voice in the conversation about globalization. If you want to have some of your basic assumptions called into question—which is worth doing every now and then—see this thoughtful and thought-provoking film.
—David Holbrooke