TEACH ENGLISH IN JAPAN: Sheona MacAulay
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Title: TEACH ENGLISH IN JAPAN: Sheona MacAulay
Reference number: 13706
Date: 2019
Director: d. Yushin Toda
Production company: Japan Desk Scotland
Sound: sound
Original format: unknown
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 24.37 mins
Description: Two young Scottish women describe their personal experiences of Japan - one as a teacher of English in schools and the other as a visitor.
Credits:
p. Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda, Japan Desk Scotland
comm. w. Yushin Toda
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. Yushin Toda
Shotlist:
Filmmaker's synopsis:
Sheona MacAulay from Edinburgh worked in Hokkaido, Japan, for two years on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme as an assistant language teacher of English at junior high schools. She talks about her teaching experiences, as well as her life outside the school, including her struggles against cold in winter, with five months of snow, and heat in summer.
Eve Waugh visited Sheona in Japan twice to find that Sheona became more confident with strangers. Eve talks about her findings of Japan as a tourist, such as staying in a capsule hotel.
The interview was carried out in May 2019 at Wellington Church, Glasgow.