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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.