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Dove Foundation Applauded for Reviewing Family Entertainment
Every spring school children
across America bring home notices about the upcoming
Dove Family Film festivals. For approximately six weeks,
selected movies are shown for free to children 12 and
under and for only $2 for adults. It’s a wonderful
opportunity to see some age appropriate family movies
without denting the family budget.
However the Dove Foundation, who sponsors
the film festivals, does so much more than offer free
movies. The Foundation is a non-profit organization
established to promote and support the creation, production
and distribution of wholesome family entertainment.
The Foundation, which doesn’t operate under commercial
pressures, awards a blue and white Dove Seal to any
movie or video that is rated "family-friendly"
by its film review board. The review board is made up
of parents who have been trained to evaluate each film
or video based upon Judeo-Christian ethics. To date
they have approved over 3,000 videos and movies.
That amount of R-rated movies that have
been released since 1968 is staggering. Of all films
released since then, 60% have been rated-R. Parents
are fervently seeking high quality, wholesome entertainment
options for their families. They don’t want their
children exposed to all the unnecessary sex, violence
and anti-family values that runs rampant at the movie
theaters and on their own DVDs. Now, because of the
Dove Foundation, there is a reliable indicator to identify
movies that are safe for family viewing. The Dove Seal
makes it easy for customers to recognize titles that
are safe for family viewing.
In addition to the film festivals and
the review board, the Foundation also has a Children's
Hospital Dove Movie Channel. The goal of this channel
is to provide Dove-approved movies to hospitalized children.
Day-time television is loaded with soap-operas and talk
shows which are not geared toward the younger audiences.
This Hospital Movie Channel is free to hospitals and
provides a welcomed break for kids who have nothing
to do all day long between treatments, therapies and
surgeries.
Steve Allen, comedian, author, composer
and former "Tonight Show" host says it best,
"There is no doubt that our entire culture is experiencing
a moral breakdown. People can get more family-friendly
movies on film and television by supporting the Dove
Foundation."
Don’t forget to look for the blue
and white Dove Seal of approval while browsing the video
stores! Also, if you’re interested in reviewing
the Dove evaluations for a particular movie, visit http://www.dove.org.
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