Celebrating CONFETTI Ambassadors and launching the 1000 Screenings Movement with our NYC Premiere!

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Launching our CONFETTI Red Carpet Event and Introducing our First CONFETTI Ambassadors!

We are excited to launch the CONFETTI 1000 Community Screening Movement with a New York City premiere of CONFETTI.

The premiere honors the mission of Dyslexia Awareness Month and celebrates the first of many Ambassadors who are spreading the uplifting message of CONFETTI by hosting a screening in their workplaces, education centers and community spaces.

The premiere event will feature a red carpet, screening, and reception, presented by New York State Senator James Skoufis and the Golden Trailer Awards. Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Amy Irving, who plays Helen in the film, will attend as well as former Presidential candidate and founder of the Forward Party, Andrew Yang, who will moderate a post-screening Q&A with director Ann Hu and producer Josh Green.

Andrew Yang says: “I’m thrilled to support Confetti’s mission, as the film and its message paves the way for parents, teachers, and peers to think differently about how we approach our education systems. My wife Evelyn and I know from raising our two boys that a one-size-fits-all classroom approach doesn't work for every child, and Confetti brings this to life beautifully.”

Please RSVP to join us at this special CONFETTI Premiere!

National Dyslexia Awareness Month is in full swing and the Confetti Movement is underway, with community screenings taking place across the country. CONFETTI continues to garner media interest - this week, Insider Magazine published this wonderful new article on CONFETTI titled, “I moved from China to the US because of my daughter's dyslexia. It was the only way to give her what she needed.”

Read the Insider interview with Ann Hu here!

Celebrating our Hosts
Hundreds more hosts are eager to harness the power of CONFETTI to inspire empathy, understanding and solidarity for those with dyslexia and learning differences. We are excited to reveal the latest line-up of incredible hosts, who have taken a stand and joined the movement:

Watch the powerful trailer for CONFETTI and read this wonderful Collider article here

Making an Impact
The Confetti Movement is already bringing huge new awareness around the importance of accepting and supporting those with learning differences so they can thrive. We are thrilled to share the recent news that a new Bill has been brought, sponsored by Senator Skoufis and Assembly Member Carroll to the senate that will change the way that thousands of students across the US are accommodated by the education system. Senate Bill S7418 is an act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring annual dyslexia screening for all children and providing intervention services for dyslexic children. Learn more about the Bill and lend your support for this important act by voting “Aye” on Senate Bill S7418.

Vote Aye on Senate Bill S7418!

Meet our CONFETTI Ambassadors!
Find out why they chose to host a screening of CONFETTI and the incredible impact it is having on their local community.

Dr Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is an Associate Professor of Practice at Teachers College, Columbia University, described by her students as being one of the most inspiring professors they have ever encountered.

Having emigrated to the US after surviving horrific genocide in her native Bosnia and Herzegovina, her scholarship focuses on the power of education to intervene against violence.

In 2021, she won a $750,000 Innovation Grant from the Department of Homeland Security’s Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program to launch a professional training program for educators to help prevent and interrupt radicalization in US schools.

Dr Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is dedicated to presenting CONFETTI to the largest audience of educators possible:

"We have invited the entire Teachers College-Columbia University community which includes 100,000 teachers, as well as the National Council of Urban Education Associations, which is the country's largest union with 3 million members who are educators. Across Columbia University, we will share the film with the Middle East Institute, Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies. Internationally, we will invite educators from
Columbia Global Centers in Tunisia, Morocco, and Jordan. Bosnia and Herzegovina's main state TV has also expressed interest in showing the movie."

Rev. Mike Chan is Executive Director of Ministries of the Chinese Christian Herald Crusades-NY. For 39 years, CCHC has continued to serve the disadvantaged Asian immigrant community in New York’s 5 boroughs.

Rev. Mike Chan on the relevancy of CONFETTI for his local community
"Being a Mission Pastor, my role is to bring the Chinese Immigrant families of New York into the mainstream society through general education, and to provide a variety of social services among inter-generations who encounter social and cultural maladjustments."

Hosting a CONFETTI screening in November will be the perfect opportunity to bring together the families he serves, to spread awareness of dyslexia and to show people that support is available whenever they need it.

We are so grateful that Dr Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and Rev. Mike Chan have decided to become Ambassadors of the Confetti Movement, and we are inspired by their incredible efforts to bring the power of CONFETTI to hundreds of educators and families!

Join the Movement
If you’re ready to add your voice to the future of education, to show your support for those with learning differences and bring together your community - join the CONFETTI 1000 Community Screenings Movement and become a CONFETTI Ambassador today!

Learn more about the film and how to host a CONFETTI Screening

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