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Following the creation of the 70th Anniversary issue, 44 Pages constructs a portrait of the cultural phenomenon, Highlights Magazine, introducing the quirky people who diligently and passionate produce this publication - from the first editorial meeting to its delivering in homes nationwide. Family-owned since 1946, Highlights remains an American icon, revealing the rich, tragic history, the state of childhood, the impact of technology, and the journey of the publication for "the world's most important people" - children. (Sarasota Film Festival)
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This documentary about Highlights, a magazine intended for children ages 6-12, progressively focuses on a full range of questions and challenges associated with creating content for children, especially the sincere ambition to provide quality, through the arc of creating a new issue and filling up its sections. The film thus opens up numerous topics arising from the pillars of creativity, responsibility and progressivity, while relating them to the connection with contemporary norms and trends, which are generally contradictory. At its core, 44 Pages shows a unique private medium owned by a family business, which, thanks to strict adherence to tradition, lives up to the ideals and qualities associated with public media. The documentary shows Highlights as a phenomenon where the corporate structure comes into symbiosis with values, as well as with creative intuition and a personal code of conduct, which we usually find rather in small production companies and not in companies with global representation. The film succeeds thanks to the fact that it focuses on the small group of people who put the magazine together in the homey environment of the former family-owned company and no longer venture into the open-office wasteland of the corporate headquarters that house the inhuman machinery of distribution, marketing, new media and foreign localisation. Thanks to this, the film can remain focused on the story about creative people with a sincere interest in stimulating children’s curiosity and imagination in an ever-changing, problematic world. The insight into the challenge for the magazine’s individual creators to stimulate children in a positive manner without the necessity of closing their eyes to difficult and problematic reality, to help them find their bearings in this world without foisting something on them or lying to them, remains particularly inspiring.
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