Meanwhile, April becomes obsessed with this new girl, who has dropped into their crowd from out of nowhere. Luke Spencer Roberts plays Ben, friend to both Nick and April, who finds himself stuck in the middle. Tough as she may be, April is devastated by Nick abandoning her (and confused by him still texting her). April still thinks they're going out, until one day she notices something horrifying: Nick posting pictures on his Instagram of him making out with another girl.Īpril is a pretty tough cookie, and judging from her mother (a very funny Jessica Hecht), and her trash-talking younger sister ( Addison Riecke), the apples all fall from the same tree. Nick is going to school locally in California. But when April gets into Boston University, all the way across the country from Los Angeles, things change. As the montage reveals in a quick succession of scenes, they're together for two years (basically a 40-year-marriage in high school years). SUPPORT & BUY THE MOVIE NOW: shebafilms."Banana Split" opens with a montage, a bold and not entirely successful choice, showing the falling-in-love, virginity-losing, and eventual old-married-couple-fighting of April (Marks) and her hottie boyfriend Nick ( Dylan Sprouse). For the English version of this module see “Bananas Unpeeled” and for the French version see Les Bananes Toutes Crues. Teachers are also urged to visit the Global Education Network / Le Réseau de l’éducation globale website where Banana Split is a core element in the teaching module on bananas. In addition to the guide, you can access Banana Stories/Histoires de Bananes online. Contact Shebandowan Films for more information about the Banana Split and the guide for teachers. The guide suggests ways in which the video can be used in class. These modules and Banana Stories/Histoires de Bananes can also be used by anyone interested in using the banana as point of discussion for globalization and related topics.Įvery copy of the video comes with a guide for teachers. For the English version of this module see "Bananas Unpeeled" and for the French version see Les Bananes Toutes Crues. Teachers can follow the links below to find a Global Education curriculum developed for the Ontario grade 12 Canadian and World Issues course. Banana Split is also a core element in the Global Education Network's teaching module on bananas. In addition, Banana Split was honoured by being included in the 2003 Ökomedia – International Environmental Film Festival travelling tour of Germany and by being selected for the Travelling World Community Film Festival. Filmed in Canada, the United States, Honduras and France, Banana Split explores the North/South split between Canadian consumers and the people whose lives revolve around the "curvaceous fruit from the herbaceous plant."īanana Split is the 2005 award winner for the "Best Feature Length Documentary" at the Latin America Environmental Media Festival in New Orleans, and it is also the 2004 winner of the Canadian International Development Agency's Deborah Fletcher Award of Excellence in Filmmaking on International Development. In the developing world, bananas rank behind rice, wheat and corn as the most important staple food crops. In addition to being a popular fruit in Canada, bananas are used as a staple food in more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries. Banana Split takes the viewer on a journey that begins with the hustle and bustle of a fruit market in Thunder Bay, Ontario and ends up with an examination of the daily challenges of life in Honduras. All this despite the fact that the nearest plantation is 5000 kilometres away and the banana is the most perishable fruit on our store shelves. In Canadian supermarkets bananas account for over 10% of total sales in the produce section and 1% of total sales. The banana is the cheapest fruit you can buy in Canada at any time of the year and Canadians eat approximately 3 billion bananas a year.
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