Featuring
Award-Winning Programming, Favorite Sesame
Street Friends and Celebrity Guest Appearances
"SISU Home Entertainment, publisher and
distributor of the award-winning, popular Shalom Sesame DVD series ,
announces a year-long Shalom Sesame DVD Club designed to
give families a variety of discount purchasing plans to fit their specific needs
.
Lovable, furry
Grover and celebrity host Anneliese van der Pol (That’s So Raven, Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast) travel to Israel
to meet new people and learn new things in this 12-part DVD series co-produced
by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit
educational organization behind Sesame Street, and
Israel’s Channel HOP! Each 30-minute, live-action and animated
DVD focuses on storylines drawn from Jewish cultural traditions, highlighting
lessons on Hebrew letters and words, unique sites in Israel,
and Jewish values. Through Sesame Street
characters, celebrities and stories, viewers learn about Jewish traditions,
culture and holidays such as Purim, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Guest appearances by celebrity talent include Debra Messing,
Achinoam Nini, Mira Awad, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christina Applegate and Greg
Kinnear.
SISU is offering
several different programs within the Shalom Sesame DVD Club, which is
free to join. Members can opt for
purchasing the entire DVD series or single titles for a 15% discount off the SRP
of $14.95, in a single shipment or on a monthly basis similar to the famed book
clubs. For specific information about the club and its various plans, visit
www.sisuent.com.
“We are pleased
to make this very popular series available through the Shalom Sesame DVD Club, which offers
discounts and exclusive benefits, free of charge, to its members,” said Haim
Scheininger, president of SISU Home Entertainment, Inc. “In addition to the DVD
series, three million viewers have watched its PBS broadcast and millions more
are expected to watch Shalom Sesame’s
“Chanukah the Missing Menorah” episode on PBS this December. With over two
million views on Facebook and over one million YouTube visits, families are
embracing Shalom Sesame for its
award-winning content and educational values.”
The 12 DVDs in
the series are: “Welcome to Israel,” “Chanukah: The Missing Menorah,” Shabbat
Shalom, Grover!,” “Grover Plants a Tree,” “Mitzvah on the Street,” “Be Happy,
It’s Purim!,” “It’s Passover, Grover!,” “Grover Learns Hebrew,” “Countdown to
Shavuot,” “The Sticky Shofar,” “Monsters in the Sukkah,” and
“Adventures in Israel.”
Awards include
The CINE Golden Eagle Award in the Professional Telecast Fiction Division.
(2011), the Hugo Television Award Certificate of Merit: Children’s Program for
“It’s Passover, Grover!” (2011), CINE Special Jury Award (2012): Best Production
in the “Children’s Entertainment” Category specifically for the “Chanukah the
Missing Menorah,” and the Dr. Toy Best Pick Award (2010).
Each Shalom Sesame DVD includes a wealth of
over 20 minutes of bonus extras including trailers, sneak peeks of all titles,
Grover’s Video Player (music videos), sing-alongs and Karaoke of favorite tunes
like “Aleph Bet Song,” "Rosh Hashanah Hannah" (a spoof of Hannah Montana) and
the famous “Rubber Duckie” song (in Hebrew!) among others. A highlight of
Grover’s Video Player on Adventures in
Israel is “There Must Be Another Way” by Achinoam Nini, Mira Awad and Shalom Sesame friends– the song that
represented Israel in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest(in Hebrew, Arabic and
English).
For more
information, including materials for parents and educators, please visit
www.shalomsesame.org. For clips from the series, visit the
brand new Shalom Sesame YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/
About Sesame
Workshop:
Sesame Workshop is
the nonprofit educational organization that revolutionized children’s television
programming with the landmark Sesame Street. The Workshop
produces local Sesame
Street programs, seen in over 150 countries, and
other acclaimed shows including The Electric Company, to help bridge the
literacy gap. Beyond television, the Workshop produces content for multiple
media platforms on a wide range of issues including literacy, health and
military deployment. Initiatives meet specific needs to help young children and
families develop critical skills, acquire healthy habits and build emotional
strength to prepare them for lifelong learning. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org.
About SISU
Entertainment
SISU Home
Entertainment, Inc. was established in 1988 as a publisher and distributor of
Israeli and Jewish video, audio, book and multimedia properties. The company’s
goal has always been to make its products easily available to the Jewish market,
whether directly from SISU/KOL AMI or through various Judaica shops, major
retail stores and websites. SISU’s
extensive selection of videos includes the best children’s programs available
for the Jewish and Israeli consumer. It also includes documentaries and feature
films, as well as programs on Jewish life and entertainment, social issues, the
Bible and the Holocaust. SISU’s music selection includes everything from
legendary Israeli performers to up-and-coming Jewish artists from Israel
and the U.S. SISU caters both to secular and religious music consumers. SISU is a major supplier of
Jewish/Israeli programming to major national distributors, retailers, catalogues
and other venues in the U.S. http://www.sisuent.com.
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