Sinking Ship Entertainment Unveils Discover@Home Program

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Sinking Ship Entertainment has created new digital content in support of Dino Dana The Movie to provide to museums and science centers through its new Discover@Home program.

“When COVID-19 sent everyone home, we paused and tried to figure out how we could help our museum and science center partners,” said Jennifer Lee Hackett, manager of museum and non-theatrical sales at Sinking Ship Entertainment. “Discover@Home provides free, easy-to-access assets for our partners’ young visitors and their families.”

Due to COVID-19 and the consequent theater closures, the screenings of the shorter museum version of Dino Dana The Movie have been put on hold until institutions reopen. In the meantime, museum visitors can now access new digital Dino Dana content that includes a suite of assets featuring a Dino Dana podcast, an “Ask a Paleontologist” video series, educational activity worksheets and other free promotional opportunities.

The podcast will center on Dana as she teams up with Dino experts to discover new dinosaurs and solve new experiments. The “Ask a Palaeontologist” video series features paleontologists from around the world from different museums, and is a partnership with the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP). Discover@Home will be available for free to all museum, science centers and other educational institutions.

Kathy Thomas, director of The Connectory and Community Services at the NGCP, said: “When approached by Sinking Ship Entertainment for a partnership on their “Ask a Paleontologist” video series we reached out to our Girls Advisory Board to garner interest. The girls were eager to participate and had no problem coming up with a list of questions they wanted to ask. Each girl video recorded and submitted their own questions for the series. The Girls Advisory Board is made up of young women that help NGCP review and provide feedback on current NGCP initiatives and assist in informing the future direction of the NGCP.”