The Global Search for Education: Director of Rainshadow Hopes Film Will Be a Springboard for Learning Reform
What are the ways society should measure success other than testing and numbers? Kari Barber’s Rainshadow film won her the Best Nevada Filmmaker award from the state’s largest film festival. The film (curated for Planet Classroom by KIDS FIRST Film Festival), now screening on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel, follows a Nevada community charter school called Rainshadow. Unlike other schools, Rainshadow embraces and focuses on creativity, which helps its students find purpose and meaning and an outlet to express themselves. However, low test scores make the institution a target for closure.
The Global Search for Education: Adam Hersko-RonaTas Explores Iceland’s Transition Into A Globalized World
This month, audiences can screen the acclaimed documentary, Scaling Iceland (Curated by NFFTY) on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel.
The Global Search for Education: Director Lisa Rideout Focuses on Transgender Sex Workers
This month on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel, audiences can screen Lisa Rideout’s acclaimed documentary One Leg In, One Leg Out. It is the true story of Transgender sex worker Iman Brown. After a decade as a sex worker, Iman dreams of becoming a social worker to help her transgender community members. As she explores taking classes to be a social worker while still doing sex work, One Leg In, One Leg Out questions...
The Global Search for Education: Luke Azille Presents His Powerful Poem on Why Black Lives Matter
“You see there’s more to me than what your eyes see even though I see what you see when you look at me.”
The Global Search for Education: COMMFFEST Uses Film, Art and Music to Educate on Tolerance
Sandie de Freitas is the founder and president of Commffest Global Community Film Festival, an organization she started in 2005 after working in film distribution and seeing a great number of “unappreciated films” made by independent filmmakers being shelved.
The Global Search for Education: Director Sangmok Lee on The Mime He Created for Love
This month audiences can screen a short film called The Mime from South Korean Director Sangmok Lee on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel. Mime is a form of entertainment that dates back to Roman times. One of the most famous of all mime artists was Marcel Marceau. The most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I, Charlie Chaplin is also remembered for his use of mime in his comedy routines.
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