Material Bodies: There Is More Underneath than What You See
By: Esmeralda Hernandez De La Torre Material Bodies is a short film directed by Dorothy Allen-Pickard that focuses on the perspectives of disabled people who have prosthetic legs. The participants in the film share their experiences and feelings towards society’s view of them and use certain words that really help the audience fully understand their point of view. Allen-Pickard also does an amazing job in using different forms...
What Do You Know about the Tesla Gigafactory?
By Jake Mascolo What Do You Know about the Tesla Gigafactory? Is a short video by Keegan Haskin that effectively discusses electric cars and gigafactories, their benefits for the future, and the issues that need to be resolved. Haskin highlights the topics being discussed by using interesting source selections, such as a Leonardo DiCaprio interview with Elon Musk. Musk explains how a network of gigafactories could reduce emissions...
It’s Easy to Live in Denial
By Grace Graham The Film Living in Denial, directed by Barbara Whiting, is an interesting short story that explores the ever growing problem of Fake News Conspiracists by playfully, but poignantly, creating a world with a real life ‘Town of Denial’. Within this town lives people like the Mayor, the Reverend, the Dentist and many others, all of whom are experiencing great hardships. Some members, such as the Dentist, have fled for...
What is the Role of COP27’s Youth Envoy?
By Jake Mascolo In What is the Role of COP27’s Youth Envoy?, Keana Whisby touches on the impact of ongoing climate change as well as the fast approaching COP27. We are introduced to Omnia El Omrani, the official COP27 Youth Envoy for the UN Climate Change Parties, who serves under President designate H.E. Sameh Shoukry and whose mission is to continue to motivate young people to take action in the fight against global warming....
Dear Mrs. President
By Avril Rowland Dear Mrs. President is a short animated adaptation based on a book of the same name written by Ana Maria Medici. Over the course of its short runtime, Dear Mrs. President manages to convey the power representation can have on children, how they view themselves, and what they are capable of. Representation and role models serve to strengthen and affirm people’s perceptions of themselves, and are especially important...
What Do You Know About Mechanical Trees?
By Tiffani Stitz This short film directed by GuiJing Jiang educates its audience on the impact of global warming, while also providing a very innovative solution to the problem: Mechanical Trees. Jiang begins by focusing on global warming and how detrimental its impacts have been on the environment. The idea of Mechanical Trees is then introduced. This technology and its potentially positive environmental impacts are...
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