Queens Is a Journey into the Lives of Seattle Drag Queens
By Ethan Thomas Drag culture continues to be vibrant and dynamic thanks to the performers, artists, and designers who keep pushing the envelope of this art form. In Western culture, Drag performers can be traced as far back as ancient Greece. The documentary Queens takes a detailed look into the lives of 4 Seattle-based drag queens, illustrating the diverse ways that Drag has influenced and affected their lives. We learn about...
Find Your Purpose Is About Looking Inward and Understanding Who You Are
By Will Hite Find Your Purpose is an XTalks Video presentation by a high-school student in Malawi called Esther (curated for the Planet Classroom Network by XTalksWorldListens). Esther’s talk focuses not on ‘how’ to do something, but rather how ‘not’ to do something. Namely, how not to give up on one’s dreams. “You are black, you are so small, you can’t do this unlike people like us.” The orator opens her speech by...
We are Rohingya Story Echoes Those of the Other 700,000 Refugees Forced to Flee their Homes
By Will Hite We Are Rohingya is a brief but comprehensive gaze into the horrors that an ethnic and religious minority are dealing with in Myanmar. Director Melissa Pracht’s powerful documentary is juxtaposed with the hopefulness that her subjects maintain throughout their challenging journey to find a place where they can live in peace. The Rohingya are the Muslim population of Myanmar that originally hail from Bangladesh. Both...
A Young Girl Makes a Powerful Case for Protecting Nature
By Julian Cao Directed by Adam Tyler, Kids Who Save the World: Clean Air, is a three-minute documentary film that follows and interviews Arya, a little girl who frequently explores Epping Forest in England. Clips of Arya traversing Epping Forest embody the exquisite beauty, vibrancy, and delicacy of the forest and of nature as a whole. Quite notably, the crispness of the cinematography does a masterful job of capturing the serene...
Koga and Friends: Shelter Centers on How to Use Breathing and Kung Fu to Overcome Fear
By Ethan Thomas Koga and Friends creators David Friedman and Philip Kholos are back with a new adventure of the boy Koga. Koga is a young yoga and kung fu master, always curious and always learning about the world around him. The topics of getting stitches after being injured and rescuing harmed animals can be intimidating for kids, but Koga and Friends: Shelter provides a safe and entertaining platform to be introduced to them. This...
Friendship, Passion, Loss, and Isolation Are the Themes of Quaranteened, a Virtual Musical about Teens Trying to Stay Connected in a World Asking Them to Isolate.
By Will Hite Theater Bug, a non profit organization based in Nashville, and MA2LA collaborated to produce the explosive, groundbreaking Quaranteened, a virtual musical about the lives of a high school choir group who strive to put on a virtual show while also figuring out how to help out a grieving classmate. The musical was written and produced by teenagers living in quarantine in Nashville during the pandemic. Very few pieces...
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