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.
The Global Search for Education: Eveline Levin’s Unharnessed Explores a Rehabilitation Program for Youth Survivors of Sex Trafficking.
This month, audiences can screen Unharnessed on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel. Documenting the connection between human and horse, Unharnessed explores a unique rehabilitation program, Equine Assisted Therapy, for youth who are survivors of or are at risk of sex trafficking.
The Global Search for Education: Tim Nackashi’s Film Focuses on a Family Reunion Either Side of the US-Mexico Border
A brief stretch of border fence known as Friendship Park is a place where families are allowed to touch fingertips through the wall while agents look the other way. This month, audiences can screen Through The Wall, directed by Tim Nackashi, on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel.
In Siroun Webcast Youth Share Stories and Ideas with Global Peers on the Armenian Genocide
What is it like living through a mass genocide and what can we learn from it? The Global Nomads Group (GNG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to motivating cross-cultural learning by connecting youth virtually with their peers around the world and using (in this case) film as a prompt for teaching tolerance. In GNG’s film,Siroun Webcast, now screening on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel, students from the United...
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