The Global Search for Education: Bard Musicians Keep Music Vibrant During the Pandemic
This month on the Planet Classroom Network, audiences can screen musicians from Bard College Conservatory of Music, Isabela Cruz-Vespa, Tobias Timofeyev and Oleg Timofeyev – the Korona Konsort – synchronously perform the first movement of a Telemann Trio Sonata in A minor.
The Global Search for Education: Director Catherine McCord on When She Knew She Was Gonna Be Okay
This month audiences can screen Catherine McCord’s film You’re Gonna Be Okay on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel.
The Global Search for Education: Director Juan Mejia Botero Addresses Rewriting Race History in America
Directed by Juan Mejia Botero, Abbeville: Lynching in America, can be screened on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel this month. The film documents the remarkable journey of a family and community to overcome a century of silence and a story about racial injustice and the healing power of truth.
The Global Search for Education: Directors Justin and Kristin Schaack on Falling in Love with Fairy Tail
This month audiences can screen Fairy Tail (curated for Planet Classroom by KIDS FIRST), a unique and comical short film directed, written and produced by Justin and Kristin Schaack. The film stars Leslie Vincent and Andy Rocco Kraft. In this story, a hopeless romantic falls for a rather surprising, and furry, companion. Viewers are taken through this young women’s daydream of her future with her new love, only to be met with a whole new surprise. Putting a fun twist on the common trope of love at first sight, Fairy Tail is an amusing tale that is entertaining to watch at any age.
The Global Search for Education: Director David Hutchinson on Why the Martial Arts Are Like the Gospel
This month audiences can view David Hutchinson’s The Gospel of Combat, a short documentary about an East African martial artist, Benedict “Ben Sensei” Kiyagi.
The Global Search for Education: Director Shayna Zaidi Gupta Wants Us to Focus on the Good and the Bad Points of Plastic
Scientists believe that 8.8 million tons of plastic wind up in our oceans every day. Single use plastic accounts for more than 40 percent of plastic trash and this is damaging our planet. Plastic has many benefits and that’s why we use it for bike helmets, car airbags, food containers, baby bottles, syringes and more. So is plastic a bad thing or a good thing for our world?