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Parenthood

Parenthood is a comedy/drama that will be returning for its 5th season in the Fall of 2013.  Parenthood bravely and delicately take on the complexities of family life leaving viewers full of emotion after every episode like all good comedy/drama stories should! In addition to other major topics (cancer, post traumatic stress disorder and more), this series follows an interracial marriage and their child, the process of a transracial adoption and has explored an interracial teenage dating situation.

http://www.nbc.com/parenthood/

You can catch up on past seasons of Parenthood on Netflix.

Jeff Chiba Stearns – Filmmaker

Jeff Chiba Stearns is a multi award-winning animation and documentary filmmaker.  Born in Kelowna, BC, of Japanese and European heritage, he graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in Film Animation in 2001. Soon after he founded Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., a Vancouver based boutique animation studio specializing in the creation of animated, documentary, and experimental films aimed at both children and adults that combine different philosophical and social elements together to create humorous, entertaining, and inspiring stories.  The studio also specializes in the creation of innovative stop motion and classically animated commercials and has created broadcast spots and viral videos for Sharpie, Anythink, Living Blueprint, Generali, Ministry of Health BC, 3M International, and Post-it Note.  His animated shorts, Kip and Kyle (2000), The horror of Kindergarten (2001), What Are You Anyways?(2005), Yellow Sticky Notes (2007), and Ode to a Post-it Note (2010) have screened in hundreds of film festivals around the world, garnered 32 awards, and broadcast on the CBC, Discovery Latin America, Sundance Channel, Movie Central, Encore Ave., Shaw, and Movieola.

“Kin” or (킨)

“Kin” or (킨) is a short film that tells the story of 21 year old Afro-Korean Jake. Jake’s African-American mother sends him to Korea soon after he turns 16 in hopes that he will learn more about his “other” culture and finally meet his Korean father. Five years later, Jake still remains confused about his identity, relationship with his father, and struggles with feeling isolated in the homogeneous society of Korea. Here’s their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Kinthemovie?ref=hl

Cheerios Commercial featuring a Mixed Family

In late May 2013 Cheerios aired a commercial that features a Mixed family, and shortly afterwards Youtube had to disable comments because of all of the racist remarks the ad received. We are so excited that our stories are being told in the media – head on over to the Youtube page and ‘like’ the commercial if you want to show your support!

Prom

This story of the first segregated prom at a Georgia high school has been eye opening to the continued segregation that happens in this country.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/living/wilcox-integrated-prom/index.html

What I want to know is…where did the mixed teens go to prom all these years?  What other stories do you have of cases where societies monoracial boundaries, have left mixed youth having to choose one part of their entire self?

Colour Me

Dir. Sherien Barsoum. 2011, 78 minutes, documentary

Colour Me is a feature documentary that follows motivational speaker Anthony McLean as he mentors high school students in Brampton, a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. Filmmaker Barsoum captures McLean’s fluid notions of ‘racial’ identity as he works with the students, and also explores his own family’s origins. Highly suitable for middle and high school aged classes.

Here’s a trailer for the film: