“Assimilate”

“Assimilate” Chosen as the Mobile Movie of the Year

Twenty twenty-one was grim in many ways. But on the bright side, during the past 12 months we watched numerous films that advanced the art of mobile moviemaking. Selecting one as the Mobile Movie of the Year was challenging. That said, for the editors of MobileMovieMaking, “Assimilate” made the strongest case for bringing home the…

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Prize-winning Short Challenges the Melting Pot Metaphor

The metaphor of the melting pot is usually seen as something positive. It refers to people with various backgrounds being mixed together in order to create a strong, unified population whose members are more alike than different.  But there is a hidden assumption in the process, namely that the transformed individuals will abandon their previous…

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