192. Fathers, Films, and Freedom of Expression - TOTM Face to Face #22 - with Wenceslao and Andres

Author: Ashanti Branch - Taking Off The Mask
Published: Mon 13 May 2024
Episode Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/branch-speaks/episodes/192--Fathers--Films--and-Freedom-of-Expression---TOTM-Face-to-Face-22---with-Wenceslao-and-Andres-e2jckds

Two high schoolers come together in this TOTM Face to Face conversation. Our host, Wenceslao, is joined by Andres, a senior at Skyline High School in Oakland, CA, and a member of Youth Beat. ➡️➡️➡️ Youth Beat is an incredible organization that provides free digital media instruction for disadvantaged Bay Area students.

A future filmmaker, Andres finds common ground and shared humanity with Wenceslao. They share an interest in arts and self-expression; they both have biological fathers that live in Texas rather than with them in the Bay Area; they love accessorizing with rings and bracelets; and they both miss their grandparents.

(0:00) Intro

(8:22) Front of Andres’s mask

(10:54) Front of Wenceslao’s mask

(11:56) Back of Andres’s mask

(14:17) Back of Wenceslao’s mask

(15:25) A poem about beauty from Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet”

(18:55) Card #1 from Ever Forward Club’s The Adventure Card Game

(22:52) Card#2 from the Adventure Card Game

(27:59) Card #3 from the Adventure Card Game

(29:50) Andres’s love of filmmaking

(44:28) How Youth Beat and The Ever Forward Club could collaborate

(48:57) Closing remarks