I wanted to include an editor’s pick so y’all, our beautiful viewers, can get to know us, the amazing staff behind Mixed Mag. I also wanted to showcase our TV/Film/Theater picks because although it may feel like all you see are white stories or stories of the oppressor, our stories have been here for a…
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This review will contain some spoilers, but that shouldn’t really be a problem —Netflix reported over 63 million views of Shondaland’s Bridgerton in its first 28 days on the platform, which has to be some kind of record. Everyone and their mother seem to have been taken by the charm of its fluffy fantasy world,…
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This play was written as an imagined epilogue of the Chinese movie To Live (Huózhe) directed by Zhang Yimo (which was in turn adapted from Yu Hua’s novel of the same name). Cast of Characters Man: 30s. Chinese Place Open field, China Time 1990s ACT I SETTING: Open field. Scattered trees. One lone tombstone, one…
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Studio lighting, a lone electric keyboard, swishing jazz shoes, and clipboards galore. The youth theater audition room is a place where casting directors crucify, justify, and disqualify until they can excavate a golden cast list from the phenomenon that is American youth theater. As an Indian-American kid who spent my summers in theater camp, my…
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Renee Harrison is a Jamaican born actor and content creator. She also founded a digital curation of culture and resources for Black women-identifying theater artists, called Black Girls Do Theater. For my last feature of 2020, it was great to talk to an old classmate, friend and someone I truly admire. Renee and I got to talk about everything from growing up, to code switching and the future of theater. It was such a lovely interview that we almost talked for two hours!
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Image by Illustrator Divyakshi Kedia A beauty supply store, or at least the front and middle sections of one. Mannequin heads line the walls, their eyes directed down towards the aisles. They are almost all dark skinned, displaying a variety of different types of hair-purple wigs, long straight brown haired wigs, precise and controlled curly…
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Training in Predominantly White Institutions as a Non-White Artist This year’s pandemic experience challenged me to take serious note on the things that are most important to me, both as an artist and as a citizen. So during the stay at home orders, I decided to start working towards one of them: earning my California…
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With the end of the bittersweet 2020, exploring the idea of growth, evolution, moving on, from an environmental and ecological perspective in TV and the lives it shows, can bring forward a diverse connotation. Have we renounced trees? Greenery? Flowers? Has concrete taken over our psychogeography and thus forsooth exists an existential burden of walls,…
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Synopsis: In this city everyone dreams in secret. Technical descriptions: Filming – Iphone 8 Sound – Iphone 8 Instagram effect +3 aesthetic colors Video edition – Video shop application To view more of Carolina Castilho work go to : https://vimeo.com/user83752434 Carolina Castilho is a Brazilian filmmaker based in NYC. Her short movies “Entre os Ombros”…
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Photo by, Xicana Indígena Photographer, Textli Gallegos LUNA lays on the couch. The cable box clock reads 1:30am. LUNA I’ve been thinking. SOLEDAD I’ve been thinking… LUNA stares at SOLEDAD. LUNA Stop. SOLEDAD Go on…You’ve been thinking… LUNA I’ve been thinking that I think too much. SOLEDAD Okay… LUNA You don’t think that’s weird? SOLEDAD…
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