Finding Your Inner Soul and Self in Rip Tide
Rip Tide is a coming-of-age film that teaches viewers about finding yourself and reconnecting with surroundings.

Witness the colorful, blessed journey of adoption. Take part in an American couple's life changing moments during their month long stay in the country of Kazakhstan. Walk through the process...experience the realities and intimate emotions involved as they meet their daughter for the first time, marvel at the sights and sounds of this far off land and fall in love with beautiful children of the orphan house at Semi-Palatinsk. The film makers are the adopting couple in this film.
Rip Tide is a coming-of-age film that teaches viewers about finding yourself and reconnecting with surroundings.
The power to function. As people, we are richly blessed to have the wide ranging scope of what we can accomplish…physically and mentally…that aid in everything we desire to strive for and, ideally, accomplish. However, what if someone was experiencing daily life with these elements….only in a more muted manner?
Now that we're officially halfway through Hispanic Heritage Month, let's look ahead at movies featuring Hispanic & Latine representation through the rest of 2021.
The gentle, emotional nuances of Evan’s coming-of-age story would have been so beneficial to have incorporated into the life of a POC character. Showing a Black, Asian or Latino young man that is afforded the space to be vulnerable, flawed and sensitive while driving a compelling and widely-loved narrative would have been a game changer.
“Reboot” can be crass and has much room to improve, but with investments of time and care, could flower out of the seed of a vision.
Joker is a compelling, character-driven, psychological tale that has a message behind the madness.