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with that, let s bring in our esteemed panel. maxwell, most of zerlina on peacock. host of msnbc s, and elise jordan, republican strategist. let s go right to the first revvie award, the ridicu-list. these are the events that i still can t believe happened in a year as bizarre as 2021. here are a few of my picks to get us started. facebook goes meta. stuck in the suez. and trump: the blog. facebook s name changed. the social network found its under fire from the right and the left over user privacy and rampant misinformation, and mark zuckerberg decides the solution is to rebrand the company to meta. i don t know exactly what the metaverse is, but i m guessing it has something to do with having your head in the clouds or how about that ship that got stuck for days in the suez canal? disrupting trade routes all over the world, it seemed like a random event back in march, but little did we know it was a preview of global shipping tie-ups and even a shortage of christmas ....
has showcased more than 100 films from 9 countries. dozens of our films in our festival have gone on to be nominated for emmys and oscars, including the winner of the academy award for short documentary. this year we have some of the best films we ve ever been privileged to showcase. they tackle some of the biggest issues of the last 18 months from democracy and covid to race and the teaching of history. you re about to see three films here, plus my conversations with two of the directors. first up is the facility, directed by seth freed-wesz ler. later in the program, you ll see meltdown in dixie and golden age karate. we hope you enjoy. my name is nilsan. i m originally from honduras. my father is a citizen. my wife is a citizen. my son is being born here. my mom is a legal resident. i ve been here for 20 years. so, what is the point of i.c.e. having me here for? covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. italy, a country of 60 million people, is now eff ....
i don t even know how to explain 2020. it was a crazy, crazy year. bad things happen in philadelphia. bad things. former vice president joe biden to become the 46th president of the united states. i had no idea what we would be in for. i thought it was a fake. i thought my friends were messing with me. a philadelphia landscaping company has been thrust into the national spotlight. the entire thing was supposed to be anonymous. just put me in shock to see my name on the president s twitter. we probably got thousands of calls. you have 950 new messages. we had a lot of haters. i remember asking, did we make a mistake? there were just way too many trees. here s the other thing, and i think we ll discuss this with the board when we have the zoom. my name s marie siravo. i m 65 and i m the president of four seasons total landscaping in northeast philadelphia. we go grounds maintenance and irrigation, seeding, flowers, snow removal. it s kind of boring. ....
rollout but it s still ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking with dr. fauci and his guidance and what to do with the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating, it s an interesting tenet of vierology, the only way to mutate is if you allow it to replicate. when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3,000 to 4,000 new a day, that s when you get the dangerous mutations. one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in this country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking. the distancing. avoiding congregant settings. get vaccinated. the vaccination and public health measures will bring the level of virus down so low, you won t give it a chance to mutate. that s what you need to do. there s the other side of the c ....
in the white house called my brother s keeper, now part of the obama foundation. its mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color. it is a deeply personal mission for president obama who grew up hardly knowing his own father and who by his own account didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. we dropped in on the former president in chicago in a high school where he was visiting a group of young men who had been part of my brother s keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? well, probably i m a little too gray haired and old to be going door to door like i used to plus the secret service still follows me around so i am pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the thi ....