![]() I am continually blown away by the variety of unique voices in the program, and working with them on the ‘Let’s Change The World’ music video demonstrated the kids’ ability to apply their skills as storytellers to a whole new platform. All of these kids have their own stories and KITS nurtures them into storytellers. “KITS provides them with a truly transformative platform, where they can channel their experiences within the foster system and life in general into films that represent their identity. “I have been working with the foster youth of Kids In The Spotlight for the past six years now, watching so many of them come of age as actors, writers and future directors,” shares director David Mahmoudieh. (Rodney actually won the KITS National Foster Youth Screenwriting Contest with his script Bully, which David Mahmoudieh also directed). Rodney Jackson-Brown, another KITS foster youth, is an aspiring writer and actor, who helped conceptualize and appeared in the video on both shoot days. For instance, Santiago Chavez is a KITS youth and budding director, and shadowed the video’s director David Mahmoudieh on the shoot on the first day. “The experience our youth had in bringing Ringo Starr’s positive message to life through film and music is a memory they will have forever.”īoth during pre-production and on the production days, many of the kids contributed ideas for set-ups, wardrobe choices, etc. “The collaborative effort between Kids In The Spotlight and Ringo Starr to create the music video for ‘Let’s Change The World,’ is a perfect example of the opportunities our organization strives to bring youth in foster care year round,” shares KITS Executive Director, Tige Charity. On the shoot days, which took place in Los Angeles on location by Starr’s Peace Sculpture in Beverly Hills Park, and at the Standard Vision Studios in Glendale, they were able to shadow and assist in all areas including directing, lighting, choreography and photography. The kids were involved in the entire process, including a zoom meeting with Ringo where they discussed the concept and shared some of their ideas, such as using a huge screen displaying images, fire-fighters putting out fires, smoke machines, and showing how this video could become an anthem of acceptance and fighting the effects of global warming. KITS was the perfect organization to partner with to fulfill Ringo’s vision for the video. We have got to change, and I believe we can. Half the world is on fire and the other half is under water. ![]() ![]() I believe we should leave this planet in better shape than we found it for our kids, and right now we are not doing that. He’s still the finest bass player around as far as I’m concerned.“Let’s Change The World! I wanted to make this video with kids because they are our future and this is for them. I always look at Paul with a lot of love and appreciation. “A lot of people write about our experiences but they didn’t ever get it right. “When we look at each other, we’re the only two people who experienced that on the planet,” he said. When we asked if it was comforting seeing his old cohort, comparing them to a rarefied club like astronauts, Ringo, 71, gleefully started warbling, “I’m an astronaut and I’m okay,’ to the tune of ‘I’m a lumberjack,’ but then he does admit that the two do share an extraordinary bond. He was telling me he was doing it a bit dramatic then he got to this whispering type and it’s a beautiful rendition of all those songs.” In The Beatles of course John had THAT voice, Paul had several voices and I couldn’t place it at all, it’s like a new voice that he’d found. I was trying to recollect if I’d heard that voice before because Paul has many voices. Nobody knows everybody.” But he does correctly note, “We’re still selling more records than most people and we’re selling them to the kids.”Īnd yes, Ringo has heard Paul’s new album and unsurprisingly thinks it’s “great.” The two got together when Paul was in town for the Grammys and went to visit his old pal while he was recuperating. “And there’s always going to be someone picking up on it. “There’s always going to be some kid somewhere saying, ‘Who the hell is that guy?'” he told Billboard.
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