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Dec. 19, 2023

*Encore* Growing Up With the March Sisters: Little Women (1994)

Screen Cares ' co-hosts, Jennie and Sarah, discuss how a movie can become a cinematic portrayal of one's ancestry and how movies can grow with a viewer over time. The story of the four March sisters has held a place in the …
Dec. 5, 2023

*Encore* Surviving the Suburbs: Pleasantville (1998)

What does the punk band, The Descendents, folk musician and activist Malvina Reynolds' song "Little Boxes" and the 1998 movie, Pleasantville, have in common? They all spark a conversation about finding your place in a world …
Nov. 21, 2023

A Place for Love, Hunting for Meaning in Grief: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

Screen Cares hosts, Sarah & Jennie invite listeners to join them for an emotional conversation about how love can fuel both grief and healing. Jennie uses the movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) to process the loss of he…
Nov. 7, 2023

Nimona (2023): Being An Ally is the Best Way to "Be Enough"

Screen Cares ' hosts, Sarah & Jennie, received a listener question for this week's episode: "My children care about inclusivity and equity but express that they aren't sure if their individual efforts matter, and express tha…
Oct. 31, 2023

Close the Loop: The Babadook (2014)

Happy Halloween! It's the final episode of Screen Cares' special October series, Screen Scares. This week, we're highlighting a horror film by the incredible writer and director, Jennifer Kent. Sarah believes Kent's film, Th…
Oct. 24, 2023

The Changing Landscape of Fear: The Witches (1990)

As a child, the idea that a boy mouse can save the world from witches seems empowering and plausible, while the specter of being trapped in a painting-never to experience life- presents a greater threat. As an adult, fears c…

Recent Blog Posts

Take Back Your Quality Time with Family Movie Nights

Every day, I strive to be the kind of parent who can adjust with the ever-changing developmental needs of my children with agility and grace; never trying to hold my children back for my benefit, never trying to compel them to accomplishments and de…

7 Movie Selection Resources for Your Next Movie Night

7 Movie Selection Resources for Your Next Movie Night Poltergeist (1982) is the film that taught me how very little I knew about movie ratings and how very much I needed to expand the range of resources I use to evaluate if and with whom I should w…

Don't Just Watch "Black Barbie: A Documentary," See It.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I often thought about my personhood and the standard “who am I” questions. When I was in my thirties, I reconciled the earlier decade’s ponderings, with new thoughts about career, family, goals …

About the Hosts

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Sarah Woolverton-Mohler (she/her)

My Kind of Weird Productions, LLC Executive Producer, Co-Host of the podcasts Screen Cares and Weirdschooling

Sarah (she/her) is an always-caffeinated, quad-skating thinker and now, a Producer with a capital “P”. While her professional background was in the non-profit sector, Sarah now invests her time in educating her children and in producing podcasts. You can nearly always find Sarah planning trips to her beloved Rhode Island, playing roller derby or consuming spicy food, music and books with reckless abandon. Sarah cares about caring and believes that sending snail mail and being kind are unappreciated and dying art forms. Family, film and friendship are Sarah’s passions, motivations, lifeline and her foundation. When she isn’t chatting with Jennie about movies and “this thing called life” (special shout-out to Prince for making introspection sexy again), Sarah happily spends her time with her weird and wonderful children, her quietly hilarious hubby and her big, smelly dog.

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Jennie Ziverk Carr (she/her)

My Kind of Weird Productions, LLC Executive Producer and Co-Host of the podcasts Screen Cares and Weirdschooling

Jennie (she/her) feels as comfortable camping and mucking through the backwoods as she does exploring museums and haunting coffee shops. Prior to making the choice to homeschool her children and help organize her local educational community, Jennie studied Art History and Film, facilitated early childhood and outdoor education, and taught middle school U.S. History and arts integration in Houston, TX. She has a passion for writing, cooking, and connecting to others through the arts. Jennie’s supportive husband would say she has too many books and velvet chairs, and her usually muddy children are often upset that she doesn’t let them have breakfast, second breakfast, and elevensies every day, but despite her perceived faults, her family is her home and she is theirs.