The Scalzi Family Foundation is Donation Matching for the Documentary “One Act,” Directed by Pamela Ribon

It’s fair to say that Pamela Ribon and I have come up together in the world. Back in the before times, she and I both started blogging when blogs were still called “online journals,” and our first novels came out close to each other. Since then she’s become a force in animation, working on story and screenplays for Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet and the animated short My Year of Dicks, for which she received an Oscar nomination, which is pretty damn cool, if you ask me. For a quarter of a century now we’ve stayed friends, supported each other, and celebrated our successes. Pamela grew up in Texas, which is home to the UIL One Act, the largest theatrical competition in the world. Students from all over that state create one act plays and present them along with students from other schools, moving up the levels toward the finals. Pamela turned her filmmaker eye to one year of the competition, following the students and teachers as they created and competed, with all the tears and…