Local filmmakers on display in Napa Home-grown talent gets a chance…
The News Review:
- Local filmmakers on display in Napa Home-grown talent gets a chance…
- Friday Forum
- Fear creeps in
- Grades, more on schools’ Web site
Local filmmakers on display in Napa Home-grown talent gets a chance…
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 29, 2005
Powers had just finished “Magic Hat: One Size Fits All,” an absurd tale about hit men and a magic hat. He filmed the story in black and white and used “inner-titles” in the style of silent movies. Buddies from a college band, Animal Liberation Orchestra, at UC Santa Barbara, where Powers was studying film, had provided music for the movie. “Magic Hat” was showing at Napa’s Uptown Cinemas, a venue for the festival. The band was playing in the lobby. “Suddenly we lost sound for the film,” Powers recalled. “I was back there in the projection room trying to fix things…
“Matthew was like a film fanatic,” Ashton said. “He was so energetic and enthusiastic and brought many friends and colleagues into the world of film. “Having a home-grown segment and featuring local filmmakers is very important for reasons other than the obvious,” Ashton added. “As in the case of Matthew, sometimes the filmmakers are very, very innovative. They have taken the cinematic language to a profound, if not new, place. ” Carducci recalled attending the film festival with her parents. “I remember going to the Wine Country Film Festival one year when it was being held out at Mondavi,” Carducci said.
Friday Forum
abc.net.au – Jul 29, 2005
You said that London could be replicated here. Why were you so clear on that point? ADEM SOMYUREK: Well, for two reasons, Maxine. Firstly, the fact that these terrorists were home-grown. I, as it turns out, naively believed that Muslims brought up in countries like the UK and Australia could not possibly partake in this type of activity, this brutal terror. I thought, well, being educated in Australia and being socialised, or being educated in England or Australia and being socialised, according to our society, I thought, “Well, this home-grown terror is not going to happen,” but boy, was I wrong. Now, I guess the other aspects.
Fear creeps in
Taipei Times – Jul 29, 2005
The half-certainties we had let ourselves adopt were shattered. We can discount that idea now.
Grades, more on schools’ Web site
Seattle Times – Jul 29, 2005
Four high schools — Ballard, Cleveland, Franklin and Garfield — and Aki Kurose and Madison middle schools will be the first in the district to use an online, home-grown communication tool dubbed The Source. The rest of the district’s high schools will join the network in early October, project manager Ramona Pierson said, and the rest of the middle schools sometime in November. More work is needed before elementary schools can be brought aboard, she said. The tool, which the public will preview at Wednesday’s School Board meeting, takes the teacher’s grade book further by giving families secure, online access to their students’ grades, attendance records, assignments and performance on tests, such as the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). The tool also lets teachers, with a few mouse clicks, see their students’ entire class schedule, performance in other classes and concepts that students haven’t yet mastered, based on test scores…
The rest of the district’s high schools will join the network in early October, project manager Ramona Pierson said, and the rest of the middle schools sometime in November. More work is needed before elementary schools can be brought aboard, she said. The tool, which the public will preview at Wednesday’s School Board meeting, takes the teacher’s grade book further by giving families secure, online access to their students’ grades, attendance records, assignments and performance on tests, such as the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). The tool also lets teachers, with a few mouse clicks, see their students’ entire class schedule, performance in other classes and concepts that students haven’t yet mastered, based on test scores. Pierson says having instant access to all this information may encourage more conversations among teachers and parents. Teachers who experimented with a prototype last year say they saw results. “It’s really gotten parents more involved,” said Jessica Apitz, a teacher at Cleveland High School in South Seattle.