2022 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Top Jury Prizes Go To Nanny (U.S. Dramatic), The Exiles (U.S. Documentary), All That Breathes (World Cinema Documentary) and Utama (World Cinema Dramatic) Navalny (U.S. Documentary) and Cha Cha Real Smooth (U.S. Dramatic)Win Audience Awards Presented by Acura Navalny Wins Festival Favorite Award After nine days, 84 feature films and 59 short films, the juries have deliberated and the audience has voted, and Friday night the 2022 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards were announced. The award-winning films will screen … Continue reading 2022 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED
When It’s Too Cold
By Jannie Vaught When it’s too cold to go outside to spend a solid amount of time for this gardener it is time to evaluate what is at hand, what needs to be made, brought in, or purchased. When the weather warms it will be time to seriously get that compost activated. One of the yearly needs is refilling the raised beds, orb starting new … Continue reading When It’s Too Cold
Fighting For Their Rights
By Stephen Pisko Everybody are “fighting for their rights” that is the problem issue in most cases’ “friction against the foremost”. Which denotes you are dealing with something that is “ahead of you” and your creating friction with this something that is already “first in time” which immediately washes away any rights’ you think you possess. You cannot claim “rights for yourself” when someone before … Continue reading Fighting For Their Rights
NBA SUPERSTAR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHAQUILLE O’NEAL
TO HOSTS SPECIAL FREE WEEKEND NOON SCREENINGS OF “THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL” THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AT THE LAEMMLE THEATRES THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY JAN 29 AND 30 LUSIA “LUCY” HARRIS – THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL – courtesy of New York Times Op-Docs/Breakwater Films NBA Superstar and now Executive Producer Shaquille O’Neal announced special free matinee screenings this weekend only in Los Angeles of his short … Continue reading NBA SUPERSTAR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHAQUILLE O’NEAL
Crushing The Caterpillar
By Nancy Lyn Author of A Life of More Have you ever wondered, if the caterpillar had conscious thought, what he/she might be thinking as the started the chrysalis? This thing that would squeeze them so tightly that it felt like they would be crushed to death. It was of their own making, yet they couldn’t stop it. In the end, the very thing that … Continue reading Crushing The Caterpillar
Try Harder Film Review
By: Vernon Nickerson At Lowell High School, the top-ranked public high school in San Francisco,the seniors are stressed out and I can can relate. “Try Harder” shows the unbelievable pressure students are under to achieve their dream, but sometimes it’s not their dream but their parents. There is a parallel of what these students went through and what I went through in my earlier academic … Continue reading Try Harder Film Review
Apple Teams Up With Boys & Girls Clubs Of America To Bring New Coding Opportunities To Young Learners Across The Country
In celebration of Computer Science Education, Apple and Boys & Girls Clubs of America today launched a new program that will bring coding to Boys & Girls Clubs in more than a dozen US cities. This new collaboration will bring coding with Swift to tens of thousands of students across the country, building on Apple’s existing partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America through … Continue reading Apple Teams Up With Boys & Girls Clubs Of America To Bring New Coding Opportunities To Young Learners Across The Country
Sundance Institute Announces 2022 January Screenwriters Lab Fellows
he Sundance Institute announced today 16 writers invited to develop 12 original projects at the 2022 Screenwriters Lab, which will be hosted online from January 15-18. The Fellows were selected from 3,200 submissions to further develop their scripts with the guidance of accomplished advisors, some of whom are alumni of the Screenwriters Lab themselves. The 2022 lab wil take place under the leadership of Michelle Satter (Founding … Continue reading Sundance Institute Announces 2022 January Screenwriters Lab Fellows
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Spring 2022 Season of Exhibitions
Highlights include presentations on Charles Ray, Jacques Louis David, Winslow Homer, and Louise Bourgeois and the return of the spring Costume Institute exhibition In-person talks, tours, and performances have resumed; notable upcoming offerings include new thematic gallery talks, a concert by Angélique Kidjo, and a daring adaptation of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio by Heartbeat Opera The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today its lineup of exhibitions for the … Continue reading The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Spring 2022 Season of Exhibitions
For All Of Us In The Infinite Stream Of Healing
By Sherletta Germain Before I dive in, I want to express my gratitude for your time. I would like to celebrate you for taking the “deep dive” into a topic so taboo that many people will never have an open discussion, as if sexual trauma is a myth. But as you already know, that is not the case. Thank you for taking the time to … Continue reading For All Of Us In The Infinite Stream Of Healing
Power Struggle
By Stephen Pisko The human being is continually enduring a personal “inner & outer” power struggle which is (self) over and above (ego) It is the introverted insecure fragile initiation directly placed in the middle of the interior and exterior desparately trying to find it’s place in the mangled meaning of it all. Ego always takes front and center stage it is the exhilarating extrovert … Continue reading Power Struggle
Sunny Warm Skies And Looming Cold Fronts
By Jannie Vaught Today with sunny warm skies and a looming heavy wind and a cold front coming into side swipe us I had to turn on my water taps and attempt to hydrate the dust. Mainly the trees with leaves. I went to the Texas A&M website to have a look at what may be coming our way for spring. December was the “Hottest” … Continue reading Sunny Warm Skies And Looming Cold Fronts
2022 Sundance Film Festival: “Beyond Film” Line-Up Announced
The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the 2022 Sundance Film Festival Beyond Film lineup produced by the Festival, all of which are free to the public. These thought provoking and entertaining talks and events will include three conversation series (Power of Story, Cinema Cafe, and The Big Conversation) and more. The Festival takes place from January 20 – 30, 2022 on an enhanced online platform at Festival.Sundance.org and on … Continue reading 2022 Sundance Film Festival: “Beyond Film” Line-Up Announced
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Latest Additions Announced
Two World-Premiere Documentaries Added to Festival Lineup; Individual Tickets On Sale Now The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the addition of two world premiere feature films for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will take place online at Festival.Sundance.org; on The Spaceship, a bespoke immersive platform; and in person at seven Satellite Screens venues around the country during the Festival’s second weekend. The Festival takes … Continue reading 2022 Sundance Film Festival: Latest Additions Announced
Review of Days of Rage:Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations
Rarely does a k-12 Social Studies certificated education professional dual-credentialled ( in-progress) in Special Education have the honor of reviewing a documentary that has a current mainstream narrative. I am grateful that the stars aligned– Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations is the documentary; I am the teacher. Based upon a six-month-long investigative process which yielded never-before-seen footage, … Continue reading Review of Days of Rage:Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations
Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
Exhibition Dates: April 11–July 31, 2022Member Previews: April 5 & 7–10, 2022Exhibition Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, The Tisch Galleries, Gallery 899, Floor 2 Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) remains a beloved and consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. Opening April 11, 2022, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents will reconsider the artist’s work through the lens of … Continue reading Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
Growing The Three Sisters Garden
Jannie Vaught Who are the three sisters? For many Native American communities, three seeds-corn, beans, and squash represent the most important crops. They complement each other in the garden as well as nutritionally. How the three work together. Corn provides the tall stalks for the beans to climb, beans provide nitrogen to fertilize the spoil while stabilizing the tall corn during heavy winds, and large … Continue reading Growing The Three Sisters Garden
A Simple Indie Film Filled with Tears, Drama and Silence in “Lotawana”
By Mike Szymanski Sometimes a true “Film” is about filmmaking, not the dialogue. A lot of silence permeates this moody, picturesque film that’s an impressive first feature by Trevor Hawkins. Every scene, every camera shot, every moment is a piece of art, framed in nature and natural surroundings as we follow this couple who live on a sailboat, and take life where the wind send … Continue reading A Simple Indie Film Filled with Tears, Drama and Silence in “Lotawana”
Digital and Analog Photography 101
By Stephen Pisko The digital camera is a “reproduction of nature” A duplication of subject and object. An analog film camera is a “direct reflection of nature” It records what is before the lens within an actuality an “original image generation”. Be “pure as possible”! Eliminate a copied prostitution! Digital portrays the visual more untrue with an added instant quality realized within captivation the digital … Continue reading Digital and Analog Photography 101
Inheritance Italian Style
By Mike Szymanski Think of “Inheritance Italian Style” as like a dark comedy melodrama with wacky characters, over-the-top acting, and unpredictable liaisons all set in a beautiful countryside estate. It’s enjoyable, heart-felt, ridiculous, sad, and funny. Five sisters come together to discuss the dividing up of the family furniture well before their parents are gone in a large villa in Sicily. The countryside and the … Continue reading Inheritance Italian Style
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