![]() ![]() It is high time we created dedicated space for women, BIPOC, and underrepresented creators to change the world through radical storytelling. “Those without power in this industry have been denied a voice for too long. “This system may be broken, but the medium of film is not,” says Shipley. Safe Space’s slate of upcoming projects includes collaborations with Boardwalk Pictures, Impact Partners, XTR Studios, Anonymous Content, Fishbowl Films, producer Jeff Reichert (“American Factory) director David Usui (“In Transit”), and editor Jessica Congdon (“John Lewis: Good Trouble”). Safe Space’s team includes Shipley, who serves as Safe Space CEO, Sobrato, Emmy winning producer Ryan Harrington (“The Cave,” Becoming Cousteau”) as Head of Documentary and tech founder and social entrepreneur Jaden Levitt as President. In addition to financial support and impact campaigns, Safe Space also provides creators with industry support via introductions to distributors and sales agents. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Castle is lured to another farm to discover a similar scene of sadistic torture just as the Multnomah County police arrive. Veteran criminal attorney Frank Jaffe and his latest associate, his daughter Amanda, get evidence that allows them, much to their discomfort, to get the charges dismissed, and their client promptly disappears, with every indication that he's dead. ![]() Francis surgical resident Justine Castle, must be framing him. After the cops dig up nine tortured bodies on the property, Cardoni is imprisoned without bail, even though he charmlessly insists that he's innocent and that his estranged wife, St. Cardoni's isolated cabin and discovers two severed heads. Francis Hospital surgeon Vincent Cardoni has just purchased two kilos of cocaine from notorious drug supplier (and organ purchaser) Martin Breach, peeks into the fridge in Dr. Death by the tabloids" fuels Margolin's fifth transcendently commercial two-act thriller ( The Undertaker’s Widow, 1998, etc.).Īct One kicks off when Bobby Vasquez, a Portland vice cop acting on a tip that St. "The combination of mass murder, black-market organ sales, torture and a handsome physician. ![]() ![]() Swimming Home is produced by Emily Morgan of the UK’s Quiddity Films, whose credits include the Bafta-winning I Am Not A Witch, with Andy Starke of Rook Films ( In Fabric, Free Fire, Duke of Burgundy, Kill List, Possessor, The Souvenir), with Paula Linhares and Marcos Tellechea of Brazil’s Reagent Media ( American Made, Pacified, Rio I Love You), Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis of Greece’s Heretic ( Triangle Of Sadness, Along The Way, Magnetic Fields), and Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film ( The Lobster, Do Not Hestitate, Monos, Pleasure). The film is an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Deborah Levy and is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa. ![]() ![]() US rights are being co-repped by UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent. Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis will star in ‘Swimming Home’Īriane Labed, Christopher Abbott and Mackenzie Davis have signed to star in Justin Anderson’s directorial debut Swimming Home, which Bankside Films is introducing to international buyers at Cannes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Moon Princess is an important record of a tumultuous period in the history of a troubled country. Studying at Cambridge, Sanda, met her English husband, Peter Simms and later they lived in Rangoon against a background of political upheaval until the end of democratic rule forced them to leave their home and their country, never to return. It is a personal account of a family caught up in political turmoil which led to the loss of a brother and a father, the first during the coup and the latter, in military custody. She describes growing up in the Shan States and records the changes that occurred during the periods of British colonial rule, war and Japanese occupation, the return of the British administration, the troubled years after Burma's independence and finally, the military takeover in 1962. ![]() ![]() Narrated by the eldest daughter of Sao Shwe Thaike, the Prince of Yawnghwe, The Moon Princess recounts both the story of her early life and at the same time provides a fascinating memoir of her father who, in 1948, became first President of the Union of Burma after the country gained its independence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guerard, and his wife, the writer Maclin Bocock Guerard, for helping her to publish her first short story in the magazine Fiction. She credits her mentor, professor and writer Albert J. Hoffman’s first novel, Property Of, was written at the age of twenty-one, while she was studying at Stanford, and published shortly thereafter by Farrar Straus and Giroux. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. Full BiographyĪlice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952, and grew up on Long Island. Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Book of Magic, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. ![]() ![]() ![]() News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. ![]() In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green-cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow-spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some elements the artist has a modicum of control over, but they are all intermingled to such a degree as to cause the artist's legacy to be, not totally, but virtually unpredictable. All of these things are quite apart from the artist's actual creative output, their style, their choice of media, the quantity and quality of their work, and their knack for self-promotion. It has to do with their health as well, personal habits, and general demeanor. It has to do with world events as well-wars, economic disasters, political upheavals, and most of all how the artists react to all these things. ![]() Much has to do with critical decisions artists make as to where they live, their marriage (singular or plural), the friends they make, people they encounter, and causes they embrace. It's hard for a young artist to guess the ultimate direction of his or her career how their work will be treated by critics, the buying public, and art connoisseurs both during, and especially after their lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Through the course of the first year, the people who gardened together began to take pride in their neighborhood. When Kim planted her seeds in the lot, Ana assumed that Kim was involved in some wrongdoing, an example of the mindset of the people who lived there. The neighborhood was crime-ridden and people tended to keep to themselves, not even bothering to get to know their neighbors. Before the garden, the vacant lot was filled with filled with trash. Fleischman demonstrates this diversity through the 13 different people he chooses to tell the story, including Vietnamese, Haitians, Indians, English, blacks, and whites. ![]() Through its first year, the garden gave the residents of the neighborhood a reason to take pride in the place they lived and brought them together as a community.Īmir, a man from India tells the reader in his section of the novel: “Cleveland is a city of immigrants” (60). These voices range from Kim, a young girl who started the garden by planting lima beans in a vacant lot in the hope that her father would see her and recognize her as his daughter, to Leona, the young black mother who campaigned to get the city of Cleveland to remove the trash from the vacant lot. In his novel, Seedfolks, author Paul Fleischman follows the development of a community garden through the voices of the diverse people who contribute to the project. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Fleischman, Paul. ![]() ![]() (Scrawled in spiky, capitalized letters, the baby’s cries of “WAAAH!” scream across the pages, evoking both Scandinavian runes and sonic daggers.) When nothing else works, older brother Sven seizes on his love of stories to lull the baby to sleep with a tale of “fantastic voyages and epic feasts and all the adventures they would have.” Penfold folds in fun ancient analogues to tried-and-true methods of appeasing cranky little ones (“She was not amused by shiny plunder. “No, a warrior princess!” Roxas ( Let Me Finish!) shows the scruffy infant glaring cockeyed from underneath a blanket-before she lets loose with a giant wail. “What’s this? A fair maiden?” asks Penfold ( We Are Brothers, We Are Friends). ![]() ![]() ![]() A young Viking with a knack for storytelling steps into new roles when he gains a baby sister. ![]() |