Pan Left Productions

This is an exciting time in the creation of the Truth On the Line pilot episode.

"The choppers began landing a short while ago and we are now getting patients by airlift."

Despair take action!
Besides praying and crying, staying online in the last days of rescue help in Haiti can save lives! My desperate surfing and a message of relief follow:

iReport —(http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-392119)

"Honor and celebrate one another's life through listening."

When StoryCorps came to Tucson last year I naturally thought about interviewing my boss at the time, Sam Behrend, Executive Director of Access Tucson. After he agreed to the interview I quickly booked the appointment and started thinking about what kind of questions I wanted to ask him. This candid interview captured Sam's frustration, his passion, and 25 years of dedication to community media. I'm proud to have worked with him he's cool!

A few days ago I blogged about the film Avatar and how it reinforced gender stereotypes and dominant ideas about body images. I also saw this week a very different sort of film, one that I was pleased to see presented a much more realistic and healthy idea of what female bodies can be like, in addition to a more realistic vision of male/female relationships..  This sort of thing is so rare in the film world that I just have to mention it.

read more at Steev's blog

I want to introduce you guy to a piece of software that I have started using. It's name is Celtx. It is an integrated pre-production software for film, theater, audio, Av and comics.

You can use Celtx for the entire production process - write scripts, storyboard scenes and sequences, sketch setups, develop characters, breakdown & tag elements, schedule productions, and prepare and circulate informative reports for cast and crew.

It has a choice of fully integrated production tools so that your end product turns out the way you want it.

I was unsure, for several weeks, whether I wanted to go see the film "Avatar."  The concept was interesting, but given that it was James Cameron directing, and something like the most expensive film ever made, I was expecting it would have problems.  Not to mention that action movies appeal less and less to me these days, mainly because the cinematography for them, in general, has been steadily ramping up to a level of intensity that way too much for my nervous sys

Hi creative people of Tucson! FYI- I am now a writer for the Examiner.com Arts & Entertainment section so if you got an opening, CD release party, event, performance, etc..Newsworthy (or not) please contact me! I'll give you some worldwide exposure. Oooh!

http://www.examiner.com/x-33973-Tucson-Art-Scene-Examiner

A few years ago I wrote a blog entry about subtitling and a little text-processing tool I wrote for preparing text so that it could be imported into DVD Studio Pro.  I wrote it because often someone doing translation for you is not putting timecode start and end times in, not to mention chopping things up into lines short enough to fit on the screen.  My program simply made up some rough timecodes based on the time offset at which you'd like subtitles to start and a constant duration for each subtitle, then inserted them before each line in the STL f

Tucson Feed the Homeless Project fed the homeless in a park in Tucson Arizona on January 17th. The Tucson Feed the Homeless Project is a program of The Carlos G. Figueroa Foundation. The video slide show was part of a project of The Homeless Documentaries Team another program of The Carlos G. Figueroa Foundation. The photos were taken by Kathleen Dreier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPOqWagOIvw