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Summary: KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando runs a column in the SD Reader called Seen on DVD. She asked me for some suggestions. Here is what was printed:

Michelle Osorio
“Lowly” production assistant, Creepshow 3

Killer Klowns from Outer Space has great behind-the-scenes footage of some very ’80s-looking effects. The DVD also features 8mm short films done by the directors when they were kids. Look for the Easter Eggs! It took me days to go through all the DVD content for Moulin Rouge, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. I could even read an earlier draft of the entire script.

Cannibal! The Musical is South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s first movie. You can also find footage of the live stage version put together by fans years later.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (USA) 1988, MGM Home Entertainment

List price: $14.95

Moulin Rouge (Australia/USA) 2001, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

List price: $29.98

Cannibal! The Musical (USA) 1996, Troma Team Video

List price: $24.95

That’s it for now, folks. Happy birthday to me!

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Uh….. Jeff Hillman, who directed Reflections (I was cinematographer) told me that the film is going online at the school website. I didn’t see the project there, but I DID discover that Safety With Scissors is there…. My first short on film.

How weird. The compression ain’t so great, but all you people who have asked me to put it online for years might want to watch it.

http://www.swc.cc.ca.us/%7Etelemedia/

It’s under “outstanding student work.”

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I went to the Imperial Beach Film Festival awards ceremony on Friday night.

It turns out I didn’t win second place…

I won FIRST PLACE!

I got a pretty plaque that I love. When I move out in May, I plan to make a little display to put it up next to my other film trophies.

I’m glad Rudy and I decided to to go eat afterwards with some of the people there. They were all so nice. Hopefully I’ll be able to email them with thanks sometime soon. As it is I am late for something! See ya later!

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More good news. Insecto, directed by Giancarlo Ruiz and with cinematography by yours truly, won best experimental short film at the San Diego Latino Film Festival today! Yay!

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Wow. My friend just told me that my film (Safety With Scissors) won 2nd place in Comedy at the Imperial Beach Film Festival. Funny. I wasn’t notified. She won something too and is wondering where our prizes are at…
We shoot the music video starting Friday.

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Okay so Appetite For Love won 3rd place! Booyakasha! Southwestern won 1st 2nd or 3rd with 5 entries. SWC also garnered several honorable mentions. We rule, so stay in school!

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I’m listening to Ninja Rap from the second ninja turtle movie. Haha.

I was listening to a song from The Bride with White Hair earlier and got sad about Leslie Cheung again.

I realized a big mistake we made on Appetite For Love. Ah well. All that matters is we got in. Turns out I got an honorable mention for the PSA I made. No prize money though.

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Film Threat magazine critics attended Tromadance this year and were at my Safety with Scissors screening. Below is the review by Eric Campos. The film received 3 out of 5 stars. Not great, but it could have been worse!

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	SAFETY WITH SCISSORS by Eric Campos

“Safety With Scissors” is a fake educational film about scissors safety featuring some dumbass in an afro, I guess because afros are funny, that winds up getting a pair of scissor lodged in his head.

I love educational films, so I appreciate the effort that this filmmaker has put forth, but I think the goofy factor was kicked up way too much on this short, so the joke is kinda squashed by super whacky acting, silly gore and yeah…that afro. What I liked most about “Safety With Scissors” is the opening and closing super 8 footage of various locations like train stations and fountains that play as background fodder for the credits. I think this is where they really captured the feel of a cheesy educational film.

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Here’s the article from the San Diego Union Tribune that my video was mentioned in. The quote is not verbatim, but it’s close enough… I guess. My part is in brown text. My last name is spelled wrong, but I’m used to that. BTW, Tom was a very nice fellow.

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Anti-border event to examine divide
Tijuana weekend camp to feature talks, photography exhibits

By Tom Wetzling

August 24, 2001

Luis Rosales sees the U.S.-Mexico border — or any border, for that matter — as a historical mistake that is “inhumane and murderous and needs to be deleted.”

That’s why the 26-year-old Tijuana medical student is one of the main organizers for Borderhack, an anti-border camp being held this weekend on the Tijuana beach.

“Some people are afraid of the word hack,” Rosales said, “but I can ensure you, we are absolutely nonaggressive.”

More than 400 people gathered peacefully for the first Borderhack last year, and this year Rosales expects more than 500. The camp will again be set up next to the metal border fence that runs into the ocean, separating the Tijuana beach from Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach. The event will feature talks and workshops, photography exhibits, and independent radio and movie presentations. Bands from both sides of the border will also perform.

The name Borderhack was invented last year by Rosales and Laboratorios Cinematik, a multimedia network group in Tijuana. “In the world of computers, hacking is an exploration or investigation of a system with the goal of understanding it, not of destroying it,” Rosales wrote on the Borderhack Web site, “and that is exactly what we are trying to do: to understand the border, to know what it represents and to become aware of the role that we play in it.”

Though the word is new, the concept is not.

In Germany four years ago, the idea for such a camp was created at an international art exhibition, “documenta X,” which used the slogan “kein mensch ist illegal” (no human being is illegal). Along the German-Polish border river, activists and artists expressed their opposition to the treatment of illegal immigrants.

The border that separates Germany and Poland is used by thousands of migrants and refugees who are not allowed to enter legally. An increasing number of border patrol agents are being stationed there to detect “illegal” border crossings.

This year, the original motto of the German anti-border-camp has been revised. “We are all illegal” is the new message being printed on T-shirts.

Ben Weinstein, a 54-year-old San Diego teacher, wore one yesterday at a news conference to publicize the event. Weinstein is a member of La Resistencia, a Texas-based nonprofit with a chapter in San Diego.

“It is so important to do something,” Weinstein said. “Every human life is more important than a law.”

Michelle Osoria, a Southwestern College student and a member of La Resistencia, sees Borderhack as a global movement with anti-globalization sentiments.

“I do want a world without borders. But globalization now is just a symbol of economic inequality,” she said.

Osoria is going to present a video documentary this weekend. She calls it “Divide and Conquer,” and it opens with the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor — Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Victor Clark, who heads the Binational Office for Human Rights in Tijuana, is impressed with the way Borderhack has reached a new generation of human rights activists. “They can now get in contact with the whole world,” he said.

The Borderhack Web site is www.de-lete.tv/borderhack/eng/index.html. The camp begins at 1 p.m. today and ends late Sunday night at Playas de Tijuana, near the lighthouse. For transportation information, call La Resistencia at (619) 497-1035.

Tom Wetzling is a German journalist working at The San Diego Union-Tribune for the summer on an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship.

Copyright 2001 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.

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One more thing, folks. These articles can be accessed from two Union Tribune sites. I don’t know how long they will be accesible, but here are the links.

Link 1
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