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MacFilmmakers

This month's meeting is for users to show off their videos, both professional and amateur. Each video is about 10 minutes (longer videos are not shown in their entirety). Audience members can ask questions after each video. Actually, they usually show user videos at the beginning of each meeting. This week it's an extended session.

Video: A Mars Experience (Final Cut Pro)
-- video about Mars experiments as related to NASA
-- NASA people talking about various things

Video: Change Your World (30 seconds)
-- Apple PowerBook G5 commercial
-- Good cinematography. Short and funny

Video: Third Degree (Final Cut Pro)
-- Woman dies, man accused, interrogation room
-- independent project, shot in two days, nice little drama

Video: Short Anti-Bush Film (30 seconds)
-- Usual liberal crap

The Everest Peace Project

-- Group of nine climbers want to climb Mt Everest
-- Lots of nationalities, some sort of political "peace" statement
-- International press conference at Sierra Club tomorrow
-- 09/21/04 UN International Day of Peace, event on Mt Shasta
-- main climb in 2005
-- people can get involved: sponsors, donations, filmmaker for Shasta
-- climbers represent five major religious faiths
-- three climbers have been on Everest before
-- $300k to fund expedition and build a school in Nepal
-- more exertion doesn't require oxygen tanks because blood flowing

-- What if they all die on Everest? Is it God saying "you're wrong"?
-- Sure, you will climb with him. But will you buy him a drink?
-- Easy to fund war? Try working in Congress.

Under the Microscope: Ball Lightning

-- Aggressive critiquing session
-- Shot in April 2001 in HD
-- 27 minutes
-- Two girls talking, one 21 and the other 18
-- Apparently not a porno film
-- No feeling for what the movie is about
-- Got the child abuse but what's the point?
-- No resolution
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