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- (8/4) Student Academy Awards Provide ‘Momentum’ for Young Filmmakers
- AUDIO Student Academy Awards Provide ‘Momentum’ for Young Filmmakers While most people know about the Academy Awards in Hollywood — the awards known as the Oscars — few know about the Student Academy Awards. But to those who know about the industry, they are a big deal. A top-three finish at the Student Academy Awards can lift a young filmmaker’s career. Freddy Macdonald knows this. His short movie, Shedding Angels, placed third in the narrative film category in 2022. It was his thesis film after two years of study at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. A thesis is a big project that is needed to complete a study program. Just being selected as a finalist was a dream come true, Macdonald said. “Having that stamp from the Academy helped give me so much momentum to create my first feature film.” Macdonald is 23. He said the recognition from the Academy helped launch his career. After the award, he said, investors paid more attention to him, and he was able to create excitement for a full-length movie. That movie is a longer version of another one of his short films called Sew Torn. He directed it when he was 19. Sew Torn, he said, tells the story of a seamstress who gets involved in a violent drug deal. The full-length movie will be shown at film festivals this year and Macdonald hopes it will be shown in theaters sometime in the near future. History of success Macdonald could be one of the more recent filmmakers to go on to a successful career in Hollywood after receiving a student award from the Academy. The awards program celebrated its 50th year in 2023. Some of the past winners include Spike Lee, known for his movies, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, He Got Game and others. Lee won an Oscar in 2019 for BlacKkKlansman. Lee won his student award in 1983 when he was studying at New York University (NYU). His film was Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Other student winners include Robert Zemeckis, who won an Oscar for directing Forrest Gump in 1994. Pete Docter won a student award, too. He later earned Oscars for his animated films Up, Inside Out and Soul. Kendra Carter is a Vice President at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which runs both awards programs. She said the Academy hopes to open the film industry to people from many different backgrounds and “create a pool of highly skilled, diverse talent.” Serious exposure In 2023, 640 members of the Academy voted on the awards, which means the student work was seen by hundreds of people in Hollywood. In addition to the award, many students come away from the event with a business agent who can help them get more work. But that’s not all. The gold-medal winners can choose to have their work submitted for the Academy Awards. Last year, an animated short film by a student from Australia, An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It, was considered for an Oscar. “Once your name is tied to a Student Academy Award, it just opens all of these doors,” the Academy’s Carter said. “It’s so transformative for emerging filmmakers.” The program is now open to young filmmakers from around the world. Giorgio Ghiotto of Italy is a student at NYU. He won the gold medal in October for his documentary short film Wings of Dust. “Everyone thinks it’s impossible to be a documentary filmmaker unless you’re rich, or super lucky,” Ghiotto said. He called his success “an impossible dream.” Macdonald said the opportunity to compete with student filmmakers from around the world was both “extremely daunting and exciting.” He said it was a great experience to go to the awards ceremony and meet so many creative people from around the world. School experience He would not have gotten that experience without going to film school. Macdonald said he thought about going to an undergraduate film program first. “And then towards the end of high school, kind of, I knew I wanted to be a filmmaker, but the big question came what college am I gonna go to? Where should I be applying? And so, I started looking at all the different paths in terms of film school and the American Film Institute always jumped off the page to me…But I didn't think that would be a possibility because it is a graduate program, and I was applying as a high school senior.” Macdonald applied and was the youngest person ever accepted into the directing program. He was qualified because by then, he had already made a short film and done other directing jobs. But because he did not have a college degree, AFI gave him a “certificate of completion” at the end. While in school, he learned more about the business side of filmmaking than he expected. He learned how to write a proposal that aimed to make investors excited to finance a film. “And that was really helpful for me to kind of wrap my head around the different ways you can make movies.” ‘An honor’ Before being nominated for a Student Academy Award, Macdonald had everything he needed to enter the film industry. He had strong experience before attending AFI. He learned even more in school. He even got attention from some film studios. But the Student Academy Award experience gave him something more. It gave him the sense that other people believed in what he was doing. “The Academy recognizing it (my film) really gave me belief in myself that the stories that I want to tell are worth telling and that I should keep pursuing them.” The lesson, Macdonald added, was that the Academy liked his work and he, in his words, “should keep fighting to make movies.” _________________________________________________ Words in This Story career –n. a job or profession that a person has for a long time narrative –adj. telling a story stamp –n. a mark of approval momentum –n. a push that continues movement into the future seamstress –n. a woman who sews or repairs clothing animated –adj. involving moving pictures or cartoons rather than live-action film diverse –adj. involving many different examples of something transformative –adj. causing complete change emerging –adj. just beginning to develop into something fully pursue –v. to chase, follow or simply continue doing something https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/student-academy-awards-provide-momentum-for-young-filmmakers/7467021.html
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- (8/1) UN: Violence Is Harming Haiti’s Schools
- AUDIO UN: Violence Is Harming Haiti’s Schools Schools in Haiti are operating without enough chairs, blackboards, and even bathrooms. Violent criminal groups limit basic government services and deepen poverty while the state education system faces a $23 million deficit. Yasmine Sherif is the ｅxecutive director of the U.N. organization Education Cannot Wait. “The country needs help,” Sherif said during her three-day visit to the Caribbean country in July. Sherif said the organization provided $2.5 million to help nearly 75,000 children in Haiti with money, food and other programs. And she asked the European Union and other countries, including France and the U.S., to help close the educational deficit. "My main concern is security," she said, noting the effect that violence has had on education. Criminal groups, called gangs, killed or injured more than 2,500 people in the first three months of the year. Violence has seriously affected life in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and elsewhere. At least 919 schools remain closed in Port-au-Prince and in the central area of Artibonite because of gang violence. The U.N. says that school closures have affected more than 150,000 students. "Education is part of the solution," Sherif said. "That would end extreme poverty, extreme violence and create political stability and create a reliable workforce." Gang violence impacts Gang violence also has left some 580,000 people homeless across Haiti, with many crowding into temporary shelters or taking over schools, causing them to close. Schools that remain open are increasingly forced to take students from others that have closed. The Jean Marie Vincent School in central Port-au-Prince, for example, has accepted students from 12 other schools. Charles Luckerno is the head of the Vincent School. He said, "We're not the only ones" facing such serious problems. Luckerno said that when classes end for the day, people left homeless by gang violence enter the school and sleep on its ground. Although that creates health problems, Luckerno still lets them stay. He said, "We are human. We cannot throw them out." Not enough chairs Williamson Bissainthe is a 22-year-old high school student who is preparing to take his final exam to graduate. He described the sad state of some schools. "A lot of schools are missing benches or chairs. Teachers do not show up on time. The hardest part of this is that there are no bathrooms," he said. Bissainthe added, "I hope that the generation that comes after me doesn't have to go through the same suffering.” Private schools are out of reach for many in Haiti, a country of more than 11 million people. More than 60 percent of the population earns less than $2 a day. Homeless students Among those who have been forced to flee their homes is 20-year-old Megane Dumorcy. She would like to study agriculture, but completing her education has been difficult. "The insecurity has had a huge impact on my life," she said, noting that some students have been forced to leave their backpacks behind as they flee gangs. "The state should find a solution for that. We shouldn't be living in a country where our movement is limited." She said her school is only half-built and lacks a library, a computer room, a blackboard and chairs. She does research on her phone when needed. Another blow to Haitian schools came in late 2022. That was the time the U.S. started a program permitting Haitians and people from other countries to enter the country on humanitarian grounds. "A lot of teachers left," said Frantz Erine, an official at the Jean Marie Vincent School. ______________________________________________ Words in This Story bathroom – n. a room with a sink and toilet and sometimes a bathtub or shower gang – n. a group of criminals graduate – v. to earn a degree or diploma from a school, college, or university impact – n. a powerful or major influence or effect https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/un-violence-is-harming-haiti-s-schools/7736685.html
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- (7/31) US Colleges Change Rules for Campus Protests
- AUDIO US Colleges Change Rules for Campus Protests As students return to college across the United States, administrators are preparing for new activism against the war in Gaza. Some have adopted new rules limiting protests. Last spring, college protests resulted in damage, conflict and arrests at several schools. The summer break brought most protests to an end. But the results of the damage last spring are still being felt. At Columbia University in New York City, Minouche Shafik resigned from her position as president earlier this month. In April, Shafik faced strong criticism from lawmakers over her response to protests at Columbia. New measures for campus demonstrations Some universities are putting new measures in place to avoid what happened at Columbia. The new rules include banning encampments and limiting the duration of demonstrations. They permit protests only in defined areas and restrict campus access to those with university identification. Critics say some of the measures will hurt free speech. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released a statement earlier this month condemning “overly restrictive policies” that would harm free expression. The AAUP said, “Our colleges and universities should encourage, not suppress, open and vigorous dialogue and debate even on the most deeply held beliefs.” The University of Pennsylvania has released “temporary guidelines” for student protests. Overnight demonstrations are banned, and the use of loud audio equipment is barred after 5 p.m. on days when classes are being held. Signs, posters, and banners must be removed after two weeks. The university says it remains supportive of freedom of speech and lawful assembly. At Indiana University, protests after 11 p.m. are banned under a new “expressive activities policy” which took effect on August 1. The policy bars “camping” or placing a shelter on campus. Signs require approval from school officials. The University of South Florida now requires approval for tents, canopies, banners, signs and amplifiers. “Speech, expression and assembly” rules bar demonstrations after 5 p.m. on weekdays and weekends. Protests are completely banned during the last two weeks of a semester. Risa Lieberwitz is a Cornell University professor of labor and employment law and gives legal advice to the AAUP. Lieberwitz said, “I think right now we are seeing a resurgence of repression on campuses that we haven’t seen since the late 1960s.” However, university officials say free speech cannot interfere with learning. They say the ｕpdated rules improve safety on campus. Why are students protesting? Tensions at many universities increased after October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel. Hamas killed 1,200 people most of whom were civilians. Hamas also took about 250 people hostage. Israel’s military operation to answer the attack has continued through the summer. Many student protesters in the U.S. have promised to continue their activism against the Gaza war. They are fueled by information from Hamas’s health ministry that says more than 40,000 people have died in the Gaza conflict. Much of that tension appeared in the spring on Columbia’s campus. On April 30, police with riot shields raided a building that pro-Palestinian protesters had occupied at Columbia. Earlier, police had cleared out a tent camp that protestors had set up. Similar protests took place on campuses around the country. It is estimated that more than 3,000 people were arrested in connection with the pro-Palestinian protests. However, many of the students who were arrested during police actions have had their charges dismissed. Some are still waiting to learn what government lawyers decide. Others have faced suspension from school, had their diplomas withheld or faced other punishments. Columbia only recently began permitting people with university identification or registered visitors onto campus. Officials said they wanted to limit possible “disruptions” at the start of the new semester. Shafik of Columbia was among the university leaders who Congress called on in April to explain what was happening. Lawmakers accused her of not doing enough to deal with concerns about anti-Semitism at Columbia. She announced her resignation weeks before classes are to start on September 3. Other university leaders have also stepped down in recent months. University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned in December. She faced pressure after she appeared before Congress and was unable to say whether calls on campus for the genocide of Jewish people would violate school policy. In January, Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned after accusations of claiming others’ writings as her own and her statement about free speech given to Congress. _______________________________________________ Words in This Story adopt –v. to accept and put in place access encourage –v. to support and get people to do something vigorous –adj. done with energy and willingness assembly –n. the lawful and peaceful gathering of people in public canopy –n. a shelter similar to a tent but without sides amplifier –n. a device that electronically makes a sound louder semester –adj. one half of a school year diploma –n. a document that officially shows that a person has fulfilled requirements for a degree from a school or university disruption –n. an event that interferes with normal or necessary activities https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/us-colleges-change-rules-for-campus-protests/7750289.html
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