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Naturally Obsessed
''Naturally Obsessed'' is a 2009 documentary film that opens a view on the training of scientists and the process of discovery. Shot over three years' time in the molecular biology laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Shapiro of the Columbia University Medical Center, the film chronicles how the tool of X-ray crystallography enables the discovery of the workings of the AMPK protein molecule, revealing a new path towards the treatment of diabetes and obesity. The film focuses on the human side of doing science. It follows the emotional ups and downs of three graduate students (Robert Townley, Kilpatrick Caroll and Gabrielle Cubberley) guided by their professor and laboratory head along the challenging and uncertain journey to the PhD degree. It highlights qualities that contribute to being a scientist, including persistence, asking the right questions, mastering technology, mentoring and being mentored, collaborating, and facing competition. Background The film was produced by the not-f ...
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Carole Rifkind
Carole Rifkind (June 23, 1935 – July 22, 2019) was an American architecture critic, architectural historian, author, educator and filmmaker. Her books concern architectural history as well as the negotiation between the built environment and people within the urban landscape.Carole Rifkind, "America's Fantasy Urbanism: The Waxing of the Mall and the Waning of Civility," in ''Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture'' edited by Katharine Washburn and John F. Thornton. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. Biography Carole Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at Mount Holyoke College"Lewis-Rifkind," ''New York Times'' (January 8, 1956), p. 90. and Barnard College, graduating from the latter in 1956. The same year she married Richard Rifkind. She taught at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and directed programs for the Hudson River Museum, the Municipal Art Society and Partners for Livable Places. She was also a consu ...
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Frank Mouris
Francis Peter "Frank" Mouris (born September 6, 1944) is an American animator. He is best known for his film '' Frank Film'' (1973), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Career Other films he made alongside wife Caroline include ''Coney'' (1975), ''Impasse'' (1978), the live action feature ''Beginner's Luck'' (1986) and ''Frankly Caroline'' (1999). He also contributed animations to '' Sesame Street''. Legacy ''Frank Film'' was added to the National Film Registry in 1996. Original picture and sound negatives, as well as preservation negatives on a number of the Mourises' films, are held at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood collection and the Yale Film Archive in New Haven. ''Frank Film'' was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive. References External links Frank Mouris on IMDBProfile at ACME Filmworks {{DEFAULTSORT:Mouris, Frank 1944 births Living people Collage filmmakers Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners A ...
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2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ...
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Films Shot In New York City
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ...
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Films Set In Columbia University
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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American Documentary Films
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2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being '' New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the ...
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World Science Festival
The World Science Festival is an annual science festival produced by the World Science Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City. There is also an Asia-Pacific event held in Brisbane, Australia. The foundation's mission is to cultivate a general public ‘informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future’. History The festival was founded and created by Brian Greene, professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia University and author of several science books (including ''The Elegant Universe'', and '' The Hidden Reality''); and Tracy Day, a four-time National News Emmy Award-winning journalist, who has produced live and documentary programming for the nation's preeminent television news divisions. Greene now serves as chairman of the World Science Foundation, and Day is chief executive of the World Science Festival.Cf. The festival's events are root ...
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Woods Hole Film Festival
The Woods Hole Film Festival was founded in 1991 by Judith Laster and Kate Davis. Since its foundation, the festival has grown from a one-day invitational event to an eight-day event with films submitted from around the world. The Festival is held each year from the last Saturday of July through the first Saturday of August in the village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The festival screens around 100 films culled from more than 700 submissions and has daily screenings of independent film, workshops, panel discussions, special events, readings, and informal get-togethers. Woods Hole is the oldest independent film festival on Cape CodThe 19th annual Woods Hole Film Festival
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Atlanta Film Festival
The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is a long-running, international film festival held in Atlanta, Georgia operated by the Atlanta Film Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Started in 1976 and occurring every spring, the festival shows a diverse range of independent films, with special attention paid to women-directed films, LGBTQ films, Latin American films, Black films and films from the American Southeast. ATLFF is one of only a handful of festivals that are Academy Award-qualifying in all three short film categories. History Founding In 1968, the Atlanta International Film Festival was launched, becoming Atlanta's first major film event. It operated until 1974 when the organizers were no longer able to finance the operation. Two years later, a group of independent filmmakers and artists established Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc. (IMAGE) as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1976. The IMAGE Film & Video Center opened that year as the first media arts ce ...
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David Majzlin
David Majzlin is an Emmy®-nominated composer whose credits include numerous critically acclaimed films such as ''The Loving Story'', ''Youth Knows No Pain'', and '' Sins of My Father'' (''Pecados De Mi Padre'') for HBO, ''Herb and Dorothy'', ''Stille'', (Winner - Best Score - Avignon Film Festival), ''Being Reel'', (Winner - Grand Prize - Project Greenlight Competition), and ''Shenandoah'' ( Louverture Films, Netflix), directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, David Turnley. He also wrote additional music for '' Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel'' (Samuel Goldwyn Films, Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival), ''Sunshine Cleaning'' (Nomination - Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Festival) - starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, and Alan Arkin, and source music for ''The Ghost Writer'' (dir., Roman Polanski, starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall), '' All Good Things'' (dir., Andrew Jarecki, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella), ...
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