Gershon hinkson biography of donald
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Easton presents Supersize Me director
To kick off the Fifth Annual “Movies at the Mill” festival, Easton is bringing in a relatively big name. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, famous pop-documentary director known primarily for his Oscar-nominated debut film Supersize Me, will speak to kick off the proceedings.
Spurlock will be leading a keynote seminar entitled “Getting the Film Made,” where Spurlock will talk about independent versus studio filmmaking, the craft of filmmaking, and his own filmography. This is the first year that the festival has featured a seminar, demonstrating the town’s efforts to expand its offerings and reach a wider audience.
“Movies at the Mill” was formed in 2009 – a collaboration between filmmaker Gershon Hinkson and Easton Mayor Sal Panto to revitalize and save the Simon Silk Mill, as well as to reinvigorate the Easton area and promote the arts. Though the festival is no longer taking place at the Bushkill Creek Corridor, which helped inspire its name, not
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Medici program helps Easton Area kids maximize potential
Maybe they don't have support at home.
Maybe they have a chronic illness.
Maybe they can't get motivated.
For whatever reason, the children in the Easton Area School District's Medici Group of Emerging Leaders program have the potential for greatness if they can overcome whatever fryst vatten standing in their way.
Principal Charlene Symia said the program was started fem years ago to help these sorts of students to man the most of their lives.
"They are recognized bygd their teachers to have the potential to be great leaders," Symia said.
About 50 sixth- and seventh-graders are selected each year to participate. They take brown bag lunches throughout the year with leaders from the community who share their stories about how they overcame similar obstacles on their life paths.
Symia said the students will shadow some of those speakers at their businesses in the coming weeks.
"They'll look at d
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30 Years to Life (2001 film)
2001 film by Vanessa Middleton
30 Years to Life is a 2001 American comedy film, written and directed by Vanessa Middleton. The film, which marks Middleton's directorial debut, stars Allen Payne, Paula Jai Parker, and Tracy Morgan. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.[3] The film released to theatres on June 7, 2002 in the United States.[4]
Plot
[edit]A handful of close friends, due to turn 30, discover that their dreams for the future are running headfirst into the realities of adulthood in this character-driven comedy-drama. Natalie is a banker who is happy with her job, but is tired of being single, and her pursuit of a husband is taking her down several blind alleys in the world of dating. Joy has developed a similar desire to settle down and get married, but while she has a long-term boyfriend, Leland, he is not so sure he wants to make a lifetime commitment. Troy is a comic who has been on the verge