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Due for release in eighteen months the film is called Olympia, after her grandmother. Samar says, “I titled the film after my grandmother because she was one of the women that left Lebanon during WW1. The Ottoman Empire at that time gave permission for the women and children to leave, but needed the men to stay behind to fight the war and work in the mountains of Turkey.” The one and a half hour documentary is about the early Lebanese immigration to the United States, during 1850-1914, and the women who became the heroes of this effort. It will be a mixture of true life stories and a drama filled documentary. Samar says this film has always been her passion to make and she hopes the film will change her life and influence the Lebanese community. She says, “this film will take eighteen months to film as it’s a very rich documentary and there is a lot of information to cover.”
1 – DO NOT EXPECT TO LOOK LIKE SOMEONE ELSE IN YOUR HEADSHOT
I cannot stress this enough — your headshot should actually look like you. This seems obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people think they need to look like someone else in their headshots! Several years before I was a headshot photographer in Vancouver, and was looking for a photographer to do my own headshots, someone suggested I go to a certain photographer: “This photographer is so amazing! They make you look like a totally different person!” Well, newsflash!…that’s what you absolutely DO NOT want when you’re getting an actor headshot. If your headshot does not look like you, casting directors might ask that you get a new headshot, and you will have wasted hundreds of dollars. Also, if you haven’t gotten an agent yet and you are submitting your headshot to talent agencies, you want your headshot to accurately represent what you look like in real life. You don’t want your potential agent to be surprised when you show up, looking nothing like the headshot you submitted.
American modern artist Georgia Totto O’Keefe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin to dairy farmer parents. She decided she was going to be an artist when she was only ten years old. She was a prominent figure in the art community way before women could acquire art training in schools in America. She is deemed to have paved the way for women to have a place America’s art community which used to be a man’s world. Her innovative abstract works were among the most famous from 1910 to the 1920s. She did large flower paintings and buildings of New York, totally revolutionizing the craft. When she moved to New Mexico in 1949, she focused on painting representations of its churches, culture and landscape.
So many of the great Pixar movies are about the old giving way to the new. Among the many examples are;
Toy Story - Old, wooden toy Woody the cowboy, is threatened by the arrival of shiny, new, plastic toy, Buzz Lightyear the spaceman.
A Bug’s Life – A group of down and out theater troupe bugs get a chance to play heroes and save their livelihoods and their lives.
Monsters, Inc. – The old way of collecting energy through screams is eventually replaced by collecting laughter.
Finding Nemo – Dad proves his usefulness and his love by searching for his lost son.
For a lot of musicians, the goal is often to be a huge rock star, which translates into getting signed by a major record label. A “major” is a large record company with its own distribution system. The main major labels are Sony BMG, Warner, EMI and the Universal Music Group. This is probably the most difficult goal to achieve, not because of the quality of your music, but because the numbers are working against you.
In the 2004 Frontline episode, “The Way the Music Died,” Melinda Newman, of Billboard Magazine, says, “The chances of you having a hit are just almost infinitesimal. There are about 30,000 albums released a year. There may be a hundred that are hits, or certified hits.”