Month: December 2011

Last week, (19) of our Alumni Group met at In & Out Burgers in Newhall for our first ever Angel Tree gift giveaway.

Angel Tree is a ministry of Prison Fellowship, which allows those who are incarcerated to buy Christmas Gifts for their children. Studies have found that if you can keep a relationship between incarcerated parents and their children intact this will help to keep those children from ending up behind bars… Angel Tree coordinates with volunteers to go out and buy and then deliver those Christmas gifts to the children, always reminding them that the gifts are from their fathers (or mothers). (www.angeltree.org)

We found out that one of the kids had moved to Oakland. Not wanting to disappoint that child, we drove up to Oakland and dropped off our last gift.

It was a great time of fellowship. Thanks to everyone who was involved. We look forward to what God will do with HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS in 2012. We wish everyone a Happy New Year.

We were very blessed a couple of weeks ago to have composer, John Graham, come in and teach a class. John is an accomplished film and Television composer. The guys loved the interaction and hearing exactly how John composes his scores. To hear some of John music go to:

www.johngrahammusic.com

Thank you so much John!

We’ve started our hands-on camera class with Ryan Sheridan. Ryan is an accomplished Director of Photography and technical guru who works for the world famous, Otto Nemenz Camera in Hollywood. The guys are absolutely loving Ryan’s class. His enthusiasm is contagious. He’s a terrific instructor who we’re lucky to have.

Otto Nemenz has graciously loaned HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS an entire camera package. Thank you so much Otto Nemenz Cameras and thank you Ryan for all you do.

As a tribute to our good friend and instructor, Brandon “Chandler”, who passed away last May, we held our first “Chandler’s Day Out.” Chandler used to enjoy taking HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS graduates out for a day… Maybe it would be a movie, maybe it would be doing some filming.