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Two weeks ago, we had another field trip for our students at Nickerson Gardens. We brought them to Carolyn Fallin’s recording studio in Burbank to try their hand at voice over recording.

They all did a terrific job and had a lot of fun. A couple of the guys may look toward sound recording as a profession. This was a day they’ll all remember for a very long time. Thank you Carolyn for sharing your truly God given gifts.

We’ve got to give a big shout out of thanks to 20th Century Fox! They have donated 3 Protools systems, (2) JVC HD Cameras and some terrific lighting equipment. Everyone at HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS wants to say THANK YOU FOX!!

The Nickerson Gardens program is rolling along nicely, but this week we want to bring you up to speed on what’s been happening at the Jail Program… Stan Cassio finished up basic, technical Avid editing and he turned it over to our creative editing teacher Brandon “Chandler” who has been teaching our guys creative editing.

Chandler finished his basic instruction last week and now has created (5) inmate/student teams who will compete in creating a HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS promo video. We’re excited to see what the guys come up with.

There is a lot happening! I’m going to start with our program at Nickerson Gardens in Watts. This last week, our students had their second class held on the Fox Lot. They have really enjoyed it and have finally begun to open up to the possibilities…

These classes went over both production and post production and the careers they have to offer. They got to tour the entire Fox Lot; visiting Wardrobe, Grip & Electric, the Foley Stage and Fox Sports. But one of their highlights was visiting the scoring stage where Fox had an 80 piece orchestra. One of those 80 was our very own Cyndi Hall, who took some time to share her journey.

One of the truly neat developments in this ministry is that some of our alumni from the Pitchess Detention Center Program, who’ve now been out of jail for over 6 months, are coming alongside our kids at Nickerson Gardens. It’s coming full circle! Praise God!

Next week I’ll cover all the amazing things that are going on with Semester 3 at Pitchess Detention Center. Thank you all for your continued support.

Hollywood Impact Studios continues to grow. We’ve started our third semester at the Pitchess Detention Center with (28) student/inmates. We’re also excited to announce that we’ve started a second program, this time, at The Nickerson Gardens Rec Center in Watts, California. We have (13) students ranging in age 13 to 21. Besides teaching in the classroom they will be taking some exciting field trips and will get some hands-on workshops. We’re excited to see what God does with this new program.

Here’s some video from the story below. HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS alumni out shooting footage in Hollywood! Good going guys!

YouTube – HIS Alumni – working the camera

Our Director of Photography instructor, Chris Fallin, is so amazing and dedicated. He continues to come alongside our HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS grads as they come out of jail. Last weekend we went out with him as he took them for a shoot throughout Hollywood. They got some real hands-on camera training.

Way to go guys. Thanks Chris Fallin!!

We received a very sweet note from one of our grads. Here’s what he wrote:

“Hollywood Impact Studios has assembled a great team that have given us hope and the desire to succeed in life. Something many of us lost along the lines. I’m very proud to be a part of it. Once again, thanks to you, Cyndi, Stan, Chris, Carol, Chris A, Josh, Chandler and the rest of team I forgot to name.”
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I share this with all of you so you can see how God is changing lives through this program. Thank you to all of our supporters. God gets all the Glory from this program.

BONES is another one of the shows I oversee as part of my job at Fox. It was interesting ecause this season, David Boreanaz directed an episode. He did a very good job! Watch this video to see how the rest of the cast reacted…

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We’re proud to announce that our second semester class has graduated. We started with 36 student/inmates and after twelve weeks only (8) remained. But we’re very proud of those (8). As in our first semester we gave out scholarships from Mole-Richardson Lighting, The Mostin Family and 20th Century Fox Animation. We also gave (2) writing prizes for best short screenplay.

Congratulations Class 10-09!