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Mark studied documentary filmmaking at New York University under renowned documentarian George Stoney. He traveled extensively through East Germany during the period leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. During that time, he picked up his future wife (and Producer Gabriele Hayes) hitchhiking. They were married but were not permitted to leave East Germany until the fall of the wall in 1989.
Gabriele produced the documentary film One Germany, The Other Side of the Wall in 2011. It examines the reunification of Germany after 20 years. It features interviews with the former President of Germany, political prisoners, Stasi (East German secret police) officers, rock musicians, and comedians.
Together with Amanda Pope, he directed the Emmy-nominated The Desert of Forbidden Art. He edited the two times Emmy-nominated HBO doc Valentine Road as well as Finders Keepers, both of which premiered at Sundance. He wrote, co-produced and edited Off The Rails that premiered at Hot Docs and won many awards including Doc NYC FF. He wrote and edited Served Like A Girl that premiered at SXSW. He directed and edited together with Dana Berry for Nat Geo Finding the Next Earth and edited the Emmy-nominated Alien Earths. He also edited on the docs We Live in Public (Grand Jury Prize at Sundance), One Lucky Elephant (Best Doc Editing Award at Woodstock FF) and Bite Size (Best Doc at Cinequest FF) as well as the narrative feature Bastards (MTV Russia Best Film Award). He has produced, directed or edited many hours of television and documentary programming for HBO, PBS, BBC, History Channel, NatGeo, USA Network, STARZ and Amazon Studios.
Ben Dohrmann began his editing career as an assistant to several notable documentarians, including director Ondi Timoner (We Live in Public), editor Brian Singbiel (Bigger Stronger Faster), and the producers of I.O.U.S.A. In 2010, he served as producer and consulting editor on the feature-length documentary Mateo, now available on Netflix.
Other credits include the dark comedy Rocket Science, which won the Sundance directing prize for long time collaborator Jeffrey Blitz, the Miramax comedy Smart People, the dramedy Celeste and Jesse Forever and the mockumentary What we do in the Shadows.
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...[Someone] wanted to do a series about [Bukowski], and wanted me to play him...They came to interview me with Bukowski in San Pedro, and I told them they could make a movie, but never a television series because it would have to be censored, with all his language.
The [California State University at] Long Beach department wanted me to put together a [poetry] reading. Bukowski had just quit his job at the post office and was being supported by [his publisher] John Martin. He said he needed at least 25 dollars [compensation for the reading], and Long Beach department head [gave him] 50.
Silver Lake [with its steep hills] is not the place you want to be driving after drinking, and there was a lot of times when I wondered whether [Bukowski] would get home safe. Silver Lake is also where Linda King, when she was his girlfriend, was a sculptress, and she had done a bust of [Bukowski], and wanted to do a bust of me.
We talked on the phone a lot. Me, from my house in suburbia and Bukowski from his dilapidated bungalow on Carlton way. He was a good listener. He would call me at midnight, and we would talk for two or three hours, while he would drink and I would drink. He would sleep during the day, which helped with the hangovers, and write in the evening, so we always talked very late. On his birthday in 1976, he had a fight with his girlfriend at the time, and we talked on the phone all night, drinking. We fell asleep with the phone to our ears, so I can say that I spent the night with Bukowski, once.
Later in his life, when Bukowski was hanging around the likes of Sean Penn, Dennis Hopper, and (at least once), Madonna, he became a regular in the back room of Musso and Frank Grille, a classier establishment than the dives he previously frequented. Ruben Rueda, one of the the longest continually serving bartenders in Hollywood, told The Los Angeles Times that he would often drive Bukowski home, so that he would not risk another DUI.
But mostly, it was one of the times when we actually got along for a while, while we lived there. Then he started going out and seeing other women, and that was the end of it, because it was my house, and I wasn't gonna let him do that in my house.
A UCLA School of Nursing clinic on Skid Row will be taken over by the County of Los Angeles, officials decided Tuesday. The county hopes to serve 4,000 underserved patients a year with the clinic. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas proposed in his motion to the Board of Supervisors that the LA County DHS acquire the clinic at no cost and continue to provide medical services to only about 4,000 patients annually. This would be a reduction from the 6,000 that the clinic currently serves.
In January 2013, my friends and I volunteered for the New York City Point-in-Time (PIT) count of unsheltered homeless individuals. This survey takes place every year and the data, like data from other PIT counts across the country, is used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for its biannual reports on homelessness in the United States.
Although PIT counts fall short of painting an accurate picture of overall homelessness, they can serve another important function. They give volunteers who survey areas with large numbers of unsheltered homeless the opportunity to get closer to individuals experiencing homelessness, both in physical, as well as emotional, proximity.For a brief moment, the person collecting data is exposed to the same conditions as the homeless and might understand their daily hardships a little bit better.
Elke Weesjes Sabella is former editor of the Natural Hazards Observer. She joined the staff in December 2014 after a brief stint as a correspondent for a United Nations nonprofit. Under her leadership, the Observer was revamped to a more visual format and one that included national and international perspectives on threats facing the world. Weesjes was the editor of the peer-reviewed bimonthly publication United Academics Journal of Social Sciences from 2010 to 2013.
Weesjes Sabella also worked as a research associate for the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, formerly located at Colorado State University (although no longer active). In that role, she collected and analyzed data and translated research findings for a broader audience. She played a central role in finalizing the Disaster Preparedness among Childcare Providers in Colorado project, which examines all-hazards preparedness in daycares and in-home childcare across Colorado. She co-authored the report based on the first stage of the project, which was funded by Region VIII of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Weesjes Sabella specializes in cultural memory and neighborhood/community change in times of acute and chronic stress. She has published articles on the impact of drought on farming communities in Kansas, the effects of Superstorm Sandy in Far Rockaway, Queens, urban renewal in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, and health services for vulnerable populations in the South Bronx.
Weesjes Sabella received her PhD from the University of Sussex. Her dissertation, Children of the Red Flag: Growing up in a Communist Family During the Cold War (2012), as well as the majority of her publication record, share the common methodology of understanding culture and identity through oral history.
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