Video Conference with filmmaker Robert Greenwald

Students in The Marin School's Politics & Media class spoke with filmmaker Robert Greenwald via Skype on Thursday. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films, and is the director/producer of several documentaries including "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005), and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004).

You can view a short video clip of the video conference or listen to the entire conversation below:

Robert Greenwald Clip from The Marin School on Vimeo.

Video Conference with Robert Greenwald from The Marin School on Vimeo.

TMS Presents Granta magazine's launch of "Best Young Writers in the Spanish Language" Dec. 6th

On December 6, 2010, TMS Presents is co-sponsoring the Granta authors' tour of the Bay Area in partnership with UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies. Celebrating Granta magazine's launch of "Best Young Writers in the Spanish Language", guests will include Andres Solano (Colombia), Carlos Yushimoto del Valle (Peru), Carlos Labbe (Chile) and Daniel Alarcon (Peru/USA).

Authors will read and discuss their work in an interactive discussion with TMS students. The program will be streamed live at www.ustream.tv/channel/tms-presents.

More information on Granta and the writers can be found at www.granta.com/Magazine/113

Video Conference with Filmmaker Taki Oldham

TMS students in Matt O'Donnell's Politics and Media class participated in a video conference with Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham via Skype today. The students watched Taki Oldham's new film Astro-Turf Wars: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution in class last week. You can watch the trailer for Astro-Turf Wars and the video conference below.

Video Conference with Taki Oldham from The Marin School on Vimeo.

Award-winning French film director visits TMS

Eleonore Faucher, award-winning French film director, visited TMS this week to meet with students from the film class taught by Kieran Ridge. The visit was arranged by Kieran and Keith Zwolfer, Education Program Manager for the San Francisco Film Society. Scenes from two of her films, Sequins and Sisters, the latter of which was just released in the US and the former being the winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes film festival, were shown and Ms. Faucher answered questions from the students.

Clips from Sisters can be viewed below.

Students Visit Mother Jones Magazine

Students in Matt O'Donnell's Politics and Media Class were treated to an inside look at Mother Jones Magazine in San Francisco today. Mother Jones President and CEO Madeleine Buckingham welcomed the class and gave them an overview of the magazine and answered questions. The group then heard from research editor Celia Perry and discussed the development of a story that appears in the current issue of the magazine. After a tour of the offices, the students had a Q & A with publisher Steve Katz on how Mother Jones approaches social media. The trip gave TMS students a unique behind-the-scenes view of how the print media operates.

TMS Presents, in partnership with Book Passage, an evening with Summi Kaipa

Celebrating ten years of partnering with Book Passage, The Marin Sschool is c0-hosting with Book Passage an event featuring the author of "Indivisible", the first ever anthology of poetry by American authors of South Asian background.

Summi Kaipa & Contributors - Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry

October 29, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

Book Passage in Corte Madera

For more information visit Book Passage or TMS Presents

The Marin School students observe raptors and count sand crabs

Hawk Hill Raptor Observation - though the road to Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands is closed for construction, the TMS SF Bay Area Ecology class went up to the closest overlook to do their class raptor presentations and look for raptors. The class ran into Alan Fish, the director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, who was thrilled that the students were doing the project he had proposed a few years ago, where each student researched a different raptor presenting their findings to the class. Additional photos can be viewed here.

Sand Crab Monitoring - The TMS biology students worked diligently at Muir Beach to collect and count sand crabs as part of the LiMPETS program administered by the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. Classes from TMS have been monitoring the sand crab population at Muir Beach for years and have witnessed a drastic decline in their population ever since the beach was closed due to the Cosco Busan oil spill. In fact the students did not find any crabs there this year (and for the past few years). Even though they did not find a single crab, that data is still significant. Additional photos can be viewed here.