Main story | Films of the future | Cucalorus Film Fest | Leatherheads on its way Paparazzi are heading to the Piedmont soon to catch a glimpse of George Clooney throwing a football. He’s directing and starring in the film Leatherheads, a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the early days of professional football […]
Fiona Morgan
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Films of the future: Local, indie and low-budget
Main story | Films of the future | Cucalorus Film Fest | Leatherheads on its way When state officials and industry leaders consider the future of film in North Carolina, they’re looking beyond Hollywood. They understand that film isn’t just an industry, it’s an ecology, and independent productions, from the low-budget to the no-budget, are […]
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Cucalorus Film Fest fuels N.C.’s no-budget underground
Main story | Films of the future | Cucalorus Film Fest | Leatherheads on its way Housed in a colorful, funky metal building near downtown Wilmington, Cucalorus Film Festival is über-independent. It awards no prizes at its showings every November. It’s designed to be a meeting place for filmmakers to share their experiences with each […]
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Put on your helmet: Leatherheads is on its way
Main story | Films of the future | Cucalorus Film Fest | Leatherheads on its way It’s been a long road for Duncan Brantley, who sold the script for Leatherheads to Universal Pictures in 1991. It was to be director Steven Soderbergh’s second film after Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), and Mel Gibson was originally […]
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Lori Elmer
Lori Elmer is a staff attorney with Raleigh-based Legal Aid of North Carolina’s farmworker unit. She recently filed two cases on behalf of foreign nationals who say they were promised agricultural work under the H-2A visa federal guest worker program but were held in squalid conditions against their will, never able to earn back the […]
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Fred Stutzman
When Fred Stutzman isn’t working on his Ph.D. at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, he’s working on Internet projects. He recently published academic research on social networking Web sites, including Facebook and MySpace. His quantitative analysis looked at how an entire generation of people share their identities online in unprecedented ways. ClaimID (claimid.com), […]
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Judy Hallman has been connecting nonprofits since the Internet was young
Bridging the divide | Goodwill in Raleigh | Teens teaching teens | One Laptop per Child | e-NC Authority | Connecting nonprofits In 1989, before the Internet as we know it came into existence, a group of geeks in Chapel Hill foresaw a need to share public information in a meaningful way. They set out […]
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Developing a laptop for the children of the developing world
Bridging the divide | Goodwill in Raleigh | Teens teaching teens | One Laptop per Child | e-NC Authority | Connecting nonprofits In the conference room at the Raleigh headquarters of Red Hat, approximately 80 members of the Triangle Linux Users Group crowd around a small laptop computer. Its keyboard is built for a child’s […]
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Goodwill in Raleigh trains thousands on computers around the world
Bridging the divide | Goodwill in Raleigh | Teens teaching teens | One Laptop per Child | e-NC Authority | Connecting nonprofits If you’re addicted to e-mail and you live on the Web, it’s hard to imagine that anyone could be completely unfamiliar with computers. But even here in the high-tech Triangle, there are people […]
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Teens teaching teens to connect
Bridging the divide | Goodwill in Raleigh | Teens teaching teens | One Laptop per Child | e-NC Authority | Connecting nonprofits The Raleigh Boys Club is full of kids in the after-school hours. Away from the roar of the brightly colored main hall, two computer labs offer a quieter place to take classes and […]
