Cathy Maria Coughlin: He's dangerous but sincere. Nurse Paine: Sincerely dangerous. Maria Coughlin: No, he's dangerous *because* he's sincere. (From Hal Hartley's TRUST) VIEW ANOTHER RANDOM THOUGHT Cathy de la Cruz Cathy de la Cruz is a filmmaker and writer originally from San Antonio, Texas. Cathy received her Bachelors degree from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA in 2003 where she was a recipient of several research and projects grants to fund her filmmaking endeavors. In 2008, Cathy completed her MFA candidacy at the University of California, San Diego where she was a San Diego Fellow. Cathy has been a film festival programmer for several film festivals and screenings and has worked in various capacities of the film and video industry. Most recently, Cathy was the Youth Film Instructor at the 2008 San Diego Women's Film Festival. Cathy has a wide range of teaching experience, including teaching documentary video production to junior high students to teaching film and video production and theory to upper division college students. Cathy has shown her films both nationally and internationally and has written about her own filmmaking processes through contributions featured in the books, This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America (Three Rivers Press, 2005) and Betsy Greer's Knitting for Good!: A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change Stitch by Stitch (Trumpeter, 2008). CURRENT ACTIVITY Lead Instructor in Camera-Less Animation Observer in Movie Madness Observer in Animation Overload! Lead Instructor in Summer of Screenwriting Lead Instructor in Movie Madness: Directing! Lead Instructor in Filmmaking in Action Observer in Documenting Reality Observer in Movie Madness: Storytelling! Observer in Completing Your Comics! Lead Instructor in Youth Art Internship Workshop Organizer in Internship program Invitee in BMS Think Tank

Document This! Photography & Writing Throughout the session, students were asked to document their reflections of the Venice and Santa Monica beach communities, using both writing and photography as mediums of expression. They were asked to focus on a specific theme or idea, action, setting, person or place in the communities that they could relate to their own personal experiences. Each week the students were asked to revisit their theme with the addition of learned photographic techniques as well as keep a written journal. As the students' technical knowledge of the cameras deepened and their journal entries became more and more descriptive, the 'themes' they had each chosen began to form visually and furthermore, as a ground-wide collaboration. Ocean, movement, action, relationships, all came to represent an 'insider view' of young adults who live in a community that carries varied meanings to those who were born and raised there, to those who move in. It has been an absolute pleasure to witness the students' growth and artistic expressions. Curated by Cathy | Items: 10

Evelyn's Story My name is Evelyn Alvarez. I have been doing photography for about 5 years now; its become my true passion. I love every part of it--from the processing to the development of the photographs. My main focus is children and their environment. I love showing people the expression of children in different environments. I also love shooting portraits as well as capturing the moments least expected. Curated by Venice Arts | Items: 16

Best of Comics Summer 2010 The 2010 Venice Arts Summer Comics Workshop Anthology “Here, There & Everywhere” is a collection of single page, fictional stories from Venice Arts students. The title, "Here, There & Everywhere" pertains to our central theme that parallels factual problems of planet Earth transformed into newly chosen and created backdrop settings of other planets within our solar system!... Expect stories told from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and even the Milky Way's moons such as Ganymede and Oberon!... 14 pages in Full Color!" Curated by Michael | Items: 10

Scott: A work in progress What's Your Story documents Venice resident, Scott Mayers. Curated by Cathy | Items: 11

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