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On March 10, eight winners were crowned the best of the best at the 2nd Annual L.A. Student Media Festival . The program included moving speeches by the winning student teams with the top award going to Armed with Love , a documentary from a very talented Providence High School team. Each film was judged by a dozen producers, writers, journalists, actors and arts professionals.

From Van Nuys High School, The Flight was named best film in the Animation category:



From Santa Monica High School, Student Trafficking was named best film in the Newscast Public Affairs category:



From Don Bosco Technical Institute, Remembering Home was named best film in the Narrative Series category:



From El Camino Real Charter High School, Collateral Damage was named best Drama:



From Clark Magnet High School, Bicycle Playing Cards was named best film in the Commercial category:



From El Camino Real Charter School, Ball was named best Comedy:



From Providence High School, Armed with Love was named best Documentary:



From Burbank High School, A Good Time was named the best film in the General category:


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Should Downer Animals Be Allowed in the Food Supply? That is the question Evan Kleiman of KCRW's Good Food asked Paul this weekend. When he was in the Assembly, Paul introduced and passed a bill that banned the slaughter of animals too sick or hurt to stand. That law is now the subject of a Supreme Court case.

Listen to the segment, which starts a shade before the eight-minute mark, here.

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Recently, ABC7 ran the following segment on the city's attempt to eliminate mobile billboards. To read more about Councilmember Krekorian's efforts to ban this blight, check out this article for our recent newsletter .


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FilmWorksLA.com PSA by www.ShootMoviesInCalifornia.com.

Following then-Assemblymember Paul Krekorian's successful job creation bill to incentive film and television production in California , FilmWorksLA released a video to highlight the economic importance of the entertainment industry to our state and neighborhoods. The PSA stars Tia Carrere, was shot in Studio City and was produced by ShootMoviesInCalifornia.com . Michael Kehoe and Ed Gutentag directed the piece, which Kehoe wrote. It was produced in cooperation with Paul Audley and Todd Lindgren, president and vice president of FilmLA.
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Mobile Billboards Reappear Despite Law Banning Them: MyFoxLA.com

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Police today named a suspect in the murder of a soon-to-be-wed 34-year-old woman found slain July 24 in her Valley Village home,which the killer set on fire before being chased off by the victim's fiance.

Omar Armando Loera, 34, a heavily tattooed transient with a criminal background, is being sought in the killing of Chere Osmanhodzic.

'I want to send a message to Omar Armando Loera wherever he may be,' said City Councilman Paul Krekorian,  who represents the normally quiet area. 'It doesn't matter how far you run. It doesn't matter how long you hide. We know who you are and we are coming after you.'

If you have any information, please call (818) 623-4016.

 

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