Announcing Season 2 of Tom Lopez’s 4-Minute Film Noir
4-Minute Film Noir, fun videos that take film noir caricatures and blend them with stellar wit, timing, and sense of humor. Watch the 1st episode of the new season above.
Tom Lopez is one of the founders and president of the ZBS Foundation. ZBS is a not-for-profit arts organization that has been in existence since 1970. For 35 years they’ve been producing radio/audio stories. 4-Minute Film Noir is Tom’s first effort in the realm of visual story telling.
About 4-Minute Film Noir:
Joe, Moe, & Flo, two guys and a gal who like to have a drink and tell about tough dames, little weasels, hot tomatoes, thugs, cons, cops, suckers and sweethearts.
They come from a world of crime, hard-boiled detectives and cold-blooded criminals. But Joe, Moe, and Flo have a sense of humor. They can laugh about a fat lawyer being flattened by a steam roller, or an Indian who is a fall guy in a land fraud, or a ruthless gangster whose mother drives him nuts, or Polish bank robbers who dress up like Tonto and call each other Kemo Sabe.They have pretty much seen it all, they can find humor in the strangest places. You might say it’s how they deal with life. You might even find yourself laughing along with them.
Isla Earth is nominated for Best Investigative/Series and Best Multimedia Package at the 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
On June 14th, hundreds of journalists from Los Angeles and the Southland will gather to honor their colleagues when the Los Angeles Press Club presents its 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
Editors, reporters and supporters of quality journalism will gather at the newly renovated Sheraton Universal in Universal City to see recipients honored for their work in broadcast, print and online media.
Last year, the Isla Earth Radio Series won first place in the News Bureau category at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 50th Annual Journalism Awards gala on Saturday, June 21, 2008.
ISLA EARTH — A radio series that explores today’s most important challenges to the environment and impressive successes in conservation. These entertaining, science-based, modules encourage ecological awareness, deepen understanding of our natural world, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices. Produced by the Catalina Island Conservancy.
LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, mp2, and via Podcast
This program was produced for broadcast on non-commercial and public radio stations in California and around the country. It describes the dire state of California’s prison system, how the crisis evolved over a 25 year period, and solutions for addressing the crisis. To listen to “Prisons In Crisis” or to download the program for free, visit http://www.californiaprisoncrisis.org
On March 20, 2009, NPR’s Day to Day and News & Notes aired their respective final episodes. The loss of both of these daily shows will impact the exposure of independent producers nationwide.
4-Minute Film Noir, fun videos that take film noir caricatures and blend them with stellar wit, timing, and sense of humor. Watch the 1st episode of the new season above.
PRISONS IN CRISIS: A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CALIFORNIA a searing documentary about California’s penal system. Probing the roots of the crisis while examining tentative solutions from Polk Award winner, JoAnn Mar has won three awards–the 
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