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Bush Profiteers collect billions from NCLB

Much was said about George W. Bush’s fundraising prowess in 2000 and 2004, when... more

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ISFFH Announces Selected Films for 2008 Competition

The 6th annual International Student Film Festival Hollywood (ISFFH) will take place... more

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McCain, Republicans have twice as much cash as Obama

Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain and the Republican National Committee entered the... more

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Bush's calendar empty as McCain & Republicans avoid him

There is an invisible man in the 2008 election: the president of the United States.... more

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Campaign Update 09/15/08

The economy screams and curls up in the corner, Barack Obama raises some serious coin,... more

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Obama fundraising rolls on with new record

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's fundraising... more

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Obama raised $66 million in August, breaks record

Democrat Barack Obama again shattered the monthly record for presidential fundraising, bringing in $66 million in August, according to figures his campaign released this morning.

Obama also expanded his already enormous list of donors, adding more than 500,000 first-time donors in August and bringing to 2.5 million the number of people who have contributed to his campaign since he kicked it off at the start of 2007.

Obama campaign officials have repeatedly used the size of the Illinois senator's donor list as a key reason why they are justified casting the campaign a grassroots movement, and that continued today.

"John McCain says that he'll take on the special interests and lobbyists, but McCain can't fix a problem he's been part of for three decades. The 500,000 new donors to the Obama campaign demonstrate just how strongly the American people are looking to kick the special interests out and change Washington," said David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, in a statement.

The number of donors is significant because most of those who have given have not yet reached the $2,300 contribution limit. That means Obama has a huge pool of supporters to return to this month and next as he seeks to cover the expensive final weeks of campaigning.

Obama released his monthly totals this morning, two weeks after Republican John McCain announced he also had achieved a personal best for a month of raising money -- raising $47 million during the same period.

McCain aides have noted that the Arizona senator is not trailing by nearly as much as it would first appear. That's because both candidates are aided by their respective parties. The Republican National Committee has consistently raised significantly more than its Democratic counterpart. Early reports indicate that in August the DNC again fell far short in fundraising, though the party has yet to make public its totals. Those are due to the Federal Election Commission no later than Sept. 20.

The Obama campaign entered September with $77 million in cash on hand. The amount should help given the breakneck pace of spending by the Obama campaign.

Fundraisers for Obama's campaign said they already believe September could surpass August in money raised, thanks in part to a wave of new donations that followed McCain's announcement of running mate Sarah Palin. They said the Alaska governor's conservative positions have helped galvanize the Democratic donor base in ways they had not seen previously.

Obama's August total surpassed the previous record for a month of fundraising, $55 million, itself set by Obama in February.Democrat Barack Obama again shattered the monthly record for presidential fundraising,... more

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Tracking Campaign Finance

A look at the millions of dollars raised by each candidate through out the campaign in... more

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Perverted False "Cancer" Pastor unlikely to face charges

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Raising funds for water

I am not one to really ask anyone for anything. However, if I may, I would like to ask... more

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Breast cancer survivors raise $1.4 million

In Vancouver thousands of people who have been touched by breast cancer banded... more

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ISFFH announces Mike Medavoy as recipient of the 2008 lifetime achievement award

Robin Saban, Founder and President of the ISFFH, is pleased to announce Mike Medavoy as the recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award to be presented at the 6th annual ISFFH Awards Ceremony on Sun. Nov. 9, 2008 at Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn in North Hollywood.

Mike Medavoy began his career at Universal Studios in 1964. He rose from the mailroom to a casting director. In 1965, he became an agent at General Artist Corporation and then VP at Creative Management Agency. Joining International Famous Agency as VP in charge of the motion picture department in 1971, he worked with such prestigious clients as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Gene Wilder, Jeanne Moreau, and Jean-Louis Trintignant among others. United Artists brought him in as senior VP of production in 1974 where he was part of the team responsible for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, “Rocky”,and “Annie Hall”, all of which won the Best Picture Oscars over three successive years in 1975, 1976, and 1977. In 1990, Medavoy became Chairman of TriStar Pictures. Of all the films Medavoy has been involved with, sixteen have been nominated for Best Picture Oscars and seven have won Best Picture Academy Awards and numerous international festival awards.

Today, as chairman and co-founder of Phoenix Pictures, Medavoy has brought to the screen “The People vs. Larry Flynt”, “The Mirror Has Two Faces”, “U-Turn”, “Apt Pupil”, “ The Thin Red Line”, “The Sixth Day”, “Basic” and “Holes.” These films have received many nominations including from the DGA and WGA for Terrence Malick and they have won several awards. Two of his films, “The Thin Red Line” and “The People vs. Larry Flint”, a Milos Forman movie received Academy nominations. Medavoy has started production on both “Shutter Island,” a film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Di Caprio and “Shanghai,” starring John Cusack.

In 2002, Simon & Schuster published Medavoy’s best-selling book, “You’re Only As Good As Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films and 100 For Which I Should Be Shot”. Mike is also currently working on a book regarding the impact of media on U.S. Foreign Policy together with co-author Nathan Gardel, editor of the National Political Quarterly.

Medavoy has also made a mark in his community, earning numerous awards. He has served on many boards and is one of the original founding members of the Board of Governors of the Sundance Institute (1978) and is chairman emeritus of the American Cinematheque and the Stella Adler Actors Studio. In addition, he was also inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received a star on Hollywood Blvd (2005).

Throughout his career Mike Medavoy has also been active in politics; he actively participated in President Clinton’s election campaigns in 1992 and 1996. In 2002, Governor Gray Davis appointed Mike to the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center’s Executive Advisory Board.

Mike was born in Shanghai, China in 1941 of Russian-Jewish parents, and lived in Chile from 1947 to 1957. At UCLA he was in the honors program and is involved with a number of organizations. He is married to Irena Medavoy, who is a founder of Team Safe-T and the Industry Task Force, as a charity executive and fundraiser. She is also a national finance chair for Senator Obama. Mike Medavoy has two sons, Brian and Nicholas, and resides in Beverly Hills, California.

After years of work in film and theater and passionate about the opportunity to offer student filmmakers well-deserved recognition for their talents, Robin Saban founded the International Student Film Festival Hollywood, focused solely on students in September of 2003.

This year the winner of Best Comedy will receive a paid distribution deal from Fun Little Movies.

The ISFFH is sponsored by American Building Supply, Wells Fargo, CRA/LA, CisCorp, Creative Handbook, Production Hub, Discmakers and Fun Little Movies.
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