Richard Skipper's Friday Wrap Up: Caregivers Day AND Cabbage Day! 2/17/2023

Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 9 p.m.

b'For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:\\xa0https://www.youtube.com/live/A-PguWyqmmA?feature=share\\n\\nDebra Solomon has been creating award-winning animation since 1994, the year her first independent film, \\u201cMrs. Matisse,\\u201d debuted in the New York Film Festival\\u2019s opening day program. It won the Young Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival, appeared in over 25 festivals, and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art\\u2019s Film and Video Collection. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a little masterpiece of gallows humor,\\u201d was Village Voice film critic Molly Haskell\\u2019s reaction to \\u201cEverybody\\u2019s Pregnant,\\u201d Solomon\\u2019s next animated film (1998). The film declares the fearlessness and compassion with which her works transform extreme personal experiences into shared, universal journeys. Funded in part by a Jerome Foundation grant, it went on to win many awards. Award-winning filmmaker and Emmy-nominated animator Sherene Strausberg combines her experience in film, music and sound engineering with graphic design and illustration to create animated videos for her clients at the company she founded, 87th Street Creative. Having won a national composition competition in high school, she was awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Indiana University School of Music, where she completed two bachelor\\u2019s degrees in four years. Film scores she wrote in her first career, as a film composer, have been heard on AMC, Spike TV and Netflix. As a graphic designer for Jewish National Fund, she won two awards from Graphic Design USA. Her latest passion project, the short, animated film \\u201cCool For You\\u201d, which she animated and scored, has been accepted to 37 film festivals around the world.'