Celebrating Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and Abraham Lincoln

Hello friends, today is Presidents Day. To celebrate this occasion I have posted information and videos about the Lincoln Film, directed by Steven Spielberg. It was not difficult to choose because the movie is a masterpiece.

February, is also (Black History Month). Please scroll down the front page of the website, to view the "Book of the Month" selection. Finally, Director Steven Spielberg is being honored with the Lincoln Leadership Prize. I provided several links if you want to attend the event. And while you are checking out the front page. Take a look at the new Noise Magazine cover I designed for this special occasion. 

This is not the first film, Steven Spielberg has directed about geocide and human rights. Inspired by his experience Schindler's List, Spielberg established the Suvivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994. And recently, he spoke at the Holocaust rememberance conference. I posted the video from the conference and links that will lead you all to more information. 

I take my leave, with a quote from Schlinder's List "Whoever Saves One Life. Saves The World Entire" 

Have a good day, Love Shelley 

2014 LINCOLN LEADERSHIP PRIZE RECIPIENT

Steven Spielberg, one of the entertainment industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, is a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. Among his myriad of honors, which include the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial and Cecil B. DeMille Awards, Mr. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award® winner having received Oscars®, for Best Director and Best Picture, for the internationally lauded “Schindler’s List,” which received seven Oscars® and a third Academy Award®, for Best Director, for the World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan,” which earned four additional Oscars®.

In 2012, Spielberg directed Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” based in-part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” with a screenplay by Tony Kushner. The film garnered 12 Academy Award nominations winning two Oscars, including Daniel Day-Lewis’ third Oscar for Best Actor playing the iconic 16th President, as well as Best Production Design.

With a history of addressing socially relevant issues, Mr. Spielberg brings films to audiences that reflect on humanity’s moral failings and oftentimes their indifference to issues such as human rights in films like “Lincoln,” “Amistad,” “The Color Purple,” “Schindler’s List,” or war and terrorism in films and TV like “Saving Private Ryan,” “War Horse,” “Munich,” “Band of Brothers,” and “The Pacific.” His films focus on individual courage and celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit.

Mr. Spielberg also devotes his time and resources to many philanthropic causes, having established The Righteous Persons Foundation, as well as the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, now the USC Shoah Foundation. He is also Chairman Emeritus of the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Event Details

The 7th Lincoln Leadership Prize

Dinner Honoring Steven Spielberg

Presented by Sally Field

with Master of Ceremonies Bill Kurtis

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Hilton Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue,

Chicago, IL 60611

Reception 6:00 p.m.

Dinner and Program 7:00 p.m.

Business Attire For further information: 312.553.2000

Purchase a table or ticket online

The Abraham Lincoln President Foundation Website

 

Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

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It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Holocaust Remembrance

Shoah Foundation

United States Holocaust Museum

In 1994, after filming Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with an urgent mission: to chronicle, before it is too late, the firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses, liberators and rescuers.

Recording more than 50,000 unedited testimonies, the largest undertaking of its kind, the Shoah Foundation launched its mission to create a multimedia Archive to be used as an educational and research tool. The Archive is comprised of 200,000-plus videotapes filled with more than 100,000 hours of testimony. To watch the collection straight through in its entirety would now take about 13 years and six months.

The ongoing process of cataloguing each testimony, moment by moment, will give end-users extensive access to the Archive. Technology developed by the Shoah Foundation allows researchers, educators, students, and others to search through the tens of thousands of hours of testimony, creating access to specific information contained within the Archive, for:

• inclusion in repositories and universities worldwide
• video enhancements for museum exhibits
• creation of interactive, traveling exhibits
• development of curricula, including educational CD-ROMs and study guides
• use in documentaries
• coordination of local and regional videotape libraries, internationally

With the world’s largest collection of digitized video testimonies, the Foundation is developing new and innovative ways of disseminating this information to promote tolerance and understanding worldwide.

The dream of making this Archive a reality was made possible by the people throughout the world who dedicated themselves to this common goal. Professionals, among whom include a culturally, ethnically, and religiously diverse group from a variety of backgrounds — more than 3,500 interviewers, 1,000 videographers, 4,000 volunteers, 2,000 community leaders and individuals, and 240 staff members worldwide — have brought with them their collective knowledge, expertise, and experiences.

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is promoting mutual understanding and respect among all races, by enabling people worldwide to see history through the accounts of tens of thousands of individuals who endured and survived the Holocaust.