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	<title>Elixir: a Compass Film Academy Publication</title>
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		<title>Ruminations on Fog with Screenwriter David Weiss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom.lowe</dc:creator>
		
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David Weiss remembers chasing the fog. Although it was an illusive chase, Weiss made more than one attempt. The lesson learned would eventually lead him to co-writing the script for one of the most anticipated 3D films in years, The Smurfs.
As a boy, from his home in Ventura, California, he would watch the fog roll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing When to Run it by Legal:  The Role of Attorneys in the Filmmaking Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joseph.voss</dc:creator>
		
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Most aspiring filmmakers know that at some point, if they are going to get serious about producing a film that has the potential to succeed commercially, they will need to work with attorneys to make sure that the legal affairs of their project are properly handled.  So the question of when to engage an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close Up: Jeremy Waterbury</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/07/close-up-jeremy-waterbury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Koons</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of years from now, it’s quite possible that Jeremy Waterbury’s name will still be on lips of Christian artists throughout the world. The 2009 Compass graduate from Muncie, Indiana, is a testament of blind faith, complete trust in God, and his calling to be a filmmaker.
Shortly before the 2008-2009 classes began, Waterbury and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Greenberg: The Art of Editting</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/07/tom-greenberg-the-art-editting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom.lowe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Greenberg has a message for film directors, and it’s the same message he has for directors of photography. The only person his message might not be for in the creative chain is the screenwriter.
“The screenwriter is first in the production process. The editor is last,” says Greenberg, from his edit suite at Compass Film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Lights, Camera, Animals” - Compass Film Academy Roll with Themes</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/07/%e2%80%9clights-camera-animals%e2%80%9d-compass-film-academy-roll-with-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil.worfel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Eagle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MI]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/?p=1151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What could a pig farm have in common with Victorian England or a cutting edge barber shop? All three subjects are part of the stories in thesis films currently being produced by Compass Film Academy’s class of 2010. The projects this year are some of the most ambitious and complicated productions in the school’s history. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tail Slate # 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/07/tail-slate-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Lowe</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>CFA Board of Advisors Adds Four More Experts</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/cfa-board-of-advisors-adds-four-more-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/cfa-board-of-advisors-adds-four-more-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Koons</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Come On Over]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dove]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tanis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Compass Film Academy continues to strengthen its position as the region’s premiere film school with the addition of Mark Clayman, Dick Rolfe, Joel Schoon Tanis, and Dr. Paul Worfel to its Board of Advisors.
Clayman, a Los Angeles-based producer,  initiated development and served as Executive Producer on Sony’s box office hit, “The Pursuit of Happyness.” The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFA Certification Featured in Grand Rapids Business Journal</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/cfa-certification-featured-in-grand-rapids-business-journal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/cfa-certification-featured-in-grand-rapids-business-journal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Koons</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s getting more difficult for Compass Film Academy to fly below the radar.

The 10-year-old private vocational school, which instructs students in movie script writing and film production and is located on Fifth Street near Seward in northwest Grand Rapids, was certified in late May for Title IV financial aid from the federal government. Title IV is offered to college students through Pell grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity grants, Perkins loans and other subsidized and unsubsidized direct loans.]]></description>
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		<title>High School Film Camp Produces &#8220;Future Ken Burns&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/high-school-film-camp-produces-future-ken-burns/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/high-school-film-camp-produces-future-ken-burns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Koons</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Blake Cortright is all smiles.  And he should be.  Because it’s almost unheard of for a 16-year-old to produce a documentary and have it air on PBS television.  Blake took the skills he learned from Compass Film Academy’s Summer Film and Acting Camps, and used them to produce The First Encampment.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Lowe Presents: Tail Slate # 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/tail-slate-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/2010/06/tail-slate-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Koons</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.compassfilmacademy.com/?p=1092</guid>
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