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2006 Special Recognition

We would like to take just a moment tonight to celebrate the theme for our film festival this year: The Power of Ideas. The power of any idea is making that idea become real. I mean, sure, we can have the idea that we want to make a movie, but actually making the movie to show you tonight is a tremendous amount of very hard work.

Taking a brilliant idea from our heads to the big screen in the hope that it will cause everyone in our audience to have other brilliant ideas that will then help us all make our world a better place is what this festival is all about! It takes very special people with very special gifts to be able to go from an idea to a real finished product.

For the past four years, we have been privileged to enjoy a very special collaboration with a real genius, an actual director and producer in the commercial film industry who has done just that: guided us in taking the power of our ideas and turning them into the finished products that you see tonight. His genius is his amazing ability to help each team of students shape their ideas, to focus on making one compelling point as powerfully as we can possibly make it.

He gives each team of students his professional advice, which we could choose to take or not. We got to meet with him five times throughout the course of our movie project. So not only is he a genius, but he is also amazingly generous with his time. Dr. Tyson says that Mr. Ciralante is not a person; he is an energy. He takes time out from his busy production schedule at Toybox to freely give his genius to the students of Mabry to help make our ideas as powerful as they can be.

Tonight we want to present a small token of our appreciation to our very own man of powerful ideas, Mr. Nick Ciralante.

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Click the link above to download the movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our film festival.

Posted by Dr. Tyson