Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 6 - February 6, 2020
Inside
This Issue
Calendar of Events.............2
Certified & Licensed
Professionals.......................2
Classifieds............................4
Entertainment......................2
Hawthorne............................3
Lawndale..............................4
Inglewood.............................5
Legals............................. 3,6,7
Obituaries.............................2
Pets........................................8
Weekend
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D Smoke Makes an Appearance
at Inglewood High School
Inglewood High Class of 2003 graduate Daniel Farris, known as D Smoke, winner of the Netflix hip hop competition Rhythm + Flow, speaks to students in the importance of staying in school and achieving
your dreams! Photo Inglewood Unified School District.
Everything We Saw at the
Sundance Film Festival
By Ryan and Morgan Rojas
for cinemacy.com
Wake Up
Booksmart director Olivia Wilde and
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star Margaret
Qualley explore the reality of technologyobsessed
culture in the branded short film,
Wake Up. Backed by computer goliath
HP and produced by Anonymous Content,
Wake Up is a beautifully shot cautionary
tale about the increase in isolation caused by
an addiction to technology. When a young
woman (Qualley) wakes up, alone, in a
hospital with no relocation of how she got
there, she sets out to find answers. However,
everyone she attempts to connect with is
transfixed by their smartphone, computer, or
other electronic devices, ignoring the outreach
and bid for belonging from our tech-less
protagonist. Using her dance background,
Qualley gracefully moves and breezes through
New York City’s densely populated area,
literally reaching out to strangers for connection,
eye contact, and acknowledgement.
Shot by legendary cinematographer Mathew
Libatique and scored by indie artist Perfume
Genius, Wake Up is a dreamy foreshadowing
that a world devoid of human connection is
not a joyous one. Let technology aid us in
making the world a more connected place,
not act as barriers to drive us further away
from each other.
– Morgan
Wendy
After Benh Zeitlin first blew audiences away
with his debut film Beasts of the Southern
Wild back in 2012, people have long awaited
the director’s follow-up film. Eight years later,
audiences were finally treated to that film –
Wendy – a re-imagining of the beloved Peter
Pan tale. Co-written with his sister Eliza, Wendy
captures what makes Zeitlin such a visionary and
inspiring filmmaker. Telling the story of Peter
Pan through the eyes of the young protagonist
(Devin France), Wendy shows how Peter (Yashua
Zeitlin’s affinity of conjuring Bayou magical
realism makes this a perfect source material to
adapt and another incredible feature.
Starring an eccentric Elisabeth Moss as
famed author Shirley Jackson and the ever
Wake Up, Wendy, Shirley and Kajillionaire, courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Mack) and the lost boys all came to be.
– Ryan
Shirley
See Film Review, page 2