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Medium: Season 6: Episode 19 -- When a neighbor is murdered, Allison has a high-tech burglar alarm installed, which she suspects may be communicating with Marie.

This is a video of a live performance of Katrina Ballads & of CNN footage of Anderson Cooper & Mary Landrieu reacting to the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. The KATRINA BALLADS is a brand new collection of songs inspired by the tragic events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. This work uses entirely primary-source texts to paint a rich musical portrait of that devastating and telling week in September 2005. Setting the words of flood survivors, relief workers, politicians and celebrities, New York composer Ted Hearne creates a cutting-edge musical experience and a vivid look into America's darkest hours. The music is rhythmic, theatrical, and American to the core, possessing an edgy post-minimalist drive and a deep jazz influence. It is a moving performance, challenging us to remember and reflect upon our own history. Credits Katrina Ballads Performance as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival May 31, 2007 at the Circular Congregational Church in Charleston, SC composed and directed by Ted Hearne performed by New Music Collective and Yes is a World Allison Semmes, soprano (Mary Landrieu) Anthony Turner, baritone (Anderson Cooper) Abby Fischer, mezzo-soprano Isaiah Robinson, tenor Film footage by Anna Shillinglaw Edited by Farrah Hoffmire

The International Trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire which is a bloodier version of Trailer C. From the producer of Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the director of the Jet Li classic Kiss of the Dragon comes the hotly anticipated, Manga-inspired, live-action feature BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE. Based on the hit anime film of the same title, BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE is an edgy, modern day, English language thriller starring the beautiful South Korean starlet Gianna Jun (Daisy), Allison Miller (17 Again) and Koyuki Katou (The Last Samurai), and will be released in cinemas across the UK on June 26, 2009. On the surface, Saya is a stunning 17-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old halfling. Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil matriarch of all vampires. Using her superhuman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base s general that Saya learns that her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection … BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE, adapted for the big screen by director Chris Nahon (Kiss the Dragon), is produced by Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning producer, William Kong (Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers).

The trailer for Down For Life. There have been a select number of films over the past few decades that have explored the world of girl gangs, most notably Allison Anders's 1993 feature My Crazy Life. But few films, if any, have centred on the story of a young woman trying to leave a gang, which is the core narrative of Down for Life. Riveting, painful and disconcerting in its jagged reality, Down for Life is based on a true story and takes place over the course of one urgent day. Fifteen-year-old gang leader Rascal (Jessica Romero) wakes up in her home in South Central Los Angeles with no hint that this will be a pivotal day in her life. Lovingly hectored by her devoted mother, Esther (Kate del Castillo of Under the Same Moon), about the right clothes for school, Rascal sets off to wait for her coterie of fellow Latina friends on the corner. As the members of her group arrive, they clash with a rival gang of African American girls, and this volatile and violence-ridden encounter sets off a series of events that soon has Rascal on the run for her life. Rascal has an ally, however, in one of her teachers, Mr. Shannon (Danny Glover), who believes she has a talent for writing. He is trying to convince a skeptical principal (Elizabeth Pe a) and his personal friend Mr. Hightower (Snoop Dogg) as well as Rascal herself that she deserves a potentially life-altering opportunity to attend a writers' workshop. Rascal instinctively knows that the choices she faces on this day may mean the difference between life and death, but it isn't until tragedy strikes a close friend that she realizes leaving the gang could be just as dangerous as staying in it. The film was shot on location in the Watts section of Los Angeles, and benefits from the bristling energy of local teens in various roles. Director Alan Jacobs (Nina Takes a Lover) manages to capture the jet-fuelled momentum of Rascal's day while providing quieter moments in which we see the complex vulnerabi