MEDIA ADVISORY--San Diego Unified Dedicates Motion Pictures Industries Facility Tomorrow

MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Cynthia Reed-Porter 619-546-3378

San Diego Unified Dedicates State-of-the-Art Facility for Motion Pictures Industries Program

WHAT:  San Diego Unified School District has invited students, parents, staff and community members to celebrate the completion of its new Motion Pictures Industries facility at Point Loma High School. The College, Career & Technical Education facility (CCTE) is funded by Proposition S and a California Proposition 1D matching-fund grant. The Motion Pictures Industries Program provides students with a professional working environment while still in school.

WHEN:  Thursday, April 11; ceremony starts at 10:15 a.m. with open house at approx. 10:45 a.m.

WHERE: Point Loma High School, 2335 Chatsworth Boulevard (92106) school website: http://www.pointlomahigh.com/
The event location is near the school's administration office. (Call 619-546-3378 or e-mail creed-porter@sandi.net for site map and parking information.)

VISUALS: Student demonstrations and tours of the new Motion Pictures Industries facility (after the ceremony). The tour includes a screening room, video editing rooms, audio suite, studio, and audio-video hub. Other visuals include the presentation of colors by the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Point Loma Vanguard Band performing the national anthem, guest speakers (including two students), and ribbon-cutting ceremony.

GUEST SPEAKERS/INTERVIEWS: Barbara Samilson, principal; Richard Barrera, board trustee; Jade Martz and Robert Tharp, both seniors in the Motion Pictures Industries Program; Lee Dulgeroff, executive director of Facilities Planning and Construction/Prop. S; and Shawn Loescher, director of College, Career & Technical Education. Staff and other students will also be available for interviews. (Interviews available in English and Spanish.)

BACKGROUND: The Point Loma High School Motion Pictures Industries Program provides career and technical education in the media and design arts pathway of the arts, media and entertainment industry sector. The program prepares students for additional education or for entry-level work in the motion pictures industries. These are important industries in California, and there is a high-demand labor market for qualified technical employees in this field. The California Employment Development Department (EDD, 2012) predicts that California will create 12,900 new jobs for the motion pictures and video industries between 2010 and 2020, an increase of 9.1 percent in the respective industry.

Point Loma High School's new CCTE Motion Pictures Industries facility includes a screening room, video editing rooms, audio suite, studio, audio-video hub, interactive whiteboard, construction tool shed (for building sets), and an instructor's office. This $3.6 million project involved remodeling a 4,804 square-foot portion of the school's Building 900. Construction began in January 2011 and finished in Nov. 2012.

On November 4, 2008, nearly 69 percent of the voters in San Diego passed the $2.1 billion general obligation bond measure, Prop. S, so that San Diego Unified could repair, renovate and revitalize district schools. (By law, bond funds cannot pay for teachers' or administrators' salaries.) For information on Prop. S projects at Point Loma High School see the school's facilities projects web page at https://fpcprojects.sandi.net/Pages/Reports.aspx?SchoolName=9354.

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Cynthia Reed-Porter, Communications Supervisor | Communications Office | San Diego Unified School District
Office: 858-637-3607 | Mobile: (619) 546-3378 | E-mail: creed-porter@sandi.net


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