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Today I submitted my summary of the Rob Nilsson Project, the building of the citizencinema.net, to Dr. Klaschus, the head of the Honors department at Las Positas College. This post includes content from the official summary.

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Last year I returned from Los Angles with 3 goals. One was to be closer to my family, two was to start my own creative consulting business, and three was to work under legendary Cinema Artist Rob Nilsson. Soon after returning, through Las Positas College (LPC), I discovered a passion for humanities and general institutional education. Since then, I have synchronized the development of my initial three goals with a fourth, to pursue degrees in Multi-Media and Humanities. The Rob Nilsson Project represents the harmony of my personal goals with occupational, social, and spiritual objectives.

My honors academic activity involved synchronizing key relationships, raising project funds, extensive planning, scheduling, team management, creative direction, development, production, and, most importantly, fulfillment. Following is a brief summary of the process.

First, this project was possible because of the support and contributions from family, friends, and the community. To initiate the project, I simply coordinated the synchronization of key relationships: LPC Students, LPC Instructors, The LPC Design Shop, The LPC Foundation, Fredda Cassidy, Dr. Philip Manwell, Dr. Tedd Kaye, Rob Nilsson and those who believed in us and supported us.

Extensive planning started with the initial inspiration. Shortly after, a master blueprint was formulated. Then, I broke the master into stages. These stages included unique plans for fundraising, production, and fulfillment. Each preparation was a portion of the bigger picture, i.e., to create a website solution.

After funds were raised, we, the LPC students and I, began production of the website’s “look and feel” and dynamic backend structure. The “look and feel” is how the site physically looks and navigates, and the dynamic backend structure makes it possible for Rob and his team to easily update the site with news and articles. Both the “look and feel” and dynamic development were production stages, and we collaborated with Rob Nilsson throughout the process.

Once we completed production, I started fulfillment. Fulfillment is delivery of the website to the World Wide Web, i.e., for the world to see. Delivery was synchronized with Rob’s announcements for the Mill Valley Film Festival and his 9@night Film series retrospective to be held at Harvard in the coming months. The synchronization included dedicated local news articles and email newsletter marketing for promoting the events and the new website. The outcome of our project is now live for the world to see.

Three of my four great cinematic influences, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and Akira Kurosawa, have past. I am fortunate to have returned to the Bay Area to work with Rob Nilsson, my last living great cinematic influence. And I am glad to have gained support of my family, community, and college, for with out their philanthropic spirit, this website, a piece of cinematic history, would not exist.