42-701: Steven Thomas Fischer is an American film director, producer, and cartoonist. His work has been honored by the Directors Guild of America , The New York Festivals, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment. Fischer began his career at age 17 as a cartoonist , writing and illustrating freelance. One of his early writing credits is as a contributing writer for Access Budget Europe (1994) published by HarperCollins . In 1991, Fischer moved to London , England and attended classes at
84-578: A lottery , the films are screened in DGA theatres in Los Angeles and New York City to an audience of DGA members and invited potential distributors. Many films have been picked up by distributors via the series that may not otherwise have been spotted. The series was initiated by the DGA's Independent Directors' Committee, chaired by Steven Soderbergh , initially for U.S. films only, but later expanded to include Australian, Irish, British and New Zealand directors, via
126-515: A Certificate from Harvard Medical School upon successful completion, and are eligible for associate membership in the Harvard Alumni Association. Harvard Medical School does not directly own or operate any hospitals and instead relies on affiliated teaching hospitals for clinical education. Medical students primarily complete their clinical experiences at the following hospitals. Clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School generally hold
168-841: A Life in Service (2007, ADG Creative) Telly Award (Winner, History/Biography) Independent Film Festival, Maryland (Official Selection) Freedom Dance (2007, Blue Dog Productions, Inc / Herron Designs) Rosebud Film Festival, Virginia (Winner, Best of Show) Peer Award (Winner, Documentary Under 30 Minutes) CINE Golden Eagle CINE Jury Award CINE Masters Series Award Boston Motion Picture Awards (Finalist) Frozen Moon 2006 Trailer Showdown, Wales, UK (Winner) Show Off Your Shorts Film Fest, Los Angeles (Nominated for Best Documentary) Belvoir (2008, ADG Creative) Telly Award (Winner, Documentary) Independent Film Festival, Maryland, May 2008 (Official Selection) Directors Guild of America The Directors Guild of America ( DGA )
210-618: A Transatlantic Crossing as special guest of SeaDream Yacht Club , and as special guest aboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2 touring the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Fischer's track record also includes the role of Spencer Stanley in The FBI Files (1999) on the Discovery Channel and directing two music videos for Jim Camacho , former front man for the legendary South Florida rock band The Goods . His international work includes documenting
252-442: A five-year lapse, Tony Krawitz's documentary The Tall Man (2012), and in 2014 Catriona McKenzie 's Satellite Boy was selected for the series. Irish entries include Terry McMahon 's Patrick's Day (2014) and Ross Whitaker's Katie (2018). 34°5′52″N 118°21′45″W / 34.09778°N 118.36250°W / 34.09778; -118.36250 Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School ( HMS )
294-455: A lawyer representing Harvard urged Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Salinger to dismiss the lawsuits. Harvard Medical School has gone through many curricular revisions for its MD program. In recent decades, HMS has maintained a three-phase curriculum with a classroom-based pre-clerkship phase, a principal clinical experience (PCE), and a post-PCE phase. The pre-clerkship phase has two curricular tracks. The majority of students enter
336-654: A sassy quick-witted blue dog. Much of their humor relied on heavy dialogue and a sharp clash of personalities . Print cartoons were published in two volumes entitled There's a Blue Dog Under My Bed and The Wonderful, Happy, Cartoony World of Steve & Bluey . Radio plays were released through a variety of broadcasters and radio production groups, most notably the Holiday Broadcasting Company and The Golden Radio Players. Fischer voiced both lead characters. His fiction and non-fiction stories are distinguished by character studies that search for understanding such as
378-1019: A single application, each curricular track independently evaluates applicants. For the MD Class of 2023, 6,815 candidates applied, and 227 were admitted (3.3%). There was a matriculation rate of 73%. For the Master of Medical Sciences (MMSc) program in Global Health Delivery, the Fall 2020 admissions rate was 8.2%. For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Harvard Medical School #1 in Best Medical Schools: Research and tied #22 in Best Medical Schools: Primary Care. There are nine PhD programs based in Harvard Medical School. Students in these programs are enrolled in
420-656: Is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad. Founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1936, the group merged with the Radio and Television Directors Guild in 1960 to become the modern Directors Guild of America. The DGA hosts the annual DGA Awards, an important precursor to the Academy Awards. In its 69-year history,
462-504: Is designed to train physician-scientists with an emphasis on basic physiology and quantitative understanding of biological processes through courses that include Ph.D. students from MIT. Admission to Harvard Medical School's MD program is highly selective. There are 165 total spots for each incoming class, with 135 spots in the Pathways curriculum and 30 spots in the HST program. While both use
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#1733094132763504-948: Is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston , Massachusetts . Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States, and provides patient care, medical education, and research training through its 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes, including Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston Children's Hospital , Dana–Farber Cancer Institute , Brigham and Women's Hospital , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center , Mount Auburn Hospital , McLean Hospital , Cambridge Health Alliance , The Baker Center for Children and Families, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital , and others Harvard Medical School also partners with newer entities such as Harvard Catalyst, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Harvard Stem Cell Institute,
546-574: The Coen brothers . The Coens for years divided credit, with Ethan taking producing credit, Joel taking directing credit, and both of them sharing the writing credit (even though the two of them shared all three duties between themselves) until The Ladykillers in 2004. An example of the DGA refusing to recognize a directorial team was Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller for Sin City ; they were rejected because they had never worked together before; Rodriguez quit
588-1222: The Council for International Exchange of Scholars . Fischer served as a Jury Chair for the CINE Awards in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and was named a jury member in 2014 and 2015. He was named as a member of the jury for the Academy Awards qualifier Chicago International Children's Film Festival in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016. In 2017, he was Jury Chair of the CICFF's Animated Shorts category. Silence of Falling Leaves (2000, TCI Communications) Emmy Award (Nomination) The New York Festivals (Finalist, Cinema and Television Advertising Awards) Telly Award (Winner, Public Service Announcement) Addy Award (Nomination) Camp Med (2005, NVCC-TV) Telly Award (Winner, Informational Programming) The Videographer Awards (Winner, Award of Distinction) Houdini (2005, Broken Records) Telly Award (Winner, Music Video) Gold Remi Award (Winner, Music Video, World Fest International Film Fest, Houston, Texas) Great Lakes Film Festival, Pennsylvania (Official Selection) Draw
630-596: The Directors Guild of America with the promotional film production This is CLEARCorps , for and about AmeriCorps . In 1997, Marquis Who's Who selected Fischer for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment . In 2010, The Daily Record named Fischer as one of 60 Influential Marylanders. In 2013 and 2022, Fischer was awarded the honor of Fulbright Specialist by the Fulbright Program , The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and
672-681: The Emmy Award -nominated docu-drama Now & Forever Yours: Letters to an Old Soldier , dramatizing the true story of a secret romance between Major Joseph Willard, a Union officer, and Antonia Ford , a Southern belle , during the American Civil War . His 60-second Polish-language public service announcement, Silence of Falling Leaves (which he wrote, produced, and directed for The Polish National Alliance and TCI Communications of Baltimore), aired in Poland through TVP Polonia in 2000. According to
714-539: The London Cartoon Centre while developing proposals for animated films and television programs. Most notable were his Steve & Bluey cartoons which later aired in America through TCI Communications of Baltimore. The cartoons revived a vaudevillian style of family entertainment influenced by Fischer's childhood idols, Abbott & Costello . Steve & Bluey featured a young nerdy boy named Steve partnered with
756-500: The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation . The WGA tried to limit possessory credits to writers, but has always been successfully opposed by the DGA, leaving directors free to try to negotiate such credits if they wish. Not all Hollywood directors are DGA members. Notable exceptions include George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez . Quentin Tarantino directed six feature films before becoming a DGA member, in 2012. Those who are not members of
798-574: The Arts , Nalco/Ecolab, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County . In 2007, Fischer directed Mariska Hargitay in Freedom Dance , the critically acclaimed animated documentary about the escape of a young couple from Communist Hungary to the United States during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . In 2011, he produced and directed Old School New School , a personal study on creativity in which
840-726: The Center for Primary Care, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering . Harvard Medical School was founded on September 19, 1782, on the initiative of Harvard President Joseph Willard . The founding faculty were John Warren , Aaron Dexter, and Benjamin Waterhouse . It is the third-oldest medical school in the United States, after the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons . Lectures were first held in
882-638: The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has been a near perfect barometer for both the Best Director, and in some cases, the Best Picture Academy Award. Only seven times has the DGA Award winner not won the corresponding Best Director Academy Award. Honorees are awarded with a statue manufactured by Society Awards . The rule that a film can only have one single director
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#1733094132763924-522: The DGA so that Miller would share director's credit. For the film Bohemian Rhapsody , director Bryan Singer was fired due to frequent absences and clashing on the set, with Dexter Fletcher replacing him with two weeks left of filming. Singer still received director credit and Fletcher received executive producer credit. In the past, the DGA has also engaged in disputes with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) over possessory credits , first used in
966-634: The Division of Medical Sciences in Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and are part of the HILS (Harvard Integrated Life Sciences) inter-program federation. Harvard Medical School offers two types of master's degrees, Master of Medical Sciences (MMSc) degrees and Master of Science (MS) degrees. Harvard Medical School offers several Postgraduate Certificate programs. These graduate-level programs may run up to twelve months. Admitted participants are awarded
1008-729: The International Association of English-Speaking Directors Organisation (IAESDO). By 2007, the series had screened more than 75 films. The DGA has collaborated with organisations such as the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) and the Australian Directors' Guild (ADG), which nominate one film to participate. Australian entries, selected for the Finders Series Award by the ADG from a shortlist of four, include Boxing Day (2007), directed by Kriv Stenders ; and after
1050-776: The Latvian news portal, TVNet, the film consisted entirely of images of falling autumn leaves with a sound track cut to a narration in Polish by the Warsaw-born artist Bozena Jedrzejczak. The cinematographer was Fischer's longtime friend and collaborator, John Chester . Baltimore Magazine described the multi award-winning PSA as, "an art film trapped inside a commercial." His personal and artful style of storytelling has been utilized in films for organizations including Maryland Public Television , TV Asia , Nextel /NII Holdings, DuPont , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , National Foundation for Advancement in
1092-492: The Line: An Animator's Showcase (2006, NVCC-TV) CINE Golden Eagle (winner, Documentary Short) Telly Award (Winner, Arts & Leisure Programming) Gold Remi Award (Winner, Documentary, World Fest International Film Fest, Houston, Texas) Now & Forever Yours: Letters to an Old Soldier (2007, NVCC-TV) Telly Award (Winner, Cinematography) Emmy Award (Nomination, Cinematography) Francis Scott Key: Legacy of
1134-459: The basement of Harvard Hall , then in Holden Chapel . Students paid no tuition but purchased tickets to five or six daily lectures. The first two students graduated in 1788. In the following century, the school moved locations several times due to changing clinical relationships, a function of the fact that Harvard Medical School does not directly own or operate a teaching hospital. In 1810,
1176-462: The director, who also appears on camera, crisscrosses the United States to learn about voice, security versus risk, and the meaning of success. The film features the Emmy Award -winning actor Brian Cox , multi Grammy Award -winning jazz pianist McCoy Tyner , Tony Award -winning producer Emanuel Azenberg , and five-time Academy Award -nominated cinematographer William A. Fraker among many other acclaimed artists. The distributor SnagFilms acquired
1218-569: The faculty established a commission on relations with the black community in Boston; at the time less than one percent of Harvard medical students were black. By 1973, the number of black students admitted had tripled, and by the next year, it had quadrupled. In 2011, HMS appointed its first African American full professor of medicine, Valerie E. Stone . That year they also appointed their first African-American professor of radiology , Stone's former classmate Tina Young Poussaint . In 2019 LaShyra Nolen
1260-727: The film in 2011. In 2020, Films Media Group acquired the film as academic distributor. In 2014, Fischer released an updated version of the Steve & Bluey book The Wonderful, Happy, Cartoony World of Steve & Bluey (originally published in 2002 ), telling the exploits of a cartoon comedy team trying to make it in animated show business. To promote the release, Fischer launched a world tour offering creativity lectures and cartoon storytelling workshops at venues including Harvard Medical School (Boston), St. John's College Film Institute (Santa Fe, NM), The Second City Training Center (Chicago, IL), Debreceni Egyetemi Színház Theatre Festival (Hungary), on
1302-401: The first Irish National Tour of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play Coole Lady , a historical play about the life of Lady Gregory by noted playwright and W. B. Yeats biographer Sam McCready . In 2014, as a Fulbright Program Specialist, Fischer was a guest teacher at University of Debrecen , Hungary, presenting a course on Cartoon Storytelling. In 1996, Fischer was accepted into
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1344-643: The guild are unable to direct for the larger movie studios, which are signatories to the guild's agreements that all directors must be guild members. The following are the past Presidents of the Screen Directors Guild and the DGA: The Director's Finder Series (or Director's Finder Screening Series), inaugurated in December 1998, provides for the screening of independent films with no U.S. distributor, and no previous TV or other distribution. Selected by
1386-515: The medical school admitting women medical students on the same terms as men. A similar offer of $ 50,000, by a group of ten women including Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska , was declined in 1882; a committee of five was appointed to study the matter. After the medical school moved from North Grove Street to Boylston Street in 1883, professor Henry Ingersoll Bowditch 's proposal that the North Grove Street premises be used for medical education for women
1428-809: The medical school in the worst condition of any part of the university. He instituted drastic reforms that raised admissions standards, instituted a formal degree program, and defined HMS as a professional school within Harvard University that laid the groundwork for its transformation into one of the leading medical schools in the world. In 1906, the school moved to its present location in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area . Harvard Medical School postdoctoral trainees and faculty have been associated with several important medical and public health innovations: In mid-1847, professor Walter Channing 's proposal that women be admitted to lectures and examinations
1470-498: The more traditional Pathways track that focuses on active learning and earlier entry into the clinic with courses that include students from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine . Pathways students gain early exposure to the clinic through a longitudinal clinical skills course that lasts the duration of the pre-clerkship phase. A small portion of each class enters the HST track, which is jointly administered with MIT . The HST track
1512-622: The school moved to Boston at what is now downtown Washington Street. In 1816, the school was moved to Mason Street and was called the Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University in recognition of a gift from the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. In 1847, the school was moved to Grove Street to be closer to Massachusetts General Hospital . In 1883, the school was relocated to Copley Square. Before this move, Charles William Eliot became Harvard's president in 1869, and found
1554-448: The weakest third of all-male classes with better-qualified women. By 1972, about one-fifth of Harvard medical students were women. In 1850, three black men, Martin Delany , Daniel Laing Jr. , and Isaac H. Snowden , were admitted to the school but were later expelled under pressure from faculty and other students. In 1968, in response to a petition signed by hundreds of medical students,
1596-493: Was adopted to preserve the continuity of a director's vision and to avoid producers and actors lobbying for a director's credit, or studios hiring multiple directors for a single film or television episode. The rule is waived only for directorial teams recognized by the DGA who have a history of working together and sharing a common vision. Examples include The Wachowskis , Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris , Hughes brothers , Russo Brothers , Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and
1638-408: Was asked to withdraw her application. Shortly after Elizabeth Blackwell 's graduation from Geneva College in 1849, Hunt applied to Harvard again, but was denied. In 1866, two women with extensive medical education elsewhere applied but were denied admission. In 1867, a single faculty member's vote blocked the admission of Susan Dimock . In 1872, Harvard declined a gift of $ 10,000 conditioned on
1680-451: Was rejected by the President and Fellows of Harvard College . That year Harriot Hunt became the first woman to apply to Harvard Medical School. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. had recently been made Dean of the school and initially considered accepting her application. He was heavily criticized by the all-male student body as well as the university overseers and other faculty members, and she
1722-409: Was rejected. In 1943, a dean's committee recommended the admission of women, the proportion of men and women being dependent solely on the qualifications of the applicants. In 1945, the first class of women was admitted; projected benefits included helping male students learn to view women as equals, increasing the number of physicians in lower-paid specialties typically shunned by men, and replacing
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1764-567: Was the first black woman to be elected class president of Harvard Medical School. On June 14, 2023, the morgue manager for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School, Cedric Lodge , and associates were criminally charged with theft of human organs by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania . Twelve lawsuits were subsequently filed against the school by families of Lodge's victims. On January 17, 2024,
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