JEDDAH: Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah has teamed up with the New York Film Academy to run a five-day course to give students in Jeddah filmmaking basics.
After learning the basics, they were asked to put what they had learned into practice by writing, directing and producing short films.
As the students learned so much in five days, certificates were handed out to them at a ceremony on July 8 at the university.
The ceremony took place in the presence of the television director Gilbert Shilton (Law & Order, The Big Easy), Tami Alexander, vice president of the New York Film Academy, and Fahad Al-Shaikh, a Saudi student of the academy. The short films that the students made were screened and appreciated with applause. Each film conveyed a different message and was proof of the creativity, potential and passion of the student.
After the films were screened, Gilbert Shilton distributed the certificates to the students and sat down for the conference.
“I just talked to the students for two days, and in those two days they were able to make these films. Imagine what they can do in six months or in a year?” he said.
Shilton took questions from the audience, answering them in detail. He said he had been greatly impressed by the students’ work over the past few days.
“The thing that touched me was the innocence of the students here,” he said. “Your work should reflect your cultural heritage and norms of the place you represent,” he added.
Saudi students get crash course from New York Film Academy
Saudi students get crash course from New York Film Academy
- The short films that the students made were screened and appreciated with applause
Some Warren Buffett wisdom on his last day leading Berkshire Hathaway
OMAHA, Nebraska: The advice that legendary investor Warren Buffett offered on investing and life over the years helped earn him legions of followers who eagerly read his annual letters and filled an arena in Omaha every year to listen to him at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings.
Buffett’s last day as CEO is Wednesday after six decades of building up the Berkshire conglomerate. He’ll remain chairman, but Greg Abel will take over leadership.
Here’s a collection of some of Buffett’s most famous quotes from over the years:
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“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”
That’s how Buffett summed up his investing approach of buying out-of-favor stocks and companies when they were selling for less than he estimated they were worth.
He also urged investors to stick with industries they understand that fall within their “circle of competence” and offered this classic maxim: “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.”
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“After they first obey all rules, I then want employees to ask themselves whether they are willing to have any contemplated act appear the next day on the front page of their local paper to be read by their spouses, children and friends with the reporting done by an informed and critical reporter.
“If they follow this test, they need not fear my other message to them: Lose money for the firm and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm and I will be ruthless.”
That’s the ethical standard Buffett explained to a Congressional committee in 1991 that he would apply as he cleaned up the Wall Street investment firm Salomon Brothers. He has reiterated the newspaper test many times since over the years.
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“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”
Many companies might do well when times are good and the economy is growing, but Buffett told investors that a crisis always reveals whether businesses are making sound decisions.
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“Who you associate with is just enormously important. Don’t expect that you’ll make every decision right on that. But you are going to have your life progress in the general direction of the people you work with, that you admire, that become your friends.”
Buffett always told young people that they should try to hang out with people who they feel are better than them because that will help improve their lives. He said that’s especially true when choosing a spouse, which might be the most important decision in life.
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“Our unwavering conclusion: never bet against America.”
Buffett has always remained steadfast in his belief in the American capitalist system. He wrote in 2021 that “there has been no incubator for unleashing human potential like America. Despite some severe interruptions, our country’s economic progress has been breathtaking.”
