welcome to culture wire. the arabs don t possible has bringing you the best of the arab film to the bay area. this year s festival is no exception. consider the most important arab film festival outside of the arab world, the festival offers a rare window to the arab world and its diverse community. featuring 24 films from over 18 countries, it is also one of the only four runs that showcases new works by established and emerging arab filmmakers. the possible films in four cities. in addition, the festival organizers a film series for high-school students free of charge. this year s lineup offers something for everyone, including shorts, documentary s, comedies, and dramas. [speaking arabic] the mission of the arab film festival, since it its inception in 1996, and it came about members of our community realized there was stereotyping of arabs in the media, and they wanted to change that proactively. they wanted to use the power of film to bring in the stories, to
renting. this is ground-breaking legislation. what it will do is it will allow a domestic violence victim to avoid becoming homeless because of her victimization and it will empower her with the law protecting her ability to maintain a home where she can live and where she can provide shelter for her family. we also brought in recently from the department of justice, my office brought into san francisco $800,000 to provide for bilingual services for domestic violence victims in san francisco. that then will give us the resources that we need to do the outreach in particular with our immigrant victims of domestic violence so that they know that they can trust the system when they report crime and that we will, in fact, protect them and there will be a consequence to their abuser. there is all good work. and obviously, realizing we are going to react when we have to, but we can also prevent and in that way we can be smart. i want to just very quickly, while calls have been up
we have to make sure we are accurate here. i am grateful so many folks came out for the swearing in. in particular, i want to thank you seem so lonely over there. supervisor dufty by himself representing the board of supervisors. the round of applause for him for being here. we are grateful. [applause] i am thankful that a number of department heads live are here at their peril. let me not recognize them. [laughter] but recognize their leader, about to be appointed cao of the city, the chief administrative officer of the city. ed lee is here. [applause] thank you, ed. we appreciate it. we are appointing people to various boards and commissions. you are familiar, i am sure of the good work at the asian arts commission and how proud we are to have this remarkable institution that has not yet gotten the recognition it deserves. it is remarkable around the rest of the world people talk about it but not around our neighborhoods. we need to promote this
beat finland, key west, china. it is the whole world. our plan is to shoot entirely in seven to skill. 95% to 98% will be from san francisco in terms of casting crew. labor and residents. we have already hired many of the people in preproduction work is already in a way. speaking in terms of services, we are looking forward to partnering with the port for various promotional opportunities. some of the things i can tell you i have been working with, things that we can do, in addition to certain film credits and thank you credits in the movie, which has a very long life, hbo has a viewership of approximately 30 million. the average for a feature film is 10 million. right there you will get lots of coverage. in addition to that, we are going to work with the court to produce various, celebratory behind-the-scenes footage of the port of san francisco. there is a program called hbo buzz, it will start being on other films coming out where they highlight the behind-the- scenes for
[please stand by] [please stand by] uwe have to make sure we are accurate here. i am grateful so many folks came out for the swearing in. in particular, i want to thank you seem so lonely over there. supervisor dufty by himself representing the board of supervisors. the round of applause for him for being here. we are grateful. [applause] i am thankful that a number of department heads live are here at their peril. let me not recognize them. [laughter] but recognize their leader, about to be appointed cao of the city, the chief administrative officer of the city. ed lee i here. [applause] thank you, ed. we appreciate it. e are appointing people to varis boards and commissions. you ar familiar, i am sure of the good work at the asian arts commission and how proud we are to have this remarkable institution that has not yet gotten the recognition it deserves. it is remarkable around the rest of the world peoplealk about it but not around our neighborhoods. we need to promo