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Current Class Reunions:

Class of 1982

The Graduating Class of 1982
invites you to our 30th Class Reunion

Saturday, July 28th
Cocktail & Hors d'Oeuvres Party

at

Inn Marin (Rickey's)
250 Entrada Drive-Novato

Join us in their
beautiful outdoor garden setting

7pm to 11pm

Please visit 
www.innmarin.com
for additional hotel information

Thank You

For more info goto Reunion info  

Video earns Marin-born filmmaker a trip around the world
by Paul Liberatore of the Marin IJ | 01/04/2010

Twenty-four-year-old Tamara Rosenfeld, a former student of the year at Terra Linda High School, has taken her place among the next generation of young, award-winning filmmakers. She quite literally has the world at her feet.

In October, she won an international film competition with a prize that included $10,000 euros (about $15,000) to spend on a trip around the world as a roving filmmaker-reporter interviewing mothers and their children about their lives, hopes and dreams.

"This is something I've always wanted to do," she said the other day as she prepared for her trip, which will take her to Brazil next month, then to China in the spring, followed by the summer in Europe.

"I love traveling and I love filmmaking, so it's a combination of my two favorite things," she said. "But it's a little nerve wracking. It's a lot to prepare for. I'll be going more or less on my own. It's an exciting challenge, for sure."

The contest she won was sponsored by Mofilm, a company that organizes competitions for filmmakers to create commercials for brands like Pepsi, ATT and Best Buy, then showcases the winners at various film festivals around the world. It's slogan is "Get Creative - Get Noticed - Get Famous!"

Rosenfeld, who graduated from Terra Linda High in 2004 and went on to earn a degree in film production from the University of Southern California, has the creative part down, and the contest has gotten her noticed. She's even had a taste of what it's like to be famous.

After she was told she had won, she was flown in October to London and given the red carpet treatment at the London Film Festival, where her video was screened before the premiere of the Clive Owen movie "The Boys Are Back."

"I was stoked," she said. "I walked the red carpet and attended some very nice upscale parties and gatherings. It was so exciting."

Rosenfeld's winning video, "Dirt Rocks!," is a 60-second spot for Omo, a European brand of laundry detergent whose slogan is "Dirt is good." In the ad, a 10-year-old girl with paint and dirt on her clothes and face romps around in a muddy creek, picking wildflowers as a birthday present for her mom.

The little girl sneaks into the house and surprises her mother with the wildflowers and a hand-painted "Happy Birthday" sign just as mom walks in the door with an armload of groceries and drops them on the floor in shock. The girl looks worried until her mother realizes the sweet gesture and hugs her in a kind of "awwww" ending. The ad has just three words in it, "Happy birthday, Mommy."

"The creek and sneaking into the house were influenced by where I grew up," she explained. "I would always go and play and explore in the creek by Miller Creek Middle School. So that was where that came from. And I like surprises. The initial script had the kid sneaking in through the doggie door because that's what I would sometimes do if I got locked out. But the house I shot it at didn't have a doggie door, so that was out."

Rosenfeld shot the video in Southern California, where she now lives to be closer to the movie industry.

"It was extremely hard to find a creek in Southern California," she complained. "I drove for hours until I found one. My little secret is that I planted the flowers in the video because there weren't any growing. It's a lot prettier in Marin County."

Rosenfeld started making films when she was a student at Terra Linda High. She founded the school's film club and shot the high school's first end-of-the-year video, a tradition that continues. When she graduated, she was awarded the student of the year art scholarship.

"From the time she was 12 years old, she said, 'I have to do work that makes a difference in the world,'" her mother, Randee Rosenfeld, said. "She became a filmmaker so she could make a difference."

Tamara's generation is the first to grow up with the kind of advanced digital technology that enables just about anyone to make a film.

"Filmmaking in general is more accessible now than it ever has been before," she said. "Anyone can make a film, so a lot more content is being created. But, for me, it's important that my films have something to say and have an influence on people."

Since graduating from USC film school, Rosenfeld has worked on the 2008 cop movie "Street Kings" and on Wes Craven's coming "25/8," now titled "My Soul to Take." She's made commercials and music videos, and she and a friend have traveled to Hawaii and Peru shooting a pilot for a TV adventure-reality show she describes as "Blue Crush meets Indiana Jones."

"I'm starting to learn how this industry works." she said. "Eventually I want to direct feature films, but I have a lot to learn about life and about filmmaking before that. For now, I'm happy to direct commercials and travel around the world."