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Volume XIV
Number 8
May 27/92

CAPILANO COLLEGE'S INTERNAL NEWSLETTER

Faculty Filmmaker Wins Major US Award

Bev Reid (Communications/Media Resources) has recently
been advised that her film, The Street Where Prescilla Lives, has
won the US National Educational Film and Video Festival. It
was chosen from over ,1200 entries for the Golden Apple
Award, which will be presented in Oakland on May 23. Bev’s
film was shot in the Philippines and is a hopeful portrayal of
street children in a crowded Manila slum. The film explores the
day-to-day lives of Prescilla Palero, a feisty 10 year old, anda
cross section of Filipino children. Viewers meet two young
brothers who scavenge garbage to supplement their family’s
meagre income and numerous other children who must work to
survive. The film, which is slated for national television
‘broadcast in the fall, was also a Golden Sheaf Award finalist at
the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival.

Earlier this year another of Bev’s films, Guatemala Journal,
was broadcast as a special on YTV. Bev’s new projects include
two films (My World Calcutta and After the Rain) to be shot on
location in India and Bangladesh. These films will explore the
theme of children and the environment in developing countries.
She also has a six part television series in pre-production which
will celebrate the achievements of Canadian women.

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Children in Manila work and scavenge garbage to survive in the
crowded slums.

Publicity-seeking bear
shot near College

A bear that wandered into the College this month was shot
dead by conservation officers.

“They had to shoot it. It became aggressive,” said Fred
Barns, environmental enforcement unit supervisor.

People rushed to the window of the Public Relations office
the afternoon of May 12 to see the animal, a black bear about the
size of an average person.

After poking its nose at David DeMuynck’s window, the
bear waddled past the rhododendron bush on the east side of A
Building. It took a few paces on the path heading toward the

South Cafeteria and then veered off into the woods.

The Switchboard called the Wildlife Service, who said they
would try to contain the animal.

Two conservation officers and a Malaspina College student
on a work practicum caught up with the bear in a backyard about
half a mile from the College.

“The object would have been to tree it and tranquilize it, but
it came toward them. It couldn’t be scared away,” Barns said. It
lowered its ears and was starting to charge, so the officers were
forced to shoot it.

He said the bear was a female less than a year old, but past
the cub stage. It appeared to be starving. It had probably either
lost its mother or had been banished from the family group
before it learned to find its own food.

CAPILANO COLLEGE