The Re-Launch of Line 204 Studios in Hollywood

 By Karen Ostlund in Hollywood, CA
Photos by Guest of a Guest Photography

Past Friday, June 19th, Line 204 was hosting a studio re-launch event at its main stage location at 1043 Seward St., Los Angeles, CA 90038 

Sira and Alton Butler at Line 204 Studios Re-Opening Part

 CEO and founder Alton Butler, Line 204 (www.line204.com) was pleased to announce the recent completion of a million+ dollar update to their Hollywood West and East sound stages. Line 204's redesigned complex offers two blackout stages totaling near 14,000 sq. ft. of central Hollywood stage space and 5000 sq. ft. of production office rentals.

Line 204 Studios Ballroom

"After 17 years in business, we can't help but celebrate our new direction. A brand new Hollywood campus for 204's studio and production business, plans to expand our Event business to a 114,000 sq. ft. warehouse topped off with California's new tax incentives, it seems the sky's the limit for us."

said Butler.

Line 204 outdoor  patio at opening

The tone of the redesign begins with the company's bold and simplified new logo to a new era for the brand with a tagline that reads: Specialty Film & Event Rentals smothered in Southern Hospitality. The design is a balance between modern and bold with southern flare.

DJ Whitney Fierce at the opening evening

The exterior design, started with the building's smooth coat and color change meant to tie the property with Line 204's new 24,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art production headquarters are being built across the street at 1034 Seward Street Los Angeles, CA, and slated to open September 2015. Hard-hat tours will be conducted to view the new structure, which will comprise of 24,000 sq ft. and feature 204 Skyline, a  8,000 sq ft. of rooftop and shooting space with unobstructed views of Hollywood.

Attendees at Line 204 Opening presentation of Studios

• A new front entrance and lobby flaunts branding and reclaimed wood details and lighting
• West and East stages went from white to black insul-quilt sound proofing
• Latest wireless technology and significantly increased internet bandwidth to ensure reliable and speedy access.
• Installation of energy efficient "silent" air conditioning, allowing continued air during shooting
• Iconic black and white photography of legendary film stars throughout facility
• Brand new VIP "Corral Room" with lounge area and an 80 SF conference table that seats 14+ - for table reads, large meetings, wrap parties and more
• New production lounge, featuring stunning reclaimed wood wall, modern cocktail rounds and mid-century couches
• New exterior gates and building's smooth coat appearance

Line 204, started off as a humble garage-based production rental business has since turned into one of Hollywood's industry leaders for all lines of production, including stages, production supplies, specialty event & lighting rentals and expendables. Throughout the years they have managed to maintain an upstanding industry-wide reputation by serving up clean, modern equipment, "smothered in genuine southern hospitality."

Jess Poznik, Jonathan Bossle, and Johnny Heinen at Line 204 Studios Re-Opening Party

 

Has Yulin Dog Meat Festival Become Political?

By Karen Ostlund
Photos from American Press (AP)
For Chinese version, click on "Select Language" button above

An annual Yulin dog meat festival in south-west China has begun, and uproar on the part of animal rights activists. Is this "The punishment on earth" featured as oil-paintings in old Churches/Synagogues? The dogs get the same treatment as a "crab-animal with claws" transported in tiny cages without food, water and leg-room.
 Dogs for Yulin come from as far as central and north China's Henan and Shandong, more than 1,000 miles away.
"It would be more human give the dogs a lethal suppository, and then transport their bodies on ice to Yulin". (as China's fish-market)

Dogs for Yulin Dog Meat Festival transported in tiny cages with no food or water

 Here in USA it's law to give transported slaughter animals, food, water and legroom. The animals are also insured.

 Each year, Yulin, Guangxi in China celebrates the summer solstice in June 21-22nd. 
The celebration is followed by 7 to 10 days having a festival of eating dog meat and lychees, washed down by strong liquor.

One day ago,at China's Yulin Dog Meat Festival, Pup sold to be slaughtered.

  

In recent years, more than 10,000 dogs were slaughtered in the festival.
 The animal rights NGO Best Volunteer Centre claimed the city Yulin have more than 100 slaughterhouses, processing between 30 and 100 dogs a day. 

The Yulin Centre for Animal Disease Control and Prevention claimed the city had only eight dog slaughterhouses selling approximately 200 dogs, although this increased to about 2,000 dogs during the Yulin festival. Prior to the 2014 festival, eight dogs (and their two cages) sold for 1,150 yuan ($185) and six puppies for 1,200 yuan.

Latest footage, Yulin dog meat festival, De-haired dogs

The movement against the consumption of cat and dog meat was given added impetus by the formation of the Chinese Companion Animal Protection Network (CCAPN). 
Expanded to more than 40 member societies, CCAPN in 2006 began organizing protests against eating dogs and cat, starting in Guangzhou and following up in more than ten other cities with a positive response from the public. 
Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, officials ordered dog meat to be taken off the menu at its 112 official Olympic restaurants to avoid offending visitors from various nations who might have been concerned by the offering of dog meat.


Eating dog and cat-meat origin from many hundred years ago, Han Dynasty (202 – 220 AD) but Chinese dog's race fur-cell have today surpassed the population race-hair in a lab-test. Many of the Yulin's population appear more Arab than Chinese.
It is proven today's dogs (2015) have reach 1st grad of Caucasian and Spanish hair-fur in a lab-test, unless the dog belongs to the ancient Arab dog-race, but that dog-race has advanced too. House-cats' fur (any color) belong to the Arab blond hair-cell.
It is also proven female dogs who are expecting a litter in a dog-eating country, freeze up, gulp down air, to create lower hair-cell and change of their pups' fur and body-cell, before being born. 
Dogs sense its a threat being born with a higher race-fur cell than the population's hair-cell.
This factor increases the risk of rabies.
In all cases of rabies in fur-animals, the fur test Arab, and has reach cell-change towards Arab-Afro..
That's mean it's a long procedure for a higher fur-race-cell to get rabies - good nutrition and love helps, and without living fear to get killed.

Cooking of dog at Yulin Dog meat Festival

The dog meat trade is a serious threat to human health, and Chinese authorities have every reason to stand by the animal advocates.

China has the world's second highest incidence of rabies in humans. And according to China's ministry for public health, Guangxi province, where Yulin is located, has the largest number of cases in China, while Yulin is one of China's "top ten cities" for cases of human rabies.

Eating dog meat of itself does not cause rabies, but the handling and slaughter of vast numbers of un-vaccinated dogs exposes the traders to a high risk of rabies infection.

Activists say the killing is cruel and have held protests, campaigned online, praying and even saved dogs by buying them, but it's not enough.

Residents and vendors in Yulin say the animals are killed in a humane way,-  but is clubbing down a dog, cut the throat, and then hang upside down -  a humane way?                    Others are burnt and boiled to death.

There is a clear sign Yulin's population was born with body-cell too low to enter USA and Europe.(PETA.org Law)  It usually comes from a tremendous loss during a woman's pregnancy, raising the arms in churches/synagogues pulling out soul with strength, from the growing child's embryo, so it effects the brain of the newborn.
Ancient royals pulled down soul during pregnancy as a prayer, without pulling out, to assure a heir to the throne..

House cats arrive in cages to Yulin Festival

A lot of Chinese living in Los Angeles feel ashamed over what is going on in their country.right now. They say:

"Not all Chinese are dog-meat eaters, but there is a big minority group"

Americans feel that this problem with Yulin dog meat festival should have been stopped with help of military force by shooting from above,when it re-started in 2009. -  "The Yulin Massacre"  would have ended in one day.

Another problem in the Motion Picture Academy in USA: The last 2-3 decades the Caucasian brown-eyed brunette has been replaced by Chinese, unless speak Spanish as first language. This forces the Caucasian brown-eyed brunette to work as blond.

An online campaign to ban the festival has been signed by more than 3.8 million people so far.Last Chance for Animals organization also fight for to stop the slaughter of the rabbit here in USA.
The rabbit is the only slaughter animal in USA, which fur has reach a Spanish hair-cell in lab-test, closest to dog.  www.RabbitCruelty.com

Cows, pigs, horses and more, test topaz light-brown Arab hair-cell in analyze. All birds test light grey Arab-feather cell, underneath the color of the bird. 
Humans themselves created hair-color darker than light brown, over the time in history.

Last Chance for Animals (LCAnimals.org) is an organization that is working for to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival scheduled to start Sunday, June 21st, Torture and death loom for thousands of innocent dogs. Dogs are beaten, boiled, and burned alive in this gruesome celebration of the summer solstice. Where is the heart and soul in these so called humans? There is still hope. We're closer than ever to stopping the slaughter!  LCA's Special Investigation Team is on the ground in China working tirelessly to save these dogs. Sign now to tell Chinese officials to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival!

What's more, over 150 thousand people have already signed LCA's petition demanding an end to the bloodshed. With your help, we will keep the pressure on to not only keep trying to stop it this year, but stop it for future years! With outcry from concerned supporters like you, tremendous progress is already being made. The people of China are beginning to see this horror must end! Dog butchers in Yulin are getting desperate, and as LCA's team reports, they are trying to block people from seeing what goes on at the festival. LCA will not let heartless dog butchers hide the truth. When you spread the word about the bloodshed by signing LCA's petition and sharing LCA action alerts, we grow one step closer to stopping the Yulin Dog Meat Festival for good.  WHAT YOU CAN DO: 1) If you haven't already, sign the petition right now at StopDogMeat.com. Your signature will go straight to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC and demand an end to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.

LA Pride Parade 2015: "Mercy For Animals" March for Re-enforcement of Law of USA Slaughter Houses

By Karen Ostlund in West Hollywood

Mercy of Animals.org marched at LA Pride parade last Sunday, June 14th 2015 in West Hollywood for a cause with the message: "Re-enforcement of Law how farm animals are treated before slaughter, and then consider choose a more vegetarian diet, to create a less demand of slaughter-animals" 

LA Pride 2015, Mercy For Animals in West Hollywood

"Stop butching off body-parts as tail and genitals in cows, pigs and chicken before the soul left the body, which is against the Law in USA, and is under cruelty law. "Stop cut out the eyes of fish,while still alive".

The expression "The Holy Cow" comes from the cow gives everything:
The milk, The meat and The skin.

The price of meat of poultry, beef and pork in USA is supposed to guarantee human and clean conditions of the animals for the buyers in grocery stores as: PEACE, EAT TO GROW BIG in CLEAN CONDITIONS, NO SHOCK TO BRAIN & SPINE in form of losing body-parts and being kicked before slaughter, which can lead to decease to meat. Euthanizing of farm animals should be quick & torture-free in a humanitarian way.

No cruelty-worker gets paid more for cutting in alive bodies than dead, so why this suffering?

It is sickening to see workers butch off genitals of screaming baby-pigs, and cutting off tails and legs of cows before slaughter.

Mercy For Animals documentary clips show slaughter houses choking to death 100's of male baby-chicken in garbage-bags because "male do not produce eggs".- By leaving them outside in big containers, Animals activist organizations can find funds & solution for these male-baby chicken to grow big instead, and become poultry in humanitarian conditions.
Mercy for Animals Video Clips everybody was talking about,can be found at
www.MercyForAnimals.org and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mercyforanimals
OTHER FACTS ABOUT ANIMAL CRUELTY:

Before technology could measure body-cell in World History:
Friendly four-legged dogs ("dog-court") were brought to the court-room in both Europe and US Court Houses - to prove a person's body-cell is below a dog and should be taken out.

During the French Revolution On 10 October 1789, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French physician, stood before the National Assembly and proposed reformation of capital punishment: A prototype of the Guillotine was made by French Antoine Louis and German Schmidt.
One of the reason the Guillotine was invented it was proven "beating an innocent life to death without act of self-defense, consumed too much soul from the heart, and also effected castration (loss of nerves) of the male organ of the beater".
The wives of today's "Seal Hunters,who beat seals to death, featured in the news" can confess their husbands live a castrated life, but prefer to live with the money.

Black politicians in Washington DC need to take action and help ASAP, because other race-groups feel tension when trying to help abused farm animals. The reason:
Black were sold and auction off in the USA, in the late 1700's Century as "Physical Strength Work-Labor" 

Search ResultsThe Mercy For Animals organizations videos show sign of workers are taught wrong, and also seem to have body-cell under requirements to enter USA:The loss of body-cell usually comes from "Arab-woman raising her arms" with strength from the heart in Synagogal/Churches, by pulling out soul from the growing babies embryo, during pregnancy, so it effects the brain of the child.. so low

Non-profit MercyForAnimals.org had their own booth after the parade inside the LAPride Festival which featured graphic 4 minutes videos which proved slaughter animals as cow, pigs and chicken were tortured before being put down, which is against the law in USA:

Last Sunday, June 14th at LAPride Parade
left, myself with activist Michelle Brione for Mercy For Animals
Over 100 thousand people lined Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood Sunday for the LA Pride Parade 2015, June 14th, celebrating the transgender, lesbian, gay and bisexual communities

The parade has been held every year since 1970, except for 1973 when infighting over crude displays the previous two years left the organizers in disarray. The parade was held in Hollywood until 1979, when it moved to West Hollywood.

Last year West Hollywood celebrated 30 Years of independence from Hollywood as a city.(founded 1984)

Present at LA Pride Parade were Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, and "Magic Mike XXL" actors Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer and Adam Rodriguez.The parade began at Crescent Heights Boulevard at 11AM and continued west along Santa Monica Boulevard to Robertson Boulevard.

Nominations for the 2nd Annual PREMIOS PLATINO OF IBEROAMERICAN CINEMA:Banderas gets Lifetime Achievement Award

Nominations for the 2nd Annual
PREMIOS PLATINO OF IBEROAMERICAN CINEMA announced:
“CONDUCTA”,  “LA ISLA MÍNIMA”, “MR KAPLAN”, “PELO MALO” 
and “RELATOS SALVAJES” - 
nominees for Best  Iberoamerican Feature Film.

Actor Antonio Banderas

ANTONIO BANDERAS, 

Recipient of 

Lifetime Achievement 

Award

(Premio de Honor)

Photography by Karen Ostlund at 

Andaz Hotel,

Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, 

May 27th, 2015

(For Spanish version - stroll down to 

Spanish at 

"Select Language" above)

• Relatos salvajes” with ten nominations and 
• “La isla mínima” with nine are the biggest contenders, followed by “Conducta” and
• “Pelo malo”, both with eight nominations.

• Antonio Banderas will receive the
• Lifetime Achievement Award (Premio de 
• Honor) during the awards ceremony, taking place July 18 in Marbella, 
• Spain, his hometown.
• The show will be broadcast in over 50 
• countries worldwide. 
• Here in USA at TNT Network.

• 

  right, actor Eugenio Derbez w
  actress Alessandra Rosaldo

  Actress Alessandra Rosaldo, CNN's Juan Carlos

Arciniegas, together with Actor Eugenio Derbez, 
actress Kate del Castillo, Elvi Cano (Director EGEDA USA) and 
Gonzalo Elvira (FIPCA Mexico) announced the nominees in 9 artistic 
and 4 technical awards in
front of the international press in Los Angeles 
last Wednesday morning at a breakfast 
meeting at Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood.

“Relatos salvajes” (Argentina/ Spain), by 
Damián 
Szifron, with ten nominations will be the biggest contender at the ceremony 
on July 18Th,  at the Second Annual 
Premios Platino of Iberoamerican Cinema at 
Starlite Marbella (Málaga), Spain.

“La isla mínima” (Spain), by Alberto Rodríguez 
has 9 nominations and
“Conducta” (Cuba), by Ernesto Daranas  and 

“Pelo Malo” (Venezuela, Perú, Germany, 
Argentina), by Mariana Rondón have 8 
nominations each.

A record breaking 760 movies qualified for 
this year’s awards. From those, 30 movies 
have been 
finalists, selected from 13 of the 23 countries 
of Iberoamerica.

During the press conference a special Platino Award was bestowed by 
Eugenio

Derbez on behalf of the Executive Committee of Premios Platino to The American Cinematheque for its contribution to Iberoamerican Cinema.

The Award was received by Rick Nicita, Chairman of the American Cinematheque.

In attendance at the press event were also Colombian actor Marlon 
Moreno and Salvadorian actress Carla Vila.

Nick Nicita,left The trophy is designed by Javier Mariscal  A Woman w feminine lines,
with a gesture
offers planet earth w open arms, handed over by actor Eugenio Derbez.

left,Raul Vazquez Gral Director Egeda Latin America, Gonzalo Elvira, FIPCA Mexico,
Elvi Cano Director
Egeda USA, Kate del Castillo, Euginio Derbez, Alessandra Rosaldo and Juan Carlos
Arciniegas

In an effort to celebrate talent and creativity,  TNT has joined EGEDA in a strategic 

alliance to recognize the best of Latin American Film through the second annual Premios 

Platino of

Iberoamerican Cinema.

Mariano Cesar, TNT Vice President and Channel Manager, said: 

“TNT is one of the leading cable 

channels in Latin America because it offers its audiences the best live events from the 

entertainment 

industry, such as the Oscars®, the Golden Globe® and the Grammys®. The addition of 
the Premios Platino of 

Iberoamerican Cinema to our programming will complement this"

left, actress Kate del Castillo w Juan Carlos Arciniegas

.Miguel Angel Benzal, CEO of EGEDA 

and the Premios Platino of 

Iberoamerican 

Cinema  declared:

 “In less than a year these awards, in 

collaboration with FIPCA, have been 

established as the reference point of 

quality and success of our  cinema. 

For the ceremony 

taking place on July 18th at 

Starlite in Marbella,Spain, we are 

expecting that the audiences, in the 

over 50 countries that the show will be 

broadcast in, will 

join in support to recognize the amazing 

talent of actors, producers, directors, 

screenwriters  

 that take part in the creative process of 

film-making". 

"We feel very privileged to partner with 

TNT for the broadcasting and promotion 

of the awards in Latin America, because 

of its leadership position in the region.”

The Premios Platino of Iberoamerican Cinema identifies the best Latin American film 

productions 

(including Spain and Portugal) in nine creative categories and four technical awards

 including Best Latin American Fiction Film, Best Documentary, Best Animation Film, 

Best Latin American 

Opera Prima Fiction, Best Direction, Best Performance by an Actor, Best Performance 

by an Actress, 

Best Script, Best Original Score, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Sound and Best

 Cinematography, 

plus a Lifetime Achievement Award.

This year the ceremony hosts will be Mexican actress & singer Alessandra Rosaldo

and CNN en Español’s Juan Carlos Arciniegas.

Journalist and Mexican TV host Rafa Sarmiento will be in charge of the 

commentaries during the event.

Audiences will be able to enjoy an exclusive 30 minute pre-show from the Red Carpet, 

broadcast on both TNT and CNN en Español. The pre-show will be hosted by Argentinian 

filmmaker, journalist and producer Axel Kuschevatzky  and Dominican host of CNN en

 Español,  Mariela Encarnación 

.

The Premios Platino of Iberoamerican Cinema and the pre-show will air live for Latin 

America on 

Saturday July 18^th at 4.30PM (ARG / CH) / 2.30PM (MEX / COL / PAN) / 3PM (VEN). 

The ceremony and pre-show will have a repeat showing the same day at 

10:00 pm(ARG / MEX / COL / CH / PAN / ECU / VEN). 

9pm (CR / GUA).  8pm (PE). Midnight (CH – exclusive DirecTV). 9.30pm 

(PE – exclusive DirecTV). 

Feed TNT HD: 11pm (ARG / CH). 

9pm (MEX / COL / PE / PAN / ECU). 8pm (CR / GUA). 9.30pm (VEN). 

The ceremony will also be available in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela in live 

streaming and 

on demand through TNT GO (tntgo.tv).

TNT is one of the leading cable channels in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Produced by EGEDA, in collaboration with FIPCA, the Premios Platino of Iberoamerican 

Cinema  was born with the vocation to establish itself as a major international ceremony, 

promoting Latin American cinema as a whole and transcending borders.  

For complete list of nominees & more information please visit:

www.premiosplatino.com