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Gudrun Bjerring Parker b. March 16, 1920

Parker started out as a journalist before being hired to the nascent National Film Board in 1942 as an assistant editor. When she expressed a desire to move into directing she was told to go find her own funding which she did, contacting Health Canada and successfully petitioning them to fund a short film on the importance of vitamins which Parker directed. 

Parker went on to direct, produce and edit over 30 short documentaries for the NFB between 1943 and 1956. Her films mostly specialized on educating children. In 1956 she quit the NFB to focus on raising her children. 

Her 1952 documentary Royal Journey which she co-directed with David Bairstow and Roger Blais, won a BAFTA for Best Documentary. 

In 2005 Parker was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Chicken Bio: Marijuana

Hatch Date:  Week of August 20th, 2017 (not sure exact day)

Hatch-mates: Fre Sh a Voca Do, NaldsMcDo, Cocaine

Other Siblings: Shiro, Sven, Champion, Paladin

Parents: MacBeth and either Violet or Winston (probably Violet)

Name Origin: The marijuana plant.

Breed: Sumatra/Blue Game (maybe) mix.

Best Quality: Anxious all of the time.

Mini Bio: During his first week of life, I was not really able to tend to him much. It was my first week of college, and I was super busy. The first batch of 4 chicks of the same breeding trio did just fine, so this one was expected to as well. The thing is, though, Marijuana had some issues. At first, everything was normal. He and his siblings hatched normally, and were happy babies. After about a day or two, he lost the ability to walk properly. He would just flutter around the box to get around instead of getting up and walking. It was decided that either he had some neurological issues or he possibly ate a poisoned bug since. At the time, the garage the chicks were in had been sprayed for spiders days before they hatched. With this, I just assumed he would die and let him live his little life with his siblings since he was in no visible distress. So, when the day came for his siblings to go outside and stay outside, so did he. He received no special treatment, and was just allowed to be a chicken. Surprisingly with being outside, he was able to get a foot hold in the wire bottom of their cage and began to wobble about. Weeks later, he was walking properly! In one of the photos you can see a group of chicks, and he was the smallest one. During his first two weeks of life, he barely grew, and this has caused him to be much smaller than he should be today. Once he was able to walk properly and no one could tell that he ever had any issues, he was involved in a small dog attack. As I was moving chicks around trying to get everyone situated, I was also dog sitting my aunt’s two dogs. The biggest dog was no issue, he just enjoyed being near me and did his own thing. The little wiener dog, though, chased everything he could. When I was moving the older set of chicks and let them loose while I was cleaning their cage and moving it to fresh grass, the dog chased them around but did not seem like he was going to grab them. This still made me uncomfortable, so I put them up and took the set of chicks Marijuana was in out but moved them to another cage to theirs could be cleaned. I carried two chicks at a time, which was a bad idea, because one squirmed free and both chicks flew out of my hand. I quickly caught one, but the dog went after the other. The dog and I both grabbed onto Marijuana at the same time, and I quickly snatched my baby chick away from him and locked the dog up. Marijuana had no visible damage other than a few feathers missing and was just bit in the back, but somehow that caused one of his legs to go completely limp. I thought ‘this is it, there is no way he can heal from this’, but I decided to try to help him out incase this is another neurological issue and was going to heal over eventually. I put him in a cage by himself and retrieved him later that day once I was done with everything I was doing, then I snuck him inside. I wrapped his foot up to using cloth, a bandage, and a cut toilet paper roll. I also made him a little shoe to keep his toes sticking out to give him some balance if he were to put weight on it. He then stayed in a baby doll crib every night and was put outside in a crate during the day and tried to make sure no one found out I was keeping a chicken in my room every night. For the next two months he was slowly gaining control of his leg again through having it bandaged up as well as forcing him to move around. He became a very lazy bird after me hand feeding him, so I would nudge him around or leave him in a random spot in the yard to make him get up and walk either to his cage or to me. Although he wasn’t happy about that, it did help him in the long run. I never let him stay laying down for long if he wasn’t tired. Once he had a good enough walk to where he did not need me any more, he became an outdoor chicken again and stayed outside near his siblings and others. I tried to re-introduce him several times, but all were unsuccessful. He stayed by himself for 2 months, but not really caring. He could still see everyone, but just could not touch anyone. Earlier this month (May, 2017) I was able to finally introduce him to one group of chickens. I had first thought ‘maybe the baby turkey group would be good’, but he just tried to hump every single turkey. So then, I tried out the mutt bantam group. I had once tried previously to put him with one hen who had injured herself, but she straight up attacked him. This time, though, I moved the hens to him, and they all took a liking to each other (at least, he took a liking to them). He is now staying with them in their rather small cage, but he does not care. Maybe one day I’ll be able to put him in the free range group like I want, but for now he is enjoying life with 6 lovely little ladies. 

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Audrey Wells (April 29, 1960 – October 4, 2018) 

Wells was an American screenwriter and director. She began her film career in 1996 when she wrote and produced the film The Truth About Cats & Dogs starring Janeane Garofalo and Uma Thurman. 

Wells made her directorial debut three years later with Guinevere, starring Sarah Polley. She also wrote and directed Under the Tuscan Sun, a film about a middle aged woman who decides to move to Italy which starred Diane Lane. 

Though Wells directed three films she was predominantly known for her screenplays. She also wrote the screenplays for George of the Jungle, Shall We Dance? and The Hate U Give. 

After a five year battle with cancer Wells died on October 4, 2018, one day before The Hate U Give was theatrically released. She is survived by her husband, Brian Larky, and their daughter Tatiana. 

Sondra Locke b. May 28, 1944 - November 3, 2018

Sondra Locke is an American born actress and director. 

Locke appeared in small theatre productions before she was cast in her debut role in the 1968 adaptation of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter directed by Robert Ellis Miller. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her star making role.

In 1975 Locke was cast in The Outlaw Josey Wales playing Clint Eastwood’s love interest. The two began a personal relationship that lasted until 1989, and for the entirety of their relationship she only appeared in one movie without him. 

Despite their intertwined professional and personal relationship Locke would later reveal that Eastwood was verbally and physically abusive to her throughout their relationship and also pressured her into having an abortion and a tubal litigation.

In 1986 Locke made her directorial debut with Ratboy, about a humanoid rat. While the film was a commercial and critical failure it nevertheless caused Eastwood to become extremely jealous of Locke and her desire to direct. Locke continued to pursue directing projects and by 1989, as she was working on her second film, Impulse, her relationship with Eastwood ended with him locking her out of their mutual home.

Locke sued Eastwood for palimony and as part of the resulting lawsuit was given a production deal with the WB. In 1996 she sued Eastwood for sabotaging her directorial career and in 1999 sued WB for conspiring with Eastwood to make sure her directorial projects were never made. Both lawsuits ended in financial settlements for Locke. 

Locke was able to direct two more films, the 1995 television movie Death in Small Doses which featured a young Evan Rachel Wood in her first role, and the 1997 film Do Me A Favor starring Rosanna Arquette. 

After her settlements she would never make another film as a director.

Amy Heckerling b. May 7, 1954

Amy Heckerling is an American film director. 

She was born and raised in New York City. She was influenced to become a film director by a boy who sat next to her in class who wanted to become a director. Heckerling thought of her fellow student as a dunce and realized that if he could become a director she could easily do the same. She attended both NYU and AFI’s directing programs.  

In 1977 she made her thesis film, Getting It Over With, a short film about a teenage girl determined to lose her virginity before turning 20. Heckerling used the film to try and obtain work as a director. Tom Mount, the then head of Universal, was impressed with the short and wanted to hire Heckerling, but couldn’t do so as Heckerling didn’t have an agent. Eventually, after months of Heckerling being turned down by agents, Mount decided to hire her anyway. She would go on to direct her first feature film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, for Universal in 1982. The film was hugely successful both commercially and critically and launched the careers of actors Sean Penn, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It also launched Heckerling as a successful director and she continued to make commercially successful films through the 80s and early 90s including National Lampoon's European Vacation, Look Who's Talking, and Look Who's Talking Too.

In 1995 Heckerling released what would go on to become her most famous film, Clueless, which she both wrote and directed. The film, which was a modern day retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma, set in Beverly Hills and told through the eyes of rich pampered teens, was a commercial and critical success. Much like Fast Times, it helped launch the career of many of its stars including Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone. The film spawned a successful TV spinoff which Heckerling worked on briefly. Unfortunately the film represented the apex of her career. After this period Heckerling would prioritize raising her daughter as well as taking care of her elderly parents, something that would take time away from her directorial career. 

Heckerling’s next film was the 2000 the university-set rom com Loser. The film was a financial and critical flop. Heckerling did not direct again until I Could Never Be Your Woman. The movie marked the feature film debut of actress Saoirse Ronan and starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd. The film suffered numerous financial setbacks. Filmed in 2005 it was eventually released straight to video in 2007.

Her most recent film was the 2012 comedy horror movie Vamps, a film which reunited her with Clueless star Alicia Silverstone. Once again the film was poorly reviewed and sent directly to VOD. 

Heckerling has continued to work as a director on the small screen directing episodes of the U.S. version of The Office, Gossip Girl, and The Carrie Diaries.

Sofia Coppola b. May 14, 1971

Coppola was born into a cinematic dynasty, the granddaughter of Oscar winning composer Carmine Coppola and the youngest child and only daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola and set director and documentarian Elaine Coppola.

Coppola was brought up on the set of her father’s films and as a child appeared onscreen in many of his films. After her performance in The Godfather: Part III was widely panned she abandoned acting.

In 1994 Coppola launched the short lived TV series Hi Octane with friend Zoe Cassavetes. In 1998 she directed her first solo short film Lick the Star about teen bullying.  

Coppola directed her first feature film, an adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides in 1999. Her next film was supposed to be an adaptation of Antonia Fraser’s biography on Marie Antoinette however Coppola experienced writer’s block and began writing a side project loosely based on her life which turned into Lost in Translation. Coppola won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for her script. She was also nominated for Best Director making her only the third woman nominated in that category. She was also the first American woman nominated for Best Director and the youngest woman director nominated, a record that still holds.  

In 2006 Coppola completed Marie Antoinette which competed for the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her next feature, Somewhere, won the highest award, the Golden Lion, at the Venice Film Festival making her only the 5th woman to win that award. Her 2013 film The Bling Ring appeared in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. In 2015 she reunited with Bill Murray, the star of Lost In Translation, for a Netflix christmas special entitled A Very Murray Christmas.