North Miami Beach High School Students Debut Professionally Produced Music Videos at Apple Store in Aventura, Florida; Video Repertoire Includes the Shins, Evanescence, Hip Hop and Local Miami Bands

Business Wire, April 28, 2005

MIAMI -- Seven North Miami Beach Senior High School students will be showcasing professionally produced music videos they directed under a special program funded by the Mochary Foundation for economically disadvantaged youths. The Music videos will be shown at the Apple Store, Aventura, 19575 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura, FL 33180, Tuesday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m.

The aspiring film students from NMB High produced their music videos for genres ranging from electronic music, heavy metal to hip hop artists. The students and some local musicians will be on site to show the music videos using the latest Apple equipment.

"The Mochary Foundation is sponsoring the digital media course at NMB to give seven economically disadvantaged youth the opportunity to learn filmmaking skills, gain entry into `the biz' and, most of all, express themselves!," said Michael Barnes, program director.

The students are using the latest cutting edge technology including:

--Shooting and recording sound on Panasonic AG-DVX 100 camcorders equipped with Audio-Technica AT897 Shotgun microphones

--Editing on Apple Powerbook G4 notebooks equipped with Mac OS X operating system and Final Cut Pro 4.0 non linear editing software

--Lighting with Brik 6,000 Watt 6 lamp digital/film Pro Lighting Kit complete with diffusion and color temperature gels

--Writing scripts on Final Draft 7.0 screenwriting software

--Storing data on LaCie 160gb d2 external firewire drives

--Authoring DVDs on Apple's DVD Studio Pro 3

Participating students include: Alvin Osborne, Junior; Jonathan Saenz, Junior; Paul Laier, Age, Junior; Fernando Galan, Senior; Niccolo Castrataro; Aniva Zaman, Sophomore; and Ryan Gonzalez, Junior.

The Mochary Foundation is headed by Matt Mochary who believes that access to good education unlocks amazing potential in individuals, communities and countries. "The Mochary Foundation seeks to facilitate excellent and practical education in particular localities for a few people, in the hope that its efforts, if viewed as effective, will be replicated by larger foundations and eventually national governments in much larger areas and for far greater populations," said Mr. Mochary.

Please visit http://www.mochary.org To learn more about the foundation and the NMB program.