TEE NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON.

>> Ted: WE SPEAK WITH THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO PILOT A SPACECRAFT AND WE'LL HEAR ABOUT THIS YEAR'S EDITION OF THE 27th ANNUAL GREATEST JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL AND THAT'S NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON.

SECTIONS OF I10 REMAINS CLOSED THROUGH THAT AFTER A HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL LEAK AND IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BETWEEN COLD KOLB AND RITA ROADS AND THAT WAS A ONE MILE PERIMETER AROUND THE ACCIDENT AND THE VEIL SCHOOL CANCELED FOR ALL SCHOOLS AND THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK DIED IN THE ROLLOVER AND NO WORD ON WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH.

RETAIL SALES INCREASED BY 3% LAST MONTH AND ALMOST TWICE AS MUCH AS ECONOMISTS HAD PREDICTED AND FOLLOWS A SLIGHT DECLINE IN DECEMBER.

THE TURNAROUND WAS LIKELY HELPED BY A STRONG LABOR MARKET AND FAVORABLE WEATHER WAS CONSIDERED A FACTOR.

THE SURGE SUGGESTS THAT THE FED COULD RAISE INTEREST RATES AGAIN IN AN EFFORT TO SLOW DEMAND AND EASE INFLATION.

>>> THE 19-YEAR-OLD WHITE MAN WHO KILLED IN A MASS SHOOTING WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PATROL AND AT ONE POINT, FAMILY MEMBERS SPOKE, A MAN RUSHED AT THE GUNMAN AND HE WAS QUICKLY BLOCKED BY SECURITY AND A CONVICTED MURDERER WAS TAKEN OUT OF A ROOM.

THE JUDGE TOLL THE TOLD THE GUNMAN, YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY EVER AGAIN AND ADDED -- >> THERE IS NO PLACE FOR YOU OR YOUR IGNORANT, HATEFUL AND EVIL IDEA OLES IN THEOLOGIES AND THERE CAN BE NO MERCY FOR YOU AND NO UNDERSTANDING AND NO SECOND CHANCES AND THE DAMAGE YOU HAVE CAUSED IS TOO GREAT AND THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE HURT ARE TOO VALUABLE TO THIS COMMUNITY.

YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AS A FREE MAN EVER AGAIN.

>> THE SHOOTER STILL FACES FEDERAL CHARGES IN THE MURDER WHICH CARRY THE POTENTIAL FOR THE DEATH PENALTY.

>>> IT'S WEDNESDAY AND THAT MEANS IT'S TIME FOR OUR WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE UPDATE IN WHICH WE HEAR ON THE LATEST ACTIVITY AT THE STATE CAPITOL AND THIS WEEK IT'S THE REPUBLICAN'S TURN AND JOINING US IS OUR T.J. SHOPE AND LEO BIASIUCCI AND GOOD TO HAVE YOU BOTH HERE AGAIN AND WE'LL START WITH THE HEARINGS ON THE DR. TERESA CULLEN AND THEY SAID NO AND WHY?

>> IF YOU LOOK AT THE THREE HOURS OF TAPE AND IN TESTIMONY THAT OCCURRED IN THE DIRECTOR OF NOMINATION'S COMMITTEE LAST WEEK, AND THERE WAS KIND OF A VIBE OUT THERE ALREADY THAT IT WAS PROBABLY A NOMINATION ON THIN ICE TO BEGIN WITH AND BASED A LOT IN RESPONSE TO MANY FOLKS FOCUSING ON COVID AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND I'VE TENDED TO ON SOME OF THE THINGS AFTER EVEN RESTRICTIONS WERE LIFTED BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR AND DARE I SAY, NAUGHTY LIST OF RETAIL SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS WHERE PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING FEDERAL MASS GUIDELINES OR COVID GUIDELINES AND THEY WERE POSTED ON THE PIMA COUNTY WEBSITE AND A TYPE OF SHAMING THAT OCCURRED TO RETAIL AND RESTAURANTS.

THERE WERE ANY NUMBER OF THINGS THAT RETAILERS BROUGHT TO THE TABLE.

IT WAS CLEAR TO ME THAT THERE WOULD NOT BE 16 VOTES FOR CONFIRMATION.

THE THREE-HOUR COMMITTEE HEARING THAT OCCURRED MADE THAT MORE CLEAR.

>> Ted: LET'S TALK ABOUT HER, THE VA, ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL AND INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES AND IT SOUNDED LIKE, WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THOSE QUALIFICATIONS?

>> I THINK THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, AS I MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, HER MOST RECENT EXPERIENCE IN PIMA COUNTY, IT CLOUDED MUCH OF THE REACTION OR MUCH OF THE APPRECIATION FOR HER PREVIOUS ENDEAVORS IN THE OTHER CAREERS AND THE STATE IS OBVIOUSLY JUST MORE THAN PIMA COUNTY AND INTEREST IN LEGISLATORS AND MOHAVE COUNTY AND OTHER PLACES THAT WERE NOT GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT WAS DONE DURING THAT EXPERIENCE OF COVID WITH A FOND EYE AND FRANKLY, SOME OF THE RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS FURTHERED THAT IDEA THAT THERE WAS JUST -- IT WAS JUST NOT THE RIGHT SELECTION THERE.

I WOULD SAY, HONESTLY, IF I WATCHED THE CLIP, THERE WAS A PORTION OF IT DURING THAT TESTIMONY YOU WONDERED, WHERE WAS THE GOVERNOR ON THE PREPARATION OF THE NOMINEE FOR WHAT WE WERE THERE TO DO THAT DAY?

I WAS, FRANKLY, ASTONISHED AT THE LACK OF PREPAREDNESS THAT SHE SHOWED.

>> Ted: YOU SAID SHE LIED IN HER TESTIMONY AND THE RELEASE SAID SHE WAS A MEDICAL TYRANT AND IS THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE NECESSARY?

>> I THINK THE LIES THAT WERE BROUGHT UP DURING THE COMMITTEE HEARING, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE CHAIR, Mr. HOFFMAN, WOULD ASK QUESTIONS THAT SHE SAID CERTAIN THINGS AND I WAS TAUGHT IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER OR DON'T KNOW, YOU SAID I DON'T RECALL OR I'LL GET BACK TO YOU.

YOU DON'T SAY NO AND SOMEBODY HOLDS UP A PIECE OF PAPER WHERE IT'S CLEAR AS DAY THAT THOSE STATEMENTS WERE MADE AND THOSE DECISIONS WERE MET.

>> Ted: THE SENATE'S DEAL BUT FROM A HOUSE PERSPECTIVE, IT SOUNDS LIKE COVID AND THERE ARE FOLKS WHO KNOW PEOPLE WHO DIED AND PEOPLE WHO HAD FAMILY MEMBERS WHO DIED AND FOLKS WHO THINK THE STATE DIDN'T DO ENOUGH OR AT OR NEAR THE TOP AS FAR AS FATALITIES PERCENTAGE WISE.

I MEAN, DID YOU THINK THE STATE HANDLED COVID WRONG?

>> YEAH.

THIS IS A GREAT QUESTION AND WHAT SENATOR SHOPE WAS TALKING ABOUT AND HOW SHE HANDLED PIMA COUNTY.

IF YOU LOOK AT MOHAVE COUNTY, WE OPENED UP A LOT FASTER AND A TON OF PEOPLE COMING TO LAKE HAVASU, WHICH IS MY HOMETOWN.

COVID AT THE PEAK, THOUSANDS COMING FROM CALIFORNIA.

WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SENATE WAS, YOU HAD AN OVERREACH THEY THOUGHT SHE HAD IN CHARGE OF PIMA COUNTY AND SHE WENT OVER AND BEYOND WHICH WE DIDN'T IN MOHAVE COUNTY.

>> Ted: THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT COUNTIES.

>> WE HAD THOUSANDS COMING.

OUR WHICH WAS BOOMING AND WE HAD RECORD PROFITS AND EVERYBODY WAS CALIFORNIA WAS COMING TO MOHAVE.

THERE'S A RECORD BETWEEN THE NUMBERS AND PEOPLE WERE NOT OK WITH HOW SHE HANDLED PIMA COUNTY.

>> Ted: I WANT TO GET TO THE BUDGET IN A SECOND AND WILL THEY HAVE TO TOW SOME LINE REGARDING COVID.

IF I'M THE NEXT APPLICANT AND I THINK WE HANDLED THE COVID SITUATION, WE WEREN'T STRONG ENOUGH IN TERMS OF REGULATIONS, DO THEY HAVE TO CHANCE AT ALL?

>> OBVIOUSLY WE'LL PROCESS THAT AGAIN AND WE'LL FLUSH IT OUT AND IF SOMEONE IS HONEST AND LOOK, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WE WERE TRYING OUR BEST AT THE TIME AS SOON AS WE BEGAN TO SEE WHAT THE SCIENCE WAS BEGINNING TO DICTATE.

WE SHIFTED GEARS AND MOVED IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

MUCH LIKE THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT DID, AND PI MA COUNTY DID NOT.

YOU HAVE JUDGED ON THE MONTH RECENT THING YOU'VE DONE.

IN THIS INSTANCE, THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED AND WE DIDN'T FEEL THIS WAS THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE FOR THE STATE OF ARIZONA.

TED >> Ted: THE GOVERNOR SAID IT WAS A FOOLISH DECISION.

>> I THINK THE GOVERNOR DID NOT PREPARE HER FOR THE TYPE OF QUESTIONS THAT WOULD BE ASKED.

I WOULD SAY AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE NOMINATIONS, WE WILL HAVE A MICROSCOPE ON EVERY NOMINATION.

ONE THING WE LEARNED IN COVID, EVERY EXECUTIVE AGENCY IS VERY POWERFUL AND THEY ARE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO AHEAD AND DICTATE THINGS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE.

>> Ted: THIS BUDGET, THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET PASSES AND, AGAIN, HOW MUCH INPUT FROM DEMOCRATS AND HOW MUCH INPUT FROM THE REPUBLICAN'S?

>> IT WAS FROM LAST YEAR AND THERE'S A QUOTE FROM GOVERNOR HOBBS LAST YEAR, SOMETIMES GOOD THINGS COME FROM THOSE WHO WAIT AND IT RESULTED IN A BIPARTISAN BUDGET.

SO YOU HAVE A GOVERNOR WHO SUPPORTED THE BUDGET LAST YEAR AND DEMOCRATS WHO SIGNED ONTO THIS BUDGET LAST YEAR.

THIS WAS THE RIGHT CALL, FOR US TO SAY, LOOK, WE'LL HAVE DISAGREEMENTS WITH HOW WE'LL SPEND CERTAIN MONIES LATER ON AND LET'S PUT A BUDGET UP TO KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN AND KEEPS THE SHERIFF'S AND DPS OPEN AND THEN WE CAN FIGHT FOR THE REST AND THAT'S HOW GOVERNMENTS SHOULD WORK IN ALL HONEST HONESTY.

SHE SHOULD ACCEPT THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A BIPARTISAN BUDGET THEY SUPPORTED LAST YEAR.

>> Ted: THAT'S LAST YEAR AND THIS IS THIS YEAR.

THIS IS ISN'T THE SAME BUDGET AND THERE ARE CHANGES IN THIS BUDGET FROM LAST BUDGET.

SO THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND I THINK HER QUOTE, IT'S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD AND IS THIS MOVING THE STATE FORWARD.

BUT IS IT MOVING THE STATE FORWARD?

>> THAT'S WHAT WILL DETERMINE WHAT'S SPENT AND THERE'S THAT POT OF MONEY, HOW MUCH DO THEY GET AND WHAT WE GET AND WE HAVE TO KEEP THE STATE OPEN.

IF WE SHUT DOWN IN JULY, WHICH COULD HAPPEN, I ON HER NOW BECAUSE WE DID OUR JOB AT THE LEGISLATURE AND ONE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY IS TO PASS A BUDGET.

>> Ted: IS IT ON THE GOVERNOR IF THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE BUDGET DON'T WORK BETWEEN YOU AND THE GOVERNOR?

>> I THINK THAT IS -- LOOK, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND WE PASSED OUR BUDGET AND WE JUST RAN IT ACROSS THE SENATE DESK AND SHE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW IT WHICH IS GREAT SIX MONTHS AGO AND, YOU KNOW, SHE'LL MAKE THAT DECISION.

THE REALITY IS, THIS BUDGET DOES MOVE THE STATE FORWARD.

THE FORMULA INCREASES ON K-12 AND EVERYTHING THAT'S FORMULA DRIVEN IN THE BASELINE HAD AN INCREASE JUST AS IT WOULD ANY OTHER YEAR.

THE ONE AND A HALF, 1 POUND 1.$8 BILLION, THAT KEEPS US HERE FOR A LONG TIME AND THAT WILL NEGOTIATE ON WHAT THAT ITEM IS.

>> Ted: WHAT HAPPENED SIX MONTHS AGO AND ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

SHOULD YOU NOT HAVE HAD HEARINGS AND PUBLIC INPUT REGARDING THIS BUDGET?

>> I WOULD ARGUE WE DID AND EVERYTHING WE HAD, APPROPRIATIONS AND BOTH CHAMBERS AND WE HAD INPUT AND I GET HUNDREDS OF EMAILS ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING.

THE REALITY IS THIS, ANYTHING THAT THE GOVERNOR WOULD LIKE TO HAVE HAD CHANGED SINCE IT HAD FORMULA INCREASES ACROSS THE BOARD, WHERE THEY WERE CALLED FOR ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION, ANY CHANGE AT THAT POINT KNOWING WE WOULD PASS A BASELINE WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A DECREASE.

BECAUSE OF THE SURPASS, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A VOICE IN SPENDING THAT.

I HAVE BIG PRIORITIES MYSELF AND A FREEWAY BETWEEN CASA GRANDeAND PHOENIX AND WE HAVE THAT TO FIND IT OUT.

>> Ted: GOOD TO HAVE YOU BOTH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Ted: UP NEXT, WE'LL VISIT WITH THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO PILOT A SPACECRAFT.

ASU HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH A PHOTOGRAPH FROM SPACE.

THE UNIVERSITY WILL ALSO HONOR AND RECOGNIZE OUR NEXT GUESS, AN ASU GRADUATE AND FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO PILOT A SPACE MISSION AND WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON AND GOOD TO YOU HAVE.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Ted: THIS IS FANTASTIC!

I DON'T GET TO TALK TO ASTRONAUTS ALL THAT MUCH.

>> NOT A LOT OF US RUNNING AROUND, BUT THERE IS ONE HERE IN PHOENIX, ME.

>> Ted: I WANT TO GET TO THE MOSAIC AND CELEBRATIONS IN THE HONOR AND RECOGNITION AND HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN THIS SCIENCE -- I WANT TO KNOW WHAT MAKES AN ASTRONAUT.

>> MY DAD WAS A SELF-TAUGHT SCIENTIST AND MATHEMATICIAN AND BORN ON GUAM DURING APOLLO 11 AND WHAT GOT YOU INTO BEING AN ASTRONAUT?

>> I GREW UP WITH NASA MEMORABILIA AND HE GOT NEIL ARMSTRONG'S AUTOGRAPH THANKING HIM FOR THE HELP.

>> Ted: YOU WOUND UP WITH SPACeX.

>> I APPLIED AS AN ASTRONAUT IN 2009 AND GOT DOWN TO THE YES, NO, PHONE CALL AND IT WAS A HEARTBREAKING TO AND THAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES AND YOU HAVE TO PICK YOURSELF UP AND CONTINUE AND THEN INSPIRATION FOUR CAME ALONG AND THAT WAS WITH SPACeX.

>> Ted: WHAT'S INSPIRATION FOUR?

>> A MISSION TO ORBIT AND NO, LIKE, FEDERAL OR CAREER ASTRONAUTS LIKE NASA AND SO, IT WAS FOUR CIVILIANS THAT CAME TOGETHER.

>> Ted: I HAVE TO ASK, WHAT IS IT LIKE BEING IN SPACE?

>> BEING IN SPACE IS AWESOME.

THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN FLOATING AND ALSO SEEING THE EARTH AND HAVING EARTH LIGHT.

>> Ted: I MEAN, IT IS A SPIRITUAL -- I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY IT'S A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

>> IT IS.

THINK ABOUT MOONLIGHT AND HOW GOOD WHEN YOU WALK OUTSIDE AND YOU'RE BATHED IN MOONLIGHT.

WHEN IT'S FOUR TIMES BETTER AND SPECTACULAR.

>> Ted: IS IT WHAT YOU EXPECTED?

>> IT IS BETTER, TO BE FLOATING IN SPACE AND TO BE ABLE TO EAT AND LIVE AND, AGAIN, LOOK AT OUR PLANET.

IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE.

>> Ted: TALK TOO US ABOUT THIS GIANT ART MOSAIC AT THE SUN DEVIL STADIUM AND WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT?

>> I GRADUATED FROM ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AND GOT MY MASTERS AND PH.D.

THERE AND ED DWIGHT GOT HIS MASTERS IN 1957 AND TWO ALUMNI BEING CELEBRATED AND WE'RE BOTH ARTISTS AND PUTTING 30 BY 50 MOSAICS AND DID A SATELLITE PHOTO OF THE STADIUM.

>> Ted: THAT'S REALLY COOL.

AND YOU DO ARTWORK, DON'T YOU?

>> I WON MY SEAT TO SPACE AS AN ARTIST AND A POET.

>> Ted: DID IT CHANGE YOUR OUTLOOK?

>> HAVING THAT EXPERIENCE CHANGED THE WAY THAT I LOOK AT THE PLANET AND THE COLORS AND THE WHITES, THE GRAYS AND THE BLUES AND IT'S JUST SO VIBRANT.

>> Ted: AND SOMETIMES WITH ART, THOUGH, WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHAT YOU CAN GET DOWN.

ARE YOU ABLE TO TRANSLATE IT?

THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WORK ON.

I'M A FUTURE ARTIST AND POET AND LIKE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BE LIKE PARTICULARLY FOR WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE FUTURE AND HOW THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY A ROLE IN SPACE AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT.

HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS TO YOU?

>> WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, THERE WERE NO ROLE MODS.

MODELS.

THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO BE A MODEL, IT WAS IN MY 20s AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO THINK, YEAH, IF SHE DID IT, I CAN DO IT.

>> Ted: OR YEAH, SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE ME.

>> OH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

>> Ted: HAVE YOU GOTTEN THAT RESPONSE?

>> I DO AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS IS HALLOWEEN BECAUSE PEOPLE SEND ME PHOTOS OF ME FOR HALLOWEEN.

>> Ted: WITHOUT!

THAT'S GOT TO BE COOL!

>> IT'S REALLY NICE.

>> Ted: YOUR PARENTS, AS TALKED ABOUT BEING RAISED, AS YOU WERE RAISED AND BACKGROUND, SPACE BACKGROUND AND ALL OF THAT, AND HOW IMPORTANT WAS THAT BACKGROUND TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW IN.

>> ?

>> LIFE-LONG LEARNING AND SOMETHING MY PARENTS INSTILLED IN MY AND NEITHER HAD COLLEGE DEGREES AND VERY, YOU KNOW, PARTICULAR ABOUT US BEING LIFE-LONG LEARNERS.

>> Ted: IS SPACE TRAVEL IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE OR IS THAT IT?

>> YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS OPEN TO ANYBODY WHO WANTS ME TO GO UP WITH THEM AND PILOT A SPACECRAFT AGAIN AND RIGHT NOW FOCUSING ON THE NEXT GENERATION AND SHARING MY ART AND POETRY?

>> Ted: WHERE CAN WE FIND THAT?

>> GO TO DR.PROCTER, YOU CAN GOOGLE ME AND MY ART IS THIS WEEKEND AND IT'S A REALLY FAMILY EVENT AND IT'S OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.

THERE'S ASTRONAUTS, THE BLUE CAPSULE AND IT'S SPECTACULAR.

>> Ted: THIS IS WHERE?

>> SUN DEVIL STADIUM AT THE ASU, 365 COMMUNITY UNION AND A SPACE TO INSPIRE WEEKEND.

>> Ted: LOOKING AT THE BIG MOSAIC WEEKEND.

CONTINUED SUB CESS.

>> THANKSUCCESS.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Ted: THE GREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL IS THE LONGEST RUNNING FILM FESTIVAL IN THE VALLEY AND THIS MARKS A GRADUAL RETURN TO THEATERS.

JOINING US IS THE FESTIVAL'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ROBERT NAGLE AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

>> I'M THE ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM OUR TWO EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.

>> Ted: FOR THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES, YOU'RE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

>> I'M ALL SET.

>> Ted: WHAT IS THE FESTIVAL'S MISSION?

>> TO BRING JEWISH THEMED OR JEWISH PROFILES TO THE GENERAL COMMUNITY AND NOT JUST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, TO EXPLORE THINGS MANY OF US, EVEN MYSELF, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD DON'T REALIZE HAS HAPPENED AND DON'T ASSOCIATE WITH JEWISH LEADERS.

IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE FOCUSED ON FOR MANY YEARS.

>> Ted: HISTORY, TRADITION, HERITAGE AND THESE SORT OF THINGS?

>> YES.

THROUGH COMEDIES, DRAMAS, THRILLERS AND WE HAVE OUR FIRST ANIMATED FEATURE THIS YEAR CALLED "CHARLOTTE" FEATURING THE VOICE OF A JEWISH WOMAN ESCAPING FROM GERMANY TO FRANCE WHERE SHE TRIES TO PAINT HER LIFE STORY BEFORE SOMETHING TERRIBLE SHOULD CUT HER OWN LIFE SHORT AND IT'S A WONDERFUL FILM.

>> Ted: VIEWERS ARE BACK IN-PERSON AFTER COVID BUT ONLY FOR A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME, TRUE?

>> FOR OUR FESTIVAL, THEY'RE REINTRODUCING LIFE SHOWS, BRINGING THE FESTIVAL BACK TO AN AUDIENCE, A CROWD INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER AND SHARING THE EXPERIENCE AND WE'RE INTRODUCING THAT SLOWLY.

WE'RE HAVING TWO DAYS OF FEATURES AND THIS COMING SUNDAY, THE 19th AND SHOWING TWO FILMS AND ONE FILM DOWN AT TEMPE MARKETPLACE AND ON MONDAY, THERE'S AN EVENING FEATURE, AS WELL.

>> Ted: THE FILMS THEMSELVES, HOW ARE THEY SELECTED AND EVALUATED?

>> WELL, THAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.

I WAS DOING MATH WHILE I WAS WAITING TO JOIN YOU AND BETWEEN OUR EXECUTIVE SCREENING COMMITTEE AND OUR OTHER SCREENING COMMITTEE, I WOULD ESTIMATE THAT IT'S A COLLECTIVE THREE HOUSE HOURS OF VIEWING IN THE 25 FILMS THAT WE'RE SHOWING THIS YEAR.

>> Ted: IS THAT A LIMIT THAT YOU PUT ON?

>> IT'S A MATTER OF WHAT WE REALLY FEEL IS THE QUALITY OF FILMS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

I THINK WE'VE HAD AS MANY AS 30 FILMS AND AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL CHOICE.

THIS YEAR WE FELT THE RIGHT FILMS CAME UP TO THE NUMBER WE HAD AND THAT'S THE RIGHT DECISION FOR US.

THEY'RE NOT DRIVEN BY TRYING TO FILL THIS BASED ON A NUMBER BECAUSE WE RISK LOSING THE HIGH QUALITY WE WANT TO PRESENT.

>> Ted: ONE OF THE FILMMAKERS AND TALK TO US ABOUT THE FILM AND FILMMAKER.

>> THE FIRST FILM BACK IN THEATRES AND AS FAR AS JUDD HIRSCH AND THEIR SON FINALLY GET HIS FATHER TO GET AN iPHONE AND BEFRIENDED BY A WOMAN WHO TEACHES HIM THE WONDERS OF THE iPHONE AND NOT ONLY COMEDIC AND REMINDS US OF THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY AND THIS IS A BIG ITEM THAT DREW OUR ATTENTION.

AND THE FILMMAKER IS BASING THE STORY ON THEIR LIVES.

>> Ted: TALK TO ABOUT FAREWELL Mr. HOFFMAN.

>> THE OWNER OF A JEWELRY STORE WHO GIVES THE STORE TO HIS ASSISTANT AND TRIES TO ESCAPE FROM FRANCE AND UNSUCCESSFUL AND COMES BACK AND LIVES IN THE BASEMENT THE JEWELRY STORE BECOMING A FAVORITE STORE FOR NAZI OFFICERS.

WHAT THE FILM EXAMINES IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ORDINARY PERSON GETS A LITTLE UNEXPECTED POWER.

I DON'T WANT TO SAY MORE.

IT'S A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER.

>> Ted: WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND GIVES US DATES, TIMES.

>> THE VIRTUAL FESTIVAL STARTS ON THE 23rd AND RUNS UNTIL MARCH 5th OF THIS YEAR AND YOU CAN WATCH ANY OF THE VIRTUAL FILMS AT ANY TIME DURING THAT TEN-DAY PERIOD AND THIS COMING WEEKEND AT SHEA 14 AT 3:00 AND 7:00.

>> Ted: WE HAVE TO STOP YOU RIGHT THERE AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

>> GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> Ted: THAT'S IT FOR NOW.

I'M TED SIMONS THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

THANK YOUYOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.