PRESS RELEASE - July 13, 2001

Menlo Park , CA - July 13, 2001 - Award-winning filmmakers Dorothy Fadiman and Steve Michelson today announced that Concentric Media and Lobitos Creek Ranch have reached an agreement to develop the original documentary MOMENT BY MOMENT, The Healing Story of Molly Hale

Fadiman, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy award-winning director, said partnering with The Studio at Lobitos Creek adds significantly to Concentric Media's capacity to produce important films. "I see myself as a carpenter, someone who builds small houses while pulling together materials and exchanging skills with a number of sources. For the last 25 years, I assumed I had to reach out in many directions to find the range of elements and services needed to get a film completed: a duplicator for the dubs, a graphic artist for the titles, a different location for the on-line prep, and so on. Steve Michelson has created a situation at The Ranch, which is a filmmaker's dream. He has brought together a constellation of equipment and talent, which I never imagined I could find in one place," said Fadiman.

MOMENT BY MOMENT is the inspiring story of Aikido teacher Molly Hale's physical and psychological recovery from a car accident that left her partially paralyzed, with a prognosis of a lifetime as a quadriplegic. The film follows her story as she is learning to move again in ways that defy medical science.

Michelson, who founded One Pass Film & Video in San Francisco in 1975, has worked with Fadiman on several projects during the past 25 years. He said The Ranch's agreement with Concentric Media is based on creating "outreach" programming that results in "positive change" in people's lives. "Working on projects like MOMENT BY MOMENT with filmmakers like Dorothy Fadiman is the reason we built our new studio in the first place. Dorothy is exactly the type of committed and passionate filmmaker the ranch is designed to support. We are creating a venue for experienced independent documentary filmmakers in The Bay Area, which when completed, will offer what Hollywood does for feature filmmakers in Southern California," said Michelson. Fadiman who, along with Michelson, has her company in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Lobitos Creek is "a hub where all of the pieces of a project can come together. The Studio acts as Executive Producer. This kind of support frees me to expand my own thinking because my technical needs are being met in a creative atmosphere. This means I can focus on doing what I do well: directing independent films, and building the grassroots outreach so that the films will enjoy a long and busy life for years after they are complete," said Fadiman.

About Concentric Media and Dorothy Fadiman

Concentric Media has been creating independent documentaries for twenty-five years, co-producing with PBS stations KTEH and KQED since 1984. Honors for Dorothy Fadiman and Concentric Media's work include an Oscar nomination, an Emmy, two Gold Apples (National Educational Media Festival), a C.I.N.E. Gold Eagle, and a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival. Subjects range from alternative education, to nuclear arms reduction, to the ecological repairing of small appliances, to the legal and social value of the history of abortion, to the universal symbol of Light in religions around the world.

Visit Concentric Media at www.concentric.org to learn about their documentary film projects, audio tapes and related resources. E-mail: info@concentric.org Phone is 650-321-6530. Fax is 650-321-5079. Concentric Media, Box 1414, Menlo Park, CA 94026

About Lobitos Creek Ranch and Steve Michelson

Lobitos Creek Ranch, the home of Steve Michelson Productions, SMP, is a project-based production and post-production studio designed to package, promote and distribute projects for film, video, and DVD. The Studio specializes in bringing national production values to original programming, video publishing, corporate and education communications, and Web-enabled DVD.

Steve Michelson was founder and Executive Producer of One Pass Film and Video (1975-88), San Francisco's largest production and post-production studio. In 1988 he started his own production company Steve Michelson Productions SMP. He served as Co-Executive Producer/Co-producer and Co-Director with KQED and The Breast Cancer Fund on the award winning film Climb Against the Odds.

Michelson is a recipient of the first Gilbert Award for his contribution to Northern California's film community. He is a former board member of Film Arts Foundation, the country's largest regional organization of independent producers and has served four terms as Governor with the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he attended The Annenberg School of Communications and the Wharton School of Business.

Lobitos Creek Ranch is located at 2800 Lobitos Creek Road, Half Moon Bay, California 94019. Visit the Website at www.lobitoscreekranch.com Phone is 650.726.2460. Fax is 650.712.9708. E-mail: steve@lobitoscreekranch.com