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Star Leaf is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Richard Cranor and starring Russell Hodgkinson, Julian Gavilanes, Shelby Truax, Tyler Trerise, Richard Cranor, and Robert Leeshock.
Plot
The film begins with Tim (Tyler Trerise) and James (Julian Gavilanes) as Marine Snipers in the Hindu Kush mountain range of Afghanistan, on a mission to assassinate a high ranking Taliban leader. Their mission is soon compromised when a young child enters the scene, forcing James to take a risky shot that accidentally leads to the child's death.
One year later, Tim and his girlfriend Martha are on a roadtrip with James to La Push, Washington. Tim is hoping the trip to the beach will help James with his PTSD. They stop at a mysterious biker's house named Seth Guardrail Slaughter (Russell Hodgkinson) to get a map that will lead them to a legendary strain of extraterrestrial cannabis growing in the Olympic Mountains.
The trio use the map to navigate their way towards finding the "Garden of Weeden". Eventually, they find the ET marijuana, and Martha proceeds to violate the first rule of the grove - no cell phone usage that could give away the GPS coordinates of the sacred stash.
Around a campfire they begin to smoke the Star Leaf and experience a wide range of hallucinations and visions. James starts to hear voices - Afghan voices as his PTSD begins to manifest violently. Then, a UFO flies overhead. The group cannot tell if these things are real, or just side effects of smoking Star Leaf.
To their shock, a forest ranger named Ranger Dave (Richard Cranor) suddenly enters their campsite as well. Joining them around the campfire, Ranger Dave proceeds to give an awkward and mysterious oral history of the Star Leaf, and what its spiritual effects are on those who smoke it.
Later that night, James is woken by mysterious orbs floating inside his tent. Along with the rest of the group, they experience multiple alien encounters that force them to flee the campsite. Soon it's discovered that Tim has stolen some Star Leaf clippings, a major violation of the rules governing the Star Leaf grove, and the reason behind the growing alien interference.
The group is split up - escaping into the woods James suffers multiple PTSD flashbacks. Ranger Dave and Seth Guardrail Slaughter intervene on his behalf, offering him an opportunity to redeem himself and his friends if he's willing to return Tim's stolen Star Leaf back to the grove, despite the Alien threat. James rises to the occasion, facing his most troubling fears and returns the Star Leaf successfully, allowing him to process fully his PTSD experience in Afghanistan and leading to much needed healing for himself and Tim.
The film ends with the group finally making it to the beach and surfing the ocean waves.
Cast
Russell Hodgkinson as Seth Guardrail Slaughter
Richard Cranor as Ranger Dave
Julian Gavilanes as James Hunter
Shelby Truax as Martha DuPont
Tyler Trerise as Tim Chandranatha
Aleena Ober as the Feral Woman
Svetlana Soutirina as Queen Cheeba
Robert Leeshock as Gas Mask Man
Production
Star Leaf premiered at the American Film Market and was part of the "Midnight Adrenaline" film series sponsored by the Seattle International Film Festival. Star Leaf also won best sci-fi film at the Albuquerque Film Festival. The DVD was released in November 2015 in the United States by the MVD Entertainment Group, and included information on the making of the film. The film is available in German speaking countries courtesy of Lighthouse Films.
Reception
Pat Torfe of Bloody Disgusting described the film as a "Fun adventure, relying on developed characters and their interactions with some good humour thrown in...Cranor has done a great job on this indie ditty, and it’ll be interesting to see what he comes up with in the future."
Simon Weedn of Culture Magazine wrote "Star Leaf portrays a dramatic struggle for survival and self-preservation that is both unexpected and brilliantly executed".
The producers of Star Leaf launched their own cannabis brand in 2016, selling "ET Weed" in several stores in Washington state.
Using marijuana-like smelling hops, a dark Star Leaf IPA beer was also created by Decibel Brewing in Bothell, WA.
References
External links
Official website
Star Leaf at IMDb
StarLeaf was a global video conferencing and collaboration software company that provided cloud-based Instant messaging, meeting and calling for business users. StarLeaf enabled people to meet and collaborate from their desktop and mobile devices, as well as via proprietary StarLeaf and third-party meeting room systems. The company was headquartered near Watford, UK, with offices throughout Europe, the Americas and Australasia.
On 9 June 2022 Starleaf Limited entered into administration and its services and videoconferencing platform ceased operation in October 2022.
History
StarLeaf was established in 2008 by Mark Loney, Mark Richer and William MacDonald. The trio had previously founded Calista, which offered cloud based voice services and which was purchased by Cisco Systems in 1999, and Codian, a UK-based manufacturer of video conferencing infrastructure that was bought by Tandberg for $270m in 2007 and subsequently became part of Cisco Systems in 2010.
StarLeaf initially developed a telepresence and video meeting service that offered a range of personal and group telepresence endpoints connected via a dedicated on-premise PBX.
In 2013, the company launched StarLeaf Cloud, a global network managed by StarLeaf with regional points of presence, to which StarLeaf endpoints could connect from anywhere. StarLeaf ceased selling on-prem systems in favour of StarLeaf Cloud.
In the same year, the introduction of the StarLeaf Breeze software client enabled people to join StarLeaf meetings from laptops (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android), as well as from a range of StarLeaf personal videophones and meeting room systems.
In 2015, StarLeaf introduced a dedicated room system for Skype for Business/Microsoft UC. In 2018 this was rebranded as "Teamline by StarLeaf" and was extended to work with Microsoft Teams.
In 2017 launched their new app for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. In addition to being make calls and join meetings, it added instant messaging functionality. File sharing was added in 2018.
StarLeaf announced a partnership with Poly in 2020 to make StarLeaf services available on Poly conferencing and meeting room systems.
Usage of StarLeaf grew by over 1,000% between January and April 2020 as global lockdowns led to a dramatic increase in home and remote working.
In 2021, StarLeaf transitioned from hardware led sales to being a SaaS based offering.
StarLeaf was VC-backed and had secured eight funding rounds totaling almost £60m, the last £12m of which came in 2019 with investment from Grafton Capital and Highland Capital Partners.
On 9 June 2022 Starleaf Limited entered into administration. Operations ceased in October 2022.
Functionality
The StarLeaf platform provided video calling, meetings, and messaging. Functionality was available through its apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android and through StarLeaf and third party room systems.
= Meetings
=Users had the ability to schedule meetings, either through the StarLeaf portal or using Outlook or Google Calendar plug-ins. Meetings had capacity for up to 300 video participants.
Additional video conferencing and calling features included blurred and virtual backgrounds, background noise cancellation, screen sharing, in-meeting chat and participant management.
Meetings could be recorded via integration with rec.vc.
= Calling
=StarLeaf apps and devices could be used to make audio or video calls, either to other StarLeaf users, H.323 addresses, SIP addresses, or when configured with a SIP trunk, PSTN telephone numbers. It is possible to add additional participants to turn the call into a meeting.
= Instant Messaging
=Users could create one-on-one chats with other users, or create group chats with multiple users.
Each message could contain an attachment, for instance a photo or document. Messages could be replied to or forwarded to other chats.
Chats could be archived, or blocked.
= Room systems
=StarLeaf sold its own range of room systems. The GT Mini consisted of a codec and touch screen with support for dual screens and up to two microphones. It could be used with a wide-angle camera for smaller rooms or a PTZ camera for larger rooms.
The StarLeaf Huddle combined the codec and touch screen into a single device, with a wide angle camera and microphone.
StarLeaf sold Pronto cable accessory for its meeting rooms which when plugged into your laptop's USB A or USB C port, instantly transferred any meetings the user had been invited to onto the room system for one touch join. It also allowed for screen sharing, even on laptops without an HDMI port.
Through its partnership with Poly, StarLeaf had integration with the Poly Studio X30, Studio X50 and G7500.
In addition to being able to join StarLeaf meetings, StarLeaf rooms were also able to join third party meetings such as Zoom or Teams as long as they had H.323 or SIP access enabled.
StarLeaf also supported SIP and H.323 endpoint registration from third party room systems.
= Platform
=Calls via StarLeaf were encrypted and the company had been ISO/IEC 27001 certified since 2019. StarLeaf provided an industry-leading 99.999% uptime guarantee (effectively no more than 5.5 minutes of unplanned downtime per year). Customers had control over where StarLeaf stored their organisation’s data (data sovereignty).
The web-based StarLeaf management portal provided controls and analytics for administrators.
Architecture
StarLeaf hosted 15 points of presence (as of 2019) worldwide. Each customer was assigned to a specific point of presence, in a data jurisdiction of their choosing, that contained the organisation's data and hosted any meetings. Data was replicated a second data center in the same data jurisdiction for fail-over purposes.
References
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