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# Local filmmaker featured on cable for Ballona project
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/local-filmmaker-featured-on-cable-for-ballona-project/
- Published: 2003-01-15T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:19:01.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Marina del Rey, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

A local filmmaker’s documentary profiling the controversial development at the Ballona Wetlands will air next week on cable.

Sheila Laffey talks about the inspiration that underlies her environmental filmmaking and shows clips from “The Last Stand-The Struggle for Ballona Wetlands” hosted by Ed Asner. Laffey also shows footage from a more recent short film that includes footage of Controller Kathleen Connell and actor Ed Host of the CHANGEStv program, Emmanuel Culman, asks Laffey about one of the classes she teaches at Santa Monica College. The course covers social, political and environmental issues in feature films and documentaries.

The show airs Jan. 23 on Adelphia, 77 in Santa Monica, Marina Del Rey, West LA, Beverly Hills, Eagle Rock, parts of the San Fernando Valley.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 15, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/011503.pdf?ref=smdp.com)