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So, what does a 10-year-old who loves pizza and movies do? He becomes a movie critic. At the Transbay Festival this weekend, we had the pleasure to sit down with a quite remarkable young man - Gal Balaban. This 10-year-old operates single-handedly operates a film critic blog called Film Toppings . Now, film makers, don't get freaked out by the picture above because this film critic makes some very in-depth analysis of films he reviews.

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Greg Viloria aka @SocialGreg interviews Andre "Champagne" Patrick, Executive Director of the just announced Transbay Festival. The Transbay Festival hopes to create Innovation, Entertainment and Community with their event focussing on Media, Interactive and Social. In this interview, Andre explains the vision for this inaugural event. The event already has the closing night with  " Let It Ripple : Mobile Films for Global Change", an ongoing Transmedia Project by The  Moxie Institute , which really began with Tiffany Shlain's film, " Connected : An Autoblogography About Love, Death, & Technology ."  Tiffany Shlain, is an acclaimed director and known as the Founder of the Webby Awards. Here is the link to the press release  announcing the event.