SMITH: Montgomery senior’s film against cyberbullying makes big screen

<p>Bully for student filmmaker Hayley Schaff and a corps of students, parents and teachers at Montgomery High.</p><p>Standing up against the tragedy of cyberbullying, they took on a campaign of education and advocacy boosted by a grant from Sonoma County Mental Health Services.</p><p>For her part, Hayley, a senior, produced a short video that's impressed people, Montgomery principal Laurie Fong among them. The film shows a girl walking dejectedly through a school hall as other students stick Post-Its to her.</p><p>Written on them are ugly, unkind names. The message: If it's bad to say in person, it's bad to put online.</p><p>By coincidence, director Lee Hirsch's documentary “Bully” is running now at Santa Rosa's Roxie 14 theater. Folks at Montgomery asked Joe Luis of Santa Rosa Entertainment Group if the Roxie might screen Hayley's short </p><p>prior to showings of “Bully.”</p><p>A look at the student's video persuaded Luis to have it shown before every single film screened at the Roxie for about the next two weeks.</p><p>Principal Fong hopes the films by both Hayley and Hirsch make inroads against online cruelty.</p><p>“Cyberbullying is insidious,” she said, “it's quick, and travels far and wide.”</p><p>ELLA'S PETALUMA: A headline on our Sonoma Stories profile of the family of Ella Bisbee, who was 8½when she died in 2010, called her “a Santa Rosa girl.”</p><p>We made the mistake because Ella's folks and little sister live now in Santa Rosa, where they're continuing a quest to raise money in Ella's memory for an arts-and-crafts room at the evolving Children's Museum of Sonoma County.</p><p>But Ella was every bit a Petaluma girl. She attended McNear Elementary School and rode her bike for miles from one Petaluma park to another — Walnut Park, McNear Park, Wickersham Park — and farther out, Schollenberger Park.</p><p>“We called this the Petaluma Park Crawl,” Nate said. Ella relished stops at Powell's Sweet Shoppe or the ice-cream counter at Fourth and Seacq.</p><p>She would not have missed Saturday's Butter and Egg Days Parade.</p><p>FOR THE FAWNS: Longtime Rincon Valley veterinarian Grant Patrick isn't resting on his laurels after receiving a Red Cross “Real Heroes” award for his voluntary care of injured and distressed wildlife.</p><p>On May 9, he'll serve up an inventive evening of food and theater to benefit the Kenwood-based Wildlife Fawn Rescue (fawnrescue.org).</p><p>It happens at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa. Grant will prepare barbecued chicken for guests who'll then take in the musical comedy “Souvenir.”</p><p>Meanwhile, Grant braces for the arrival of spring fawns that come his way after they're snared in fences, hit by cars or “rescued” by well-</p><p>intentioned folks who don't realize they probably weren't orphaned or abandoned but simply left unattended for a bit by their mothers.</p><p>Grant said deer are starting to give birth, and it won't be long until the mothers hide the fawns and leave them to go find food. “That's when the problems start,” he said.</p><p>MODEL FATHER: Genevieve Gravatt, 14, of Sonoma doesn't love her dad, Frank, any more since he won an Oscar-like Visual Effects Society award for creating the animated movie of a chameleon named Rango. But she sure doesn't love him any less.</p><p>Her dad has worked 20 years for George Lucas at Industrial Light and Magic in Marin. He started in the mailroom and worked his way up to a supervisor in the creation of digital models of creatures and spaceships.</p><p>Frank's “Rango” character, played by Johnny Depp, won the prize for Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature/Motion Picture.</p><p>Daughter Genevieve said she thinks Rango is hilarious. And her father?</p><p>“He can be,” she said. “But he's my dad.”</p><p>Chris Smith is at 521-5211 and chris.smith@pressdemocrat.com.</p>