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Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan accept the award for Directing at the 95th Academy Awards in the Dolby

Theatre on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood. The duo also won for Best Picture.

Who are the Daniels? Oscar-winning directors of the year’s best picture Tribune Content Agency Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, who form the directing duo the “Daniels,” are Oscar winners The pair won the best picture, won for best original screenplay and shared the director’s honor during Sunday night’s ceremony. The co-writers, producers and directors of 11-time Oscar nominee “Everything Everywhere All at Once” etched their names in Hollywood history with wins at the 95th Annual Academy Awards. Other big winners included Lead Actor Brendan Fraser (The Whale), Lead Actress Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once), and Supporting Actor Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once.) Born in Birmingham, Scheinert attended Oak Mountain Elemen-

tary and Middle Schools before going to high school in Shades Valley. His parents, Ken and Becky, now live in Guntersville. His dad said Scheinert got into filmmaking through local competitions and musical theater during high school. Humble Sidewalk beginnings Scheinert recently threw a shoutout to his hometown Sidewalk Film Festival at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, where the film swept every category in which it was nominated and won the most awards for a single film in the 38-year history of the show. As they took the stage, the Daniels made sure to thank those who inspired them early in their artistic journeys. After his filmmaking partner Daniel Kwan shouted out out a few names, Scheinert interjected with a mention of his hometown fest: “Everyone at the Sundance Labs,

the folks at the Spirit Awards, the folks at the Sidewalk Film Festival who believed in me.” “But the film bug, it was 20 percent just me doing what my brother did, because he and his friends were all making movies for fun, and they had a public access TV show that they only made like two episodes of, but I loved it,” Scheinert told AL.com last year. “And Sidewalk Film Festival just blew my mind when I made a movie in high school with my best friends and it played for an audience and they liked it. “I was like, ‘This is incredible.’ So we just started trying to make movies and do all the Sidewalk Scrambles and enter all the competitions. I interned at Sidewalk Film Festival for a while, and it became my favorite thing to do my last three years of high school.” See Oscars, Page A8

Israeli couple, inspired by Solano rabbi, opens House of Heart in India Rachel Raskin-Zrihen

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VACAVILLE — “Ahhh a home; ahhh tahini, ahh Hebrew. . . .” That’s the reaction of most people when they first enter Beit Halev (House of Heart) in Varkala, India, its cofounder Maayan Klein Ashush said. Inspired by their time at the Solano County Chabad House and the concept of something called Moishe House,

Klein Ashush, an Israeli military hero, and her family, have married their love of Judaism, travel and community, and opened Beit Halev (House of Heart) in far-off India. And they’ve added an infant daughter to the mix. While Chabad sets up religion-based “centers for Jewish life” all over the world, Moishe House is an international nonprofit comprised of homes

across the globe where young Jewish adults are provided a rent subsidy and program budget to create their ideal Jewish communal space. Heart House is a little bit of both. The Ashushes say they believe God set them on this mission. “We personally look at ourselves as emissaries of Hashem,” Klein Ashush said. “Everybody is in their personal way, and our way is being out there for our fellow Jews and

anybody who needs.” Beit Halev, which is open 24/7, is a home away from home “for Israelis and Jews from all over the world to eat kosher food, experience Shabbat and Jewish holidays together, share experiences and stories and just be ‘a place to be,’ ” the couple says. “The center is funded solely by donations – so every donation counts.” Travelers are welcome See Couple, Page A7

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Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators are racing against the clock to find solutions for failed Silicon Valley Bank while Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said officials are focusing on protecting depositors, as officials seek to avoid a wider bank run. After SVB collapsed into receivership on Friday in the biggest bank failure in more than a decade, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. kicked off an auction process for its assets late Saturday, as it aims to make a portion of clients’ uninsured deposits available as soon as Monday, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The agency and the Federal Reserve have also discussed a fund to backstop deposits if more banks fail as part of wider contingency planning, people said.

Those efforts are aimed at protecting depositors, rather than bailing out investors, Yellen said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “During the financial crisis there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out,” the Treasury secretary said. “And we’re certainly not looking — and the reforms that have been put in place means that we’re not going to do that again. But we are concerned about depositors and we’re focused on trying to meet their needs.” Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, whose California district is home to SVB, said the FDIC is working to find a buyer and urged the U.S. government to guarantee all of the bank’s deposits. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, See Bank, Page A7

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PAJARO — California was bracing for another round of rain beginning Monday as officials tried to assess the damage from severe flooding along the Central Coast and Central Valley, which left scores stranded and left whole blocks under water. Yet another atmospheric river will bring new flood concerns to Northern California beginning Monday and continuing through Tuesday night. The Bay Area is now seeing bands of rain showers and thunderstorms, but “the focus is going to be on the next atmospheric river that arrives Monday evening,” said Patrick Ayd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Flood and high wind watches are in effect for the Bay Area and Central

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