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This image from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office shows the Tesla on a rocky beach below the cliffs, in an area called Devil’s Slide.

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A California man accused of intentionally driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal road, told police he pulled over to the side of the road to check the car’s tire pressure, according to court documents which is available only to the San Francisco courts Chronicle.

His wife told first responders that her husband, 41-year-old Dharmesh Patel, purposely pushed her off the cliff, the Chronicle reported, citing an affidavit through a search warrant.

The outlet did not put the court documents online.

Patel was charged with three counts of attempted murder in January after prosecutors claimed he intentionally diverted his Tesla off a section of the Pacific Coast Highway called Devil’s Slide, crashing the family about 250 feet into a rocky beach. All four family members survived the crash. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

CNN has reached out to Patel’s attorney and his wife, Neha Patel, for comment. CNN is also working to obtain a copy of the court documents.

As rescuers pulled family members from the car, the woman told an emergency services worker “something to the effect that the driver, her husband Dharmesh Patel, did this on purpose,” CHP officer Aaron Sapien wrote in a three-page search warrant affidavit, in the grounds wanted for the confiscation of Patel’s property, reports the Chronicle.

“She then told him that her husband needed a psychological evaluation,” Sapien wrote in the affidavit, according to the Chronicle. “She said suspect Patel chased her away and repeated this several times.”

Another emergency responder also recalled hearing Neha say Patel deliberately drove off the cliff and “was trying to kill everyone,” Sapien wrote in the affidavit, the Chronicle reports.

During an interview with police after the incident, Patel told investigators that he and his family drove about 20 miles to his brother’s home in Montara, Calif., the Chronicle reports, citing the search warrant. He told officers he stopped at three gas stations along the way to inflate the left rear tire, but his dash sensor continued to show low pressure, the search warrant said, the outlet said. While driving the freeway, Patel said the car “started to feel different,” Sapien wrote in the warrant, the outlet says.

“Patel then moved the Tesla onto the ‘unpaved road’ to check tire pressures,” the officer wrote in the search warrant, according to the Chronicle. “Patel said it was only a short distance before they fell off the cliff.”

Patel also told officers he was not on any medication or under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, the search warrant states, the outlet said.

“When asked if he felt depressed, he replied that he wasn’t really depressed, he just felt depressed because of the bad times in the world, the war and the drugs,” Sapien wrote in the search warrant, says the Chronicle. “When asked if he felt suicidal, he replied, ‘You know, not like a plan, not normally,’ and said he was more worried about the world.”

In response to the Chronicle’s report, San Mateo District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe told CNN there was “nothing new for us” while his office drafted the documents supporting the search warrants. “The details in the documents are important evidence of the allegations we have made against Mr. Patel,” he said.

According to court documents, Patel is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on June 12.

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This story has been updated to reflect that Gary Oldman’s documentary “Flying Horse” has not yet been released.

In 2013, veteran documentary filmmaker Marc Shaffer was working on a film in San Francisco when he became captivated by the work of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The film, “American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco” that aired on PBS in 2014, used some of Muybridge’s photography.

It was then when Shaffer conceptualized the idea of ​​creating a film about Muybridge, who is considered to be the father of stop-motion photography.

“[Exposing Muybridge] tells the fantastical story of the pioneering 19th century motion photographer whose breakthrough photography influenced today’s cinema,” Shaffer said.

Shaffer will screen his 2021 film “Exposing Muybridge” at the Boulder International Film Festival this weekend. In Shaffer’s first visit to BIFF, he will be present for three screenings — two in Boulder and one in Longmont.

The film was brought to the attention of Robin Beeck, BIFF’s executive director, after festival staff member Sherri Fike saw “Exposing Muybridge” at a New York festival.

“’Exposing Muybridge’ is one of those films that engrosses you so much in the story that you forget you’re sitting in a movie theater,” Beeck said. “And when you leave the theater, you have to reorient yourself to place and time a little bit. That’s the sign of a great film and is why we selected it to bring to our audiences.”

Muybridge is famously known for capturing motion by taking photos of a running horse in each stage of its gallop, a photo sequence that helped set the tone of modern-day cinema. This sequence has been said to be the first time a photographer captured movement faster than the human eye can see.

“Aspects of his work, once understood, made you feel different about how you can trust the person behind the machine,” Shaffer said.

Among historians and professionals, the film also features Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman, a collector of Muybridge’s work.

“It’s like splitting the atom, it’s like discovering penicillin — it’s a monumental achievement,” Oldman says in the film, when talking about Muybridge’s discoveries.

Oldman has written a screenplay about Muybridge, “Flying Horse,” with the plan of directing and starring in the movie. Shaffer said the film is yet to be released due to funding shortfalls.

“I wanted Gary Oldman in the film,” Shaffer said, “not because I wanted a celebrity plant, but because, as an artist and a public figure, Gary relates to Muybridge on a deeply personal level, in a way others do not. ”

Shaffer began production of the film in 2019, after receiving funding, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“The hardest part in making a film is the funding,” Shaffer said. “Getting approved for funding and trying to figure how much you’ll actually end up needing is the most difficult part.”

After nine years of work and two years of filming through a pandemic, “Exposing Muybridge”’ will now hit BIFF’s big screens. It will be screened in Boulder at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., at 3 pm Saturday and at eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., at 7:30 pm Sunday. It will be screened at Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, at 5:15 pm Saturday.

“[Boulder International Film Festival staff] have been terrific and I’m really looking forward to being there and sharing our film,” Shaffer said.

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This story has been updated to reflect that Gary Oldman’s documentary “Flying Horse” has not yet been released.

In 2013, veteran documentary filmmaker Marc Shaffer was working on a film in San Francisco when he became captivated by the work of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The film, “American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco” that aired on PBS in 2014, used some of Muybridge’s photography.

It was then when Shaffer conceptualized the idea of ​​creating a film about Muybridge, who is considered to be the father of stop-motion photography.

“[Exposing Muybridge] tells the fantastical story of the pioneering 19th century motion photographer whose breakthrough photography influenced today’s cinema,” Shaffer said.

Shaffer will screen his 2021 film “Exposing Muybridge” at the Boulder International Film Festival this weekend. In Shaffer’s first visit to BIFF, he will be present for three screenings — two in Boulder and one in Longmont.

The film was brought to the attention of Robin Beeck, BIFF’s executive director, after festival staff member Sherri Fike saw “Exposing Muybridge” at a New York festival.

“’Exposing Muybridge’ is one of those films that engrosses you so much in the story that you forget you’re sitting in a movie theater,” Beeck said. “And when you leave the theater, you have to reorient yourself to place and time a little bit. That’s the sign of a great film and is why we selected it to bring to our audiences.”

Muybridge is famously known for capturing motion by taking photos of a running horse in each stage of its gallop, a photo sequence that helped set the tone of modern-day cinema. This sequence has been said to be the first time a photographer captured movement faster than the human eye can see.

“Aspects of his work, once understood, made you feel different about how you can trust the person behind the machine,” Shaffer said.

Among historians and professionals, the film also features Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman, a collector of Muybridge’s work.

“It’s like splitting the atom, it’s like discovering penicillin — it’s a monumental achievement,” Oldman says in the film, when talking about Muybridge’s discoveries.

Oldman has written a screenplay about Muybridge, “Flying Horse,” with the plan of directing and starring in the movie. Shaffer said the film is yet to be released due to funding shortfalls.

“I wanted Gary Oldman in the film,” Shaffer said, “not because I wanted a celebrity plant, but because, as an artist and a public figure, Gary relates to Muybridge on a deeply personal level, in a way others do not. ”

Shaffer began production of the film in 2019, after receiving funding, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“The hardest part in making a film is the funding,” Shaffer said. “Getting approved for funding and trying to figure how much you’ll actually end up needing is the most difficult part.”

After nine years of work and two years of filming through a pandemic, “Exposing Muybridge”’ will now hit BIFF’s big screens. It will be screened in Boulder at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., at 3 pm Saturday and at eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., at 7:30 pm Sunday. It will be screened at Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, at 5:15 pm Saturday.

“[Boulder International Film Festival staff] have been terrific and I’m really looking forward to being there and sharing our film,” Shaffer said.

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A Republican senator, concerned that the Federal Reserve is going beyond its Congressional mandate, asks the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank for documents on its growing focus on climate and social issues.

In a letter to the regional Fed bank, Senator Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) Said he was concerned that the bank’s new focus of research could destabilize the central bank’s apolitical profile, which could undermine its independence.

Some of the Fed’s regional banks, including San Francisco, “have become increasingly concerned with sociopolitical issues that reflect the political and normative leanings of unelected Federal Reserve Bank officials,” wrote Toomey, senior Senate banking committee member. “That approach has put the Federal Reserve in the emotionally charged political arena – a place the Federal Reserve has seldom ventured into for good reason.”

Mr Toomey wants the San Francisco Fed to provide him with documents by April 9th, outlining bank planning for upcoming public climate seminars, documents and emails related to shifts in the bank’s research focus, and spending over the past decade in Related to research and community development are listed work. He is also seeking a briefing with Glenn D. Rudebusch, Senior Policy Adviser at the bank.

A San Francisco Fed spokesman said, “We have received the letter from Sen. Toomey and are reviewing it. We look forward to discussing the contents with Sen. Toomey’s office.”

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