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Alumni Accomplishments 03/24/2013

Kate Mark's (MFA '12, Film Directing Program) film Pearl Was Here is part of a select group of films programmed in KQED TV (Bay Area) inaugural program of FILM SCHOOL SHORTS. The program includes narrative shorts from top American film schools, usually 2 films broadcast per 30-minute episode. For more information go the the press release link: New Series Film School Shorts Brings Award-Winning Films to Public Television:http://blogs.kqed.org/pressroom/2013/02/26/film-school-shorts-public-television-series/

Pearl Was Here Preview Vimeo from Kate Marks on Vimeo.

Disney Channel has ordered an animated series about a little older princess, voiced by The Middle‘s Eden Sher. The channel has given the green light to Star And The Forces Of Evil (working title), created by Daron Nefcy (BFA '09, Character Animation). The series is an animated comedy adventure about Star Butterfly (Sher), a fun-loving magical teen princess from another dimension who — after a few bold skirmishes with other-worldly monsters — is sent by her Royal Parents to live with the Diaz family on Earth.

John Warren (MFA '12, Program in Film and Video) will screen his film Poppy Fields Forever at the Images Festival in Toronto, in April.

Poppy Fields Forever from john warren on Vimeo.

Two features produced by CalArtians, Cheap Thrills and Milo, premiered in the 2013 South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), in Midnighters and Narrative Spotlight programs, respectively. Cheap Thrills was produced by Gabriel Cowan (BFA '00 School of Music, MFA '08 Program of Film and Video) and John Suits (MFA '08 Program of Film and Video), along with Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures. Milo, another New Artists Alliance project, was produced by Gabriel Cowan (BFA '00 School of Music, MFA '08 Program of Film and Video) and John Suits (MFA '08 Program of Film and Video) along with Adele Romanski.

CHEAP THRILLS festival teaser from Snowfort Pictures on Vimeo.

The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival, which takes place in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March 2013, will include many CalArts alumni and faculty:

Akosua Adoma Owusu (MFA '08, Program in Film and Video / Art (Interschool)), Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful.
Alexandra Cuesta (MFA '08, Program in Film and Video), Despedida.
Charlotte Pryce (Faculty, Program Film and Video), Looking Glass Insects.
James Benning (Faculty, Program Film and Video), The United State of America.
Kate Dollenmayer (MFA '05, Program in Film and Video), Monad by Chris Cohen.
Laida Lertxundi (MFA '07, Program in Film and Video),
The Room Called Heaven, Farce Sensationelle!, A Lax Riddle Unit, Cry
When it Happens (Llora Cuando Te Pase), My Tears are Dry, Footnotes to a
House of Love.
Madison Brookshire (MFA '07, Program in Film and Video), Passage.
Mariah Garnett (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video), Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin.
Maureen Selwood (Faculty, Experimental Animation), A Modern Convenience.
Maya Erdelyi (MFA '12, Experimental Animation), Pareidolia.
Meejin Hong (MFA '12, Experimental Animation), Sugarcoat.
Naoko Tasaka (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video), Flower.
Rhys Ernst (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video) and Zachary Drucker (MFA '07, School of Art), She Gone Rogue.
Suzan Pitt (Faculty, Experimental Animation), Asparagus,
The Damnation of Faust, Crocus, Whitney Commercial, Bowl, Theatre,
Garden, Marble Game, Pinball, Joy Street, El Doctor, Jefferson Circus
Songs.
Song E Kim (MFA '07, Experimental Animation), Bite of Tail.
Joanna Priestley (MFA '85, Experimental Animation), Dear Pluto.
Bill Brown (MFA '97, Program in Film and Video), Memorial Land.
Peter Bo Rappmund’s (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video), Tectonics.

Posted by lpiazza on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 6:00pm

Faculty Accomplishments 03/24/2013

Steve Anker (Faculty, Dean of the School of Film/Video) was invited by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul to join a team of seven other curators from different parts of the world that comprised the film program at the 11th Sharjah International Art Biennial. Apichatpong asked the curators to put together evenings of films dealing with the theme of ghosts, possession, and how states of sleep or the unconscious influence our lives. Steve's program, "Images From The Shadow Worlds," included thirteen films, among them work by CalArts faculty members Adele Horne (Faculty, Program in Film and Video), Maureen Selwood (Faculty, Experimental Animation) and Janie Geiser (Faculty, School of Theater). The film programs were presented in a specially created outdoor courtyard theater Apichatpong calls the "Mirage Cinema."

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Mirage Cinema" in Sharjah.

Adele Horne (Faculty, Program in Film and Video) will screen her most recent film, Maintenance at the Images Festival in Toronto, in April. She will also participate in an artists talk entitled "Fresh Lenses on the Domestic Sphere," with filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Adele and her collaborator, photographer Karin Johansson (MFA '97, School of Art), recently launched an interactive website related to the film Maintenance. The website "Cleaning: People Talk About Housework" (www.cleaningstories.com) is a place for people to share stories, memories, and images of cleaning house.

Maintenance, by Adele Horne

Suzan Pitt's (Faculty, Experimental Animation) new film Pinball will be screened in Flatpack Film Festival, in Birmingham, England, March 2013. Pinball will also be in competition at the Melbourne International Film Festival, June 2013. A program titled "The Wonderfully Strange and Surreal Animation of Suzan Pitt" will be presented at the 13th Belfast Film Festival on April 17, 2013 in Belfast, Ireland.

Pinball. by Suzan Pitt

The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival, which takes place in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March 2013, will include many CalArts alumni and faculty:

Akosua Adoma Owusu (MFA '08, Program in Film and Video / Art (Interschool)), Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful.
Alexandra Cuesta (MFA '08, Program in Film and Video), Despedida.
Charlotte Pryce (Faculty, Program Film and Video), Looking Glass Insects.
James Benning (Faculty, Program Film and Video), The United State of America.
Kate Dollenmayer (MFA '05, Program in Film and Video), Monad by Chris Cohen.
Laida Lertxundi (MFA '07, Program in Film and Video), The Room Called Heaven, Farce Sensationelle!, A Lax Riddle Unit, Cry When it Happens (Llora Cuando Te Pase), My Tears are Dry, Footnotes to a House of Love.
Madison Brookshire (MFA '07, Program in Film and Video), Passage.
Mariah Garnett (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video), Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin.
Maureen Selwood (Faculty, Experimental Animation), A Modern Convenience.
Maya Erdelyi (MFA '12, Experimental Animation), Pareidolia.
Meejin Hong (MFA '12, Experimental Animation), Sugarcoat.
Naoko Tasaka (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video), Flower.
Rhys Ernst (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video) and Zachary Drucker (MFA '07, School of Art), She Gone Rogue.
Suzan Pitt (Faculty, Experimental Animation), Asparagus, The Damnation of Faust, Crocus, Whitney Commercial, Bowl, Theatre, Garden, Marble Game, Pinball, Joy Street, El Doctor, Jefferson Circus Songs.
Song E Kim (MFA '07, Experimental Animation), Bite of Tail.
Joanna Priestley (MFA '85, Experimental Animation), Dear Pluto.
Bill Brown (MFA '97, Program in Film and Video), Memorial Land.
Peter Bo Rappmund’s (MFA '11, Program in Film and Video), Tectonics.

Posted by lpiazza on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 5:30pm

Opportunities 03/24/2013

Art Directors Launch New Training Program

The Art Directors Council of the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) has established its first training program designed to develop and prepare new talent for the art of production design. Students can visit the Art Directors Guild website for the complete schedule and online application: http://www.adg.org/?art=adg-apprenticeship

Freewaves seeks videos by artists for LA buses

Freewaves is seeking two-minute artists-activist-storytellers’ videos about health, environment, rights or anything else on your mind to show to one million riders per day on all 2000 Metro buses in LA County in 2013. Videos may be animation, documentaries, narratives and experimental videos. "We invite you to share your impressions, offer information and insights, and present issues relating to L.A. Taken together we hope to create a mosaic of our complex city. The project aims to enrich the bus environment for riders through media offerings that coax them to explore what exists OUT THE WINDOW in a new way."
Freewaves will pay $100-$400 per video. ($100 for pre-existing, $200 for custom editing, $400 for newly commissioned works) apply online at www.freewavesopencall.org.

Berklee College of Music Film Scoring Student

Composer David
Murillo, a Berklee College of Music Film Scoring Student, is offering
his composing skills to students that needs any kind of music in their
movie. David Murillo <dmurillo@berklee.edu>

Posted by lpiazza on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 5:00pm

Upcoming Film Festival Submission Deadlines 03/24/2013

Mill Valley Film Festival 2013

Entry deadline: May 17,2013
Entry fee: $30 (short films); $50 (features)
Festival dates: October 3-13, 2013
Website: http://www.mvff.com/#how

Known as a filmmakers' festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival offers a high profile, prestigious and non-competitive environment perfect for celebrating the best in independent and world cinema. MVFF accepts short and feature length films and videos in the following categories: narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, children’s films and youth produced.

AFI Fest 2013

Entry deadline: August 2, 2013 (short films under 30 min); August 16, 2013 (features)
Entry fee: $50 (short films); $70 (features)
Festival dates: November 7-14, 2013 in Hollywood
Website: http://www.afi.com/afifest/submissions.aspx

Since its launch as FILMEX in 1971, Los Angeles' longest running international film festival has been bringing world cinema to the film capital of the world. 2011 marked the 25th edition of the festival as AFI FEST, the American Film Institute's annual celebration of international cinema from modern masters and emerging filmmakers that features nightly red-carpet galas, special screenings, conversations and tributes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI FEST as a qualifying festival for the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards, and AFI FEST is still the only film festival in the United States to hold the prestigious FIAPF accreditation, assuring a high standard of quality and reliability for the international film community.

Posted by lpiazza on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 5:00pm

Alumni Accomplishments: 03/04/2013

Musée16, Art gallery in Los Angeles, presented last Thursday, February 28, "An evening with Filmmaker Nicole Emmons" (MFA '10, Experimental Animation). Her films were screened and puppets from her films were on display. http://musee16.blogspot.com/

Puppet Love by Nicole Emmons

Posted by lpiazza on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 11:00am

Student Accomplishments: 03/04/2013

Diego Robles (MFA 2, Program in Film and Video) and Peter Nichols (Critical Studies) were generously invited to the Power Up! Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Convergence, that took place on February 22-24 in Philadelphia. http://studentsdivest.org/

Posted by lpiazza on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 11:00am

Upcoming Events: 03/04/2013

On Saturday, March 9, the UCLA Film and Television Archive will present, as part of its Festival of Preservation, the world premiere of the restoration of Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, by Thom Andersen (Faculty, Program in Film and Video). The film has been blown up to 35mm. It has been retimed so that the colors match more closely the tinting of Muybridge's photographs and photogravures, and some sections have been digitally restored. After Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, there will be a screening of films from 1900-1902 preserved from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection. The screening will take place at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (at Westwood Boulevard).

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, by Thom Andersen

On Sunday, March 10, Los Angeles Filmforum will present Thom Andersen's (Faculty, Program in Film and Video) newest film Reconversão or Reconversion, about the work of the northern Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura. This screening will take place in the Spielberg theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. Although Reconversão was screened in Los Angeles and elsewhere in 2012, this will be the first presentation of the movie with its final mix.

RECONVERSÃO, Thom Andersen from Curtas CRL on Vimeo.

Posted by lpiazza on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 10:30am

Faculty Accomplishments: 03/04/2013

MOCATV interviewed Hilja Keading (Faculty, Program Film and Video) about her last video installation, The Bonkers Devotional, in which she interacts with a live trained bear. Intertwining the literal with the symbolic, this installation consists of Keading, Bonkers (the name of the bear), and Quaking Aspen trees. Visitors are overwhelmed in the exterior of the installation by the scale and magnitude of nature itself, and by their expectations of what might occur, and responses to what is happening, inside.

Posted by lpiazza on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 10:30am

Opportunities: 03/04/2013

6h G.I.R.L. scholarship competition from Sony Online Entertainment

The scholarship's purpose is to encourage career paths in the creative and applied arts, with the ultimate goal of developing video games that are more interesting for women to play. The winner will be awarded a $10,000 scholarship towards tuition, room and board and other education-related expenses, as well as an internship of up to ten weeks at SOE's headquarters in San Diego or SOE Austin. Entries due before 11:59 p.m. (PST), March 29, 2013. https://www.soe.com/girl/

Nickelodeon Animation Shorts Program

Animated shorts must be: comedic, character driven and have kid appeal! Nickelodeon Animation Shorts Program is looking for ideas that feature an original, funny lead character with about 2 or 3 characters in total. Be prepared to show either through designs, thumbnail storyboards or script, how funny and unique your characters are. Characters must be relatable to kids ages 6 to 11 and appeal to both boys and girls. All submissions must be kid-appropriate in content.
Shorts are limited to 2 minutes in length and should primarily take place in 1 setting.
All animation styles are accepted, including 2D, digital 2D, CG, Stop Motion, Flash and Mixed Media.
Your pitch materials must include:
- Concept Treatment
- Character Descriptions: Designs and/or written
- 2 minute rough thumbnail storyboards or 2 minute outline/script
- Signed submission release form
Online submissions can be sent via www.nickshortspitches.com
The deadline for pitch submissions is March 29, 2013.

Call for Art Feminist Art Show

Primary Concepts and the Davis Feminist Film Festival are pleased to announce a call for feminist art. They are accepting art across mediums, including: painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, metal work, etc.
Art submitted to the show must meet one of the following criteria:
- Art created with an eye for gender and/or social justice issues
- Art created by people underrepresented in the art and media fields (women,
people of color, queer/transgender, disabled, etc.)
How to Submit:
Please send photos of the work you would like to submit along with dimensions by March 7, 2013 to:
foreverjess@gmail.com.
The Feminist Art show will run for the month of April at Delta of Venus, 122 B Street.
Opening Reception with live music on Friday, April 5 at 7pm.

Posted by lpiazza on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 10:00am

Alumni Accomplishments: 02/18/2013

In January, Madison Brookshire (MFA '07, Program in Film and Video) became one of the eight grantees of the inaugural LA Artist Initiative, a grant program for emerging visual artists co-sponsoredby the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and the Los Angeles Department ofCultural Affairs (DCA).

East Hollywood Street Series, by Madison Brookshire

Posted by lpiazza on Tue, 02/19/2013 - 12:00am