Jenny Stark, alumni, MFA, Program in Film and Video will be screening her work, collection of Films and Videos at the ECHO PARK FILM CENTER, Thursday, September 23 at 8pm.

In the 2004 Annual Adobe Design Achievement competition, Experimental Animation student Junseo Hahm won second place within the Time Based Media category with his film, Mosition.

Mosition may be viewed in the 2004 Experimental Animation Showcase.

Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film (2004), KCET Channel 28, Sunday nights, 11pm-12midnight, September 5, 12, 19, 26th...Show lineups finalized as of 8/27/04:
Show One, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004 included "Venice Beach" by Jung-Ho Kim (MFA, Exp. Anim)
Show Three, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004 included "Skies of the Fallen" by Chris Minki Song; Kevin Pai; Kyle Shockley; Gennady Babichenko (BFA Char. Anim). Also, "My Red Fox" by Bee Pi (Alumi, MFA Exp. Anim).
Show Four, Sunday Sept. 26, 2004 @11:00pm will include "Welcome to My Life" by Elizabeth Ito (alumni, BFA, Char. Anim)

Skies of the Fallen and Welcome to My Life may be viewed in the 2004 Character Animation Showcase. Venice Beach and My Red Fox may be viewed in the 2004 Experimental Animation Showcase.

Animation house Vinton Studios has purchased film rights to Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award-winning children's book " "Coraline" as a directing vehicle for "Nightmare Before Christmas" director Henry Selcik. Selcik began working on the screen adaption for "Coraline" with Pandemonium before joining Vinton Studios as supervising director last May. Selick just completed his stint as animation director on the new Wes Anderson feature "The Life Aquatic" and is storyboarding his CG short film for Vinton, "Moongirl".

Cy Kuckenbaker, MFA student in Film Directing, on leave with Fulbright in Lithuania, has been selected to screen his work The Potato Eater, a documentary about the Peace Corps in the Shadow Fest Film Festival in Holland. Also his film La Pacifica was well received at the San Diego Film Festival.

Kirsten Winter, Faculty, Experimental Animation, School of Film Video will be screening her work at the following venues through-out the fall:

"Restored Weekend": 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 18-29th August 2004 World Film Festival Montreal, Canada, Aug/Sept. 2004; at the Cinema out Ecran, Film and Television Film Festival that will take place from October, 29th to November 7th, 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland; Dokfilmfestival Leipzig, Oct. 2004; 40th Chicago Int. Film Festival, October 7-21, Experimental Short Competition.

"Escape" Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro ‚ Artificial Architecture’

"Filmolog" opens the Symposium Oct. 1st. (something like: Film Reflects Film, Mannheim); Dokfilmfestival Leipzig, Oct. 2004; Short Film Festival, Munich, Oct. 2004.

"Just In Time" Goethe Institute: German Experimental films.

"Workshow" Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage - 19. bis 21. November 2004

SON OF SATAN, by JJ Villard, alumni (2004) Character Animation, has been selected to take part to the International Short Film Competition of Cinema Tout Ecran, Film and Television Film Festival that will take place from October 29th to November 7th 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland.

CalArts' student filmmaker, Jahmad Rollins' animated film, The War Inside, has been selected by Savannah Film and Video Festival, and will be screened from Oct. 27 to Nov. 3 at the Trustees Theatre in Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, Georgia. This animated short shows an illustrator struggling to give life to his ideas, dreaming about what to draw, and alternately killing and creating new subjects.

Since its inception in 1998, the Savannah Film Festival has focused on enriching and educating an expanding audience, while promoting quality independent films and filmmakers. The festival features more than 50 films, selected from more than 600 entries in the categories of feature, short, animation, documentary and student competition, which are submitted from all over the world. The featured screenings represent a variety of independent filmmakers, while a cross section of workshops, lectures, receptions and special events gives the festival participants an opportunity to meet colleagues active in all areas of film production.

Arthur Helterbran, an MFA 3 in the Film Directing Program, will be screening his short, "The Badge" at Shriekfest on 9/25/04, 10:00am at Raliegh Studios in Hollywood. Go to Shriekfest for more ino.

Maneesh Sharma's Sifar (Zero), has been selected to screen at the 10th Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, which will be held August 31 to September 6, 2004.

Sifar may be seen online at the Director's 2004 Showcase.

CalArts' student filmmaker, Nathaniel Lord's animated film, DinnerTime,
has been accepted by Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, and will be screened at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood this Sunday, September 12th 2004. For screening time, please check ArcLight's website.

'DinnerTime' is also showcased in Nathaniel's same-titled video installation, which is currently exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, as one selected piece in Fiction.Love-ultra new vision in contemporary Art, until 10/31.

Nathaniel Lord is currently a BFA-3 student in Character Animation program.