Suzan Pitt, Faculty, Experimental Animation has received amazing success with her new film EL DOCTOR, a 24-minute animated film, Festivals and Screenings:

**2006 San Diego Latino Film Festival
Chicago Latino Film Festival
Sin Fronteras Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM (BEST SHORT FILM)
Cinema Pochote, Oaxaca, Mexico
Huesca International Film Festival, Spain (SPECIAL JURY AWARD)
Film Forum (�Cartoons: No Laughing Matter�), New York
Filmforum, (�The films of Suzan Pitt�), Los Angeles
Taiwan International Festival of Animation, (�The films of Suzan Pitt�)
Hiroshima International Festival of Animation, Japan
Dallas Video Festival

EL DOCTOR reviews:

�Visually compelling�punchy and often shocking.�in images borrowed from Mexican folk art, it tells the story of an elderly doctor�s nightmarish final day on earth./�
-The New York Times

"A lavishly surreal parable about an aging Mexican doctor, painted in lurid, Crumb-like caricatures.� � Village Voice

"A stunning visual performance!� - StylusMagazine.com

�The justified finale of the program is Suzan Pitt's "El Doctor," an endlessly fantastical night with a drunk Mexican doctor, reeling with him across a landscape of self-creating myth and folk-art riffs.� - New York Sun

�Tinged with elements of magic realism and Mexican culture, and told using vivid oil colors, American animation El Doctor is a dazzling, haunting and poignant evocation of a man's final moments.� - Chris Robinson, ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE

EL DOCTOR will be distributed nationally by First Run Features and will be released theatrically in the fall 2006. A new DVD compilation "The Films of Suzan Pitt" will also be released in the fall. The DVD will include a new documentary about the filmmaker and other special features.

EL DOCTOR will screen at the Redcat Theater on October 3 with a program of films by Suzan Pitt.

The Adobe� Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement that reflects the powerful convergence of technology and creative arts. Students from schools in 24 countries throughout the world submitted nearly 1,500 entries to this year�s competition. Winners were chosen in nine categories, representing work by some of the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world�s top institutions of higher education.

This years' finalist included: *SunHa Yoon*, student, Character Animation program for her film Kozard from Jelacoe: (below is an excerpt from the Adobe Design website)

Biography: Sunha Yoon is a character animator at California Institute of the Arts. Her interest in art and science began at home. Sunha used to draw and paint with her mom and discuss science projects with her dad. She went to school in Korea for further study in biology, and two years ago, she decided to study animation at CalArts. She finally got into film, which is new for her, and she's been exploring an interest in animation, motion graphics, and visual development.

Objective: It's 2D animation drawn by hand. But I added some texture and effects with Adobe� Photoshop� and After Effects�, so it has a different and unique feeling.

Tools used: I used Photoshop for background and After Effects for drawings, camera moves, and other effects. And I used Adobe Premiere� for exporting as
a movie file.

The student winners were honored by Adobe and the design community at a special event held on July 20, 2006, at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.

Dave Quion, student, Character Animation was awarded the BEST STUDENT FILM at the Melbourne Int'l Animation festival June 2006 for his film The Bastard.

Mike Ott, alumni, MFA, Program in Film and Video, May 2005 has been invited to screen his film "Analog Days" at Viennale International Film Festival, Vienna, October 13-25, 2006. The festival selection committee in their own words "really enthusiastic about this excellent piece of cinema work...would be very honored and grateful to present "Analog Days" at this year's festival".