The 3rd China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival (CICDAF
2006), Beijing, China 9/27-10/5, 2007: the following CalArts student
films were selected to be screened: Speech of Freedom by Nancy
Parczyk, MFA 3, Exp. Animation; Stalemate by In-Young Sung, MFA 2,
Film Directing Program (Character Animation alumnus), Jurassic Chef by
Minki Song, Character Animation alumnus, and The Possum by Chris Choy,
Character Animation alumnus. Chris Choy was awarded the "Special
Distinction Award in Student Work Category" for his film The Possum.
Congrats to all the filmmakers!

Apolonia Panagopoulos' film, The Tropic of Faxafloi, will be representing CalArts in the "Into the Limelight" student film program/ competition at the Ojai Film Fest, which runs from October 12-15. The program of shorts by student filmmakers from 12 U.S. film schools including CalArts screens at 8pm, friday October 13, 2006. The 12 student filmmakers will be competing for a $60,000 panavison rental package.

Suzan Pitt, facuty, Experimental Animation will be screening her films
at the following upcoming events:
*Taiwan International Animation Festival
*Taipei, Taiwan
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Ottawa International Animation Festival
*Ottawa, Canada, U S A
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Cinesol Film Festival
*Harlingen, Texas, U S A
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Estenest Film Festival
*Bucarest, Romania
September 2006 (Film Festival)
*Ojai International Film Festival
*Ojai, U S A
October 2006 (Film Festival)
*Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
*Los Angeles, U S A
October 2006 (Film Festival)
*2006 New Jersey Film Festival
*New Brunswick, New Jersey, U S A
October 2006 (Film Festival)
*Redcat Theater, Disney Hall
*Los Angeles, U S A
October 2006 (Theatrical)
*Denver International Film Festival
*Denver, U S A
November 2006 (Film Festival)
*Museum of Modern Art
*New York, U S A
November 2006 (Theatrical)
theatrical screenings:Lincoln, NE
*Ross Media Arts Center*
August 18 - August 31, 2006
El Doctor

2006 Princess Grace Awards have been announced. In the aspiring Film
artist category, recipients include our own David Chaim Cohen and Miwa
A. Matryek.

David has been awarded a Undergraduate Film Scholorship, Experimental Film.
David Chaim Cohen has been an experimental filmmaker for five years; in
high school he realized that moving images were the perfect vehicle for
his electronic music. After entering CalArts for his undergraduate
degree, he began working extensively in 16mm, and discovered
hand-processing, painting on film, and optical printing. His most recent
works are /Untitled/ and /Rusted Sodom/. Currently, David is working on
a new, completely hand-painted film.

Miwa has been awarded a Graduate Film Scholarship, Experimental
Animation Film.
Miwa A. Matreyek is currently studying as an M.F.A. student in the
experimental animation program at CalArts. She was a physics major for
the first two years of her undergraduate career at the University of
California, Santa Barbara before she switched to fine art. Miwa�s
interest in science might explain why much of her art work relates to
science fiction. Some of her recent animation works are: /Grater City/
and /Digitopia/. Her most recent collaborative performance projects are
/Subterranean Heart/ and /Ozeanflug/.

J.R. Hughto's documentary The Mirror Eye will screen throughout September and October in New York City's Lubin House Gallery as part of the Clement Greenberg: Then and Now exhibit. The film plays alongside the work of the five artists that are detailed in the film along with art critic Clement Greenberg (Stephen Achimore, Scott Bennett, Darryl Hughto, Mark Raush, Susan Roth). The film is available as part of a show catalogue of the upstate New York artists whose lives and work were deeply affected by the critic.

James Benning and Nina Menkes, Faculty, Program in Film and Video both
made "lunch films" for Mike Plante's Lunch Film Series, screened Sept.
2006 at Cinema Texas.

Adele Horne, Faculty, Program in Film and Video has screened her film
The Tailenders at several venues spring and summer '06, including:
the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight; San Francisco
Cinematheque; Pacific Film Archive; Film Arts Foundation; Nashville Film
Festival; Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (PDX);
the 52nd Flaherty Film Seminar; Chicago Underground Film Festival; and
a conference titled "Extreme Documentary: Alternative Verite" at
Williams College/MASS MoCA. On July 25, 2006 , Tailenders was
broadcast nationally on P.O.V., a PBS program that showcases independent
non-fiction film.

Dave Quion, bfa 3, Character Animation will be interviewed by X-FUN
magazine, a Taiwan-based visual art bilingual magazine, regarding his
"Best Student film" award at the Melbourne Int'l Animation Film Festival
for his film "The Bastard".

Nina Menkes, Faculty, Program in Film and Video would like to share with the CalArts the community her exciting news regarding her work: The Bloody Child has been invited for a special "favorite films" screening at the Arsenals Film Festival in Riga, Latvia (where it won the top fest prize in 1998), this September 2006.

The Bloody Child will screen at UC Irvine on October 5th as part of a film series called "The Look of Law", curated by Simon Leung.

Nina Menkes just wrapped principle photography on a new feature, Phantom Love, starring Marina Shoif and Juliette Marquis. The film was shot on 35mm black and white film and many CalArts students and Faculty participated, including Logan Wince: Production Designer (Theater-mentored by Chris Barreca) , Natasha Subramaniam: Assistant Director, Erica Frank: Costume Designer (Theater, mentored by Ellen McArtney), Marcel Wepper: Video Segments, Dave Emerson: Faculty, Optical Effects.

A selection of Nina's films will screen at the CINE FANTOM club in Moscow, Russia winter, 2006.