*David Fenster,* alumnus, Program in Film and Video announced his film
TRONA is now available on DVD. The disk includes bonus features such as
additional footage of the band Fireworks and a short film.
To purchase the film, visit UIM or go to the Trona website.

*Cy Kuckenbaker,* alumnus, Film Directing program has just finished a
new DVD that's on sale for dual fundraisers A: development projects in the village of Zolokere, Malawi and B: a new, larger, more in depth film about HIV in Malawi that will also serve to raise funds for projects there.

Cy's big idea is this: connect film audiences with film subjects by
seeing that a portion of the film’s profit goes back into the community
where it was shot. You purchase the film, you learn about them and enjoy
the story, and they benefit from you. The philanthropy is built in.
Cy's next adventure to Munich for a film festival where his film "The
Orphans is being screened, then on to Malawi for the next three months
to shoot.

There's a preview of the film on the site cysfilm.com, as well as a
secure shopping cart where you can purchase the disc.

Mike Plante's "LUNCHFILM SERIES", which includes short works by both
*James Benning *and *Nina Menkes,* faculty, Program in Film/Video, was a
hit at CINEMATEXAS, and has subsequently been invited to screen at
Sundance, January 18-28th, 2007, and at the Pacific Film Archive on
February 7,2007.

*Jackee Chang*, alumna, Film Directing program held a fundraiser
November 19th at the Pacific Arts Center & Dance Studios for her
documentary "Excess Pulp" (a new documentary on the current situation of
Agent Orange in Vietnam)

"Excess Pulp" is a new documentary on the current unsettling and
sensitive situation in Vietnam. It is going to follow the extended stay
of the filmmaker in Vietnam. She will be covering the areas of Agent
Orange Damage- traveling from Hanoi through Central Vietnam (the most
concentrated AO defoliants) then ending up in Saigon. Time will be spent
with the AO victims and their families. The film will try to grapple and
come to terms with the present damage that Agent Orange has on the
Vietnamese society.

Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival, November 10-12, 2006 included the
following films from CalArts students
/Beautiful Eyes/ – Directed, Produced and Written by *Will Kim*
(Character Animation)
/ Henry/ – Directed, Produced and Written by *Kim Slate* (Character
Animation), /awarded *Best College Film*/
/ Intracorp/ – Directed and Written by *John Paul Sawan* (Program in
Film and Video), /*Honorable Mention*/
/ Lightbulb/ – Directed, Produced and Written by *Jian Lee*
(Experimental Animation)
/ Kozard From Jelacoe/ - Directed, Produced and Written by *SunHa Yoon*
(Character Animation)
/ Margaret’s Son/ – Directed, Produced and Written by *Esteban Argüello
*(Film Directing program), /*Honorable Mention*/
/ Pinpoint/ – Directed, Produced and Written by *James Kim* (Character
Animation)

Shon (Si-Hun) Kim, alumnus, MFA, Experimental Animation program has been
busy and successful screening his thesis film "Latent Sorrow" at the
following venues.
*Awards:*

New Jersey International Film Festival 2006, Best Experimental Film / Video
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2006, Best Experimental Film* *
World-wide HIV/AIDS Art Competition, 1^st prize, Orange County
Contemporary Art Center
Experimental Film & Video Festival In Seoul 2005, Fuji Film Eterna Award
Brainwash TV Show and Movie Festival 2006, 2nd Grand Prize
Busan Video Festival 2005, Excellence Award, Alternative Space Bandee
53rd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Honorable Mention
Boston Motion Picture Awards 2005-2006, Semi Finalist
Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition 2006, Preliminary List

*Exhibitions: *
Tomorrowland, Oct 5-8 2006 , REDCAT, LA**
TARFEST, Oct 5-8 2006 , Miracle Mile District , LA
Video and Animation Exhibition, Sept 22- Nov 10 2006 , The Foundry Art
Centre, MO**
MoMA's tribute to CalArts, Aug 6 & 12 2006, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Tour des Artistes, Jun 24 2006 , East Village Arts District, Long Beach
Emerging Filmmakers from CalArts, May 13-14 2006 , Edgemar Center for
the Arts, Santa Monica

Screen Slam, Nov 17 2005 , The Orange County Museum of Art , CA
Unfinished Works, Dec 1-11 2005 , The Orange County Contemporary Art
Center , CA
2006 Digital Film Show, Dec 2 2006 , BLINDSOUND Media Hub, Seoul
Drawing & Asian Painting Animation Exhibition, Dec 5-20 2006 , Gallery
Mass, Seoul
ROK-US Invitational Exhibition by Leading Korean Master Painters , May
26-29 2005 , Seoul

*Screenings *
Pan-African Film Festival of Cannes 2007 , France
Tampere Film Festival 2007, Finland
International Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy
2006, Beijing
Sleepwalkers Student Film Festival 2006, Estonia
Miami Short Film Festival 2006
Arkansas Black Film Festival 2006, Arkansas
Sopot Film Festival 2006, Poland
Braunschweig International Film Festival 2006, Germany
L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona 2006 , Spain* *
New England Film & Video Festival 2006, MA * *
FAIF International Film Festival 2006, Mann's Chinese Theatres, Hollywood
Oxnard Independent Film Festival 2006, CA* *
DigiFestival 2006, Italy
Imaginaria Film Festival 2006, Italy
Ankara Intercultural Amateur Film Festival 2006, Turkey
Antimatter Underground Film Festival 2006, Canada
Student Shorts Film Festival 2006, Toronto
SoCal Independent Film Festival 2006, CA
International short film festival Balchik 2006, Bulgaria
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2006, San Diego
The Fourth and the Last Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2006, Germany
San Francisco International Festival of Short Films 2006, SF
NextFrame 2006-2007, PA
Odense Film Festival 2006, Denmark
ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival 2006, Romania
ANIMA MUNDI 2006, 14th International Animation Festival of Brazil
Global Art Film Festival 2006, Hollywood , NY , Sacramento, Rio De
Janeiro, San Juan
International Film Festival ART FILM 2006, Slovak Republic
Review of the Experimental Films and Video Art 2006, Poland
Talent Circle Super Shorts Film Festival 2006, London & UK
*Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2006, ** Republic** of
**Korea** *
INDIEFEST 2006, Chicago
Slamdance Anarchy, July 2006
Roxbury Film Festival 2006, MA
Winnipeg International Film Festival 2006, Canada
FILMSTOCK 2006, UK
Busan Asian Short Film Festival 2006, * Republic** of **Korea*
Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Jovem de Esphino 2006 , Portugal
VC FILMFEST 2006, LA
Eugene Film Festival 2006, OR
Trenton Film Festival 2006, NJ
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image 2006, FL
Santa Cruz Film Festival 2006, CA
The End of the Pier International Film Festival 2006, UK
Mid Ulster Film Festival 2006, Northern Ireland
Calgary Underground Film Festival 2006, Canada
Next Festival 06, Lithuania * *
Indianapolis International Film Festival 2006, IN * *
Philadelphia Film Festival 2006, PA * *
The East Lansing Film Festival 2006, MI
San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2006, SF
Kino-Vision Cinematech, 2006, Kyoto
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2006, Chicago * *
Queens International Film Festival 2005, NY
Yonsei University Moving Images Anchorage , 2005, Seoul
New Media Festival in Seoul 2005, Seoul
Juan Media Festival 2005, *Republic **of **Korea*
Avanto Media Art Festival 2005, Helsinki
Chicago Underground Film Festival 2005, Chicago
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival 05, Switzerland
CalArts Showcase 2005 , LA

*Chris Choy*, alumnus, Character Animation, was the winner of the
Special Distinction Award in Student Work Category for his film "The
Possum" at the 3rd China International Animation and Digital Arts
Festival in China. Besides being awarded a prize certificate and trophy,
Chris was awarded a cash prize of $500.

Beth Bird, '03 alumna, Integrated Media/Program in Film and Video continues to have great success with her first feature length film Everyone Their Grain Of Sand. Everyone Their Grain of Sand played in October, 2006, at the Morelia International Film Festival, Morelia, Mexico. The film has played regularly since its premiere in the 2004 Vienna Int'l Film Festival.

Nancy Buchanan, faculty, Program in Film and Video, will have a show Nov. 4th- Dec 16th, "Decoys & Destructions" at the Overtones Gallery. Opening Reception Sat. Nov. 4th at 7pm.

Nabawia El-Soudani's film, Hal Tara, will screen at LA's Freewaves festival, "Too Much Freedom." "Too Much Freedom" unleashes 100 videos in the Hammer Museum's central courtyard with two phantasmagoric floors of simultaneous video
projections. Cheeky and challenging, maddening and inspiring, come celebrate and explore artists' interpretations of freedom, and ask yourself: too much. . . or too little?

MFA 3 Chie Yamayoshi's experimental piece I Want to Make a Video about You will screen in November at UCLA Hammer Museum as part of the LA Freewaves 10th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts. Work description::: I Want to Make a Video about You, Video by Chie Yamayoshi "I am looking for someone who can pretend to be my family member, best friend or lover...," Looking for intimacy on the Internet. Rendezvous with strangers. Dealing with cyber-culture, the reality TV phenomenon, and racial stereotypes, this narrative probes the gray area between truth and fiction, private and public, danger and pleasure, intimacy and anonymity, and fantasy and identity.

Jason Tippet, BFA 2, Program in Film and Video has been invited to screen his film "Nanie" (rt-3:20, 2006, super 8 color negative) at the 2006 Attack of the 50 Foot Reels. The screening will take place November 6, 2006, 7:30pm, American Cinematheque at the the Egyptian Theatre.

Adele Horne�s film The Tailenders screened at several venues in the spring and summer of 2006, 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 V�rit� at Williams College/MASS MoCA. On July 25, 2006, The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on P.O.V., a PBS program that showcases independent non-fiction film. In October 2006, The Tailenders screened in the Morelia International Film Festival in Michoacan, Mexico. Adele Horne, Faculty, Program in Film and Video.

Betzy Bromberg, Director, Program in Film and Video, had been invited to screen her film A Darkness Swallowed (2005, 16mm, 78:00) at the 7th Seoul Film Festival held in South Korea, 9/06 and 12th Athens International Film Festival in Greece, 9/26/06. Synopsis: Six years in the making, Betzy Bromberg's latest film is a meditation on the physical traces that memories leace behind on and inside our bodies, and on and inside the Earth. Cleverly beginning with images of two nearly
identical, somewhat-worn photographs of a partially crushed car and a narration about psychic tied to an event that happened before the existence of the narrator, the film then plunges into a microscopy of epic proportions.

Five students work will be shown as part of KCET's FineCut series. The films included are:
Disconnected by Eric Favela
In Search of the Puppeeter by Chih-Ming Chang
Intracorp by John Paul Swan
Aesexuality by Josh Look
Doppelganger by Joy Lee

Congratulations to the filmmakers!

2006 London International Animation Festival, London, August 22-27, 2006, International Student Animation Panorama category (32 films, 12 schools, wild ideas, raw energy...the following student films were selected and screened at this festival: The Bastard by Dave Quion, Cat Food by Nate Wragg and Someday Never by Stephen Hawkins.

Cy Kuckenbaker, '06 Film Directing program alum, has been invited by the pre-selection jury, of the 26th Munich International Festival of Film Schools to screen his thesis film "The Orphans". Additionally, Cy has been invitation to attend the festival as their guest.