Adele Horne, Faculty, Program in Film and Video announced that her film The Tailenders has just been nominated for the "Truer Than Fiction Award" in the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. This award "is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features: a filmmaker of unique vision and talent who has not yet received significant attention." Award decisions will be announced at the end of February. Alumna Maile Colbert is honored to have had the opportunity to design the sound for The Tailenders.

The Tailenders, a film by Adele Horne
The Tailenders is a captivating look at a missionary group’s use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces. Global Recordings Network, founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. The documentary traces their journeys in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, where they distribute the recordings, along with ultra-low-tech hand-wind audio players, to "the Tailenders" – the last people to be reached by worldwide evangelism.

For more information:
P.O.V. website on The Tailenders

Distribution information on The Tailenders

Nina Menkes, Faculty, Progam in Film and Video is thrilled to announce that her new feature film, PHANTOM LOVE, has been invited to premiere at Sundance 2007.

PHANTOM LOVE is a surreal drama about a woman trapped within an enmeshed
family, and her slow process of personal liberation. Shot primarily in in Los Angeles, the film combines fairy-tale elements with brutal black and white photography to create a powerful testament about one woman's descent into self. With Marina Shoif and Juliette Marquis. Produced by Kevin Ragsdale. Director of Photography Chris Soos. Conceived and Directed by Nina Menkes. 35mm/b&w/2007/85 minutes.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/phantomlovemovie

CARTE BLANCHE TO CALARTS IN
8eme Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris
Centre Culturel la Clef
21 rue de la Clef, 75005 Paris
December 8 to 17, 2006

Entirely dedicated to experimental, avant-garde, independent, alternative and underground cinema, the Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris presents a carte blanche to CalArts as part of his eight edition. Twenty-six works completed by film/video-makers recently enrolled at CalArts or recent graduates will be presented in two different evenings, on Saturday December 9 at 10:00 pm and Monday December 11 at 10:00 pm.

This program was initiated by French experimental filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski, who was in residence at CalArts and REDCAT last February. Betzy Bromberg and Bérénice Reynaud made a first pre-selection, and then Patrick Bokanowski, assisted by Paris-based American critic Pip Chodorov, decided the final program.

Program 1

Program 2