Film Directing Program alumnus Taylor Greeson (MFA, 2007) will attend the World Premiere of his thesis film Meadowlark at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. IFF Boston takes place April 23-29, 2008. Greeson was also invited to screen his film at NewFest 2008: the 20th Anniversary New York LGBT Film Festival. NewFest runs
June 5-15.

Taylor Greeson (MFA Film Directing alumnus, 2007) was invited to screen his thesis film, Meadowlark, at Chicago Filmmakers on February 29, 2008 at 8PM. The screening is co-presented by Chicago Filmmakers and the Chicago Cinema Forum.

Will Kim's film, Naked Branches (alum, Character Animation), has had great success on the festival circuit, playing at the following festivals:

-14th annual student short film festival SHORT TAKES, UCLA /-Animation/
-4th annual Topanga Film Festival 07 /-Film Category/
-8th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival /-Animation/
-2nd annual FilmGate Int. Student Film Festival (St.Louis, Missouri)/
animation/experimental/
Winning, 2nd place in animation/experimental category
-2007 Taiwan International Animation Film Festival, Taiwan, China
-Terrabyte 2.0 Garden Installation Finalists, Los Angeles Arboretum
-2nd Animest International Animation Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
-2007 Animation Magazine's Student Short Film Awards -Magazine September
Issue
-7th annual The Student Shorts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
-17th International Animated Film Festival "Les Nuits Magiques", Begles,
France
- 4th Fresh Film Fest Karlovy Vary-Int. Student Film Festival, Czech
Republic/-Animation/
- 4th annual Austin Asian Film Festival, Austin, Texas (November 8-11th,
2007)
-Animation Nation 2007(Nov23-Dec1), Cal Arts Shorts (Singapore)
-6th annual Muskegon Film Festival, February 2008 (*Muskegon, MI*)
-DC Independent Film Festival-finalist, *Washington D.C.* (March6-16,2008)

Xuan Jiang, MFA 3, Film Directing Program has been invited to screen her thesis film August 15, Chinese title is Ba Yue Shi Wu (2007, 21min, super 16mm) at Sundance Film Festival 2008.

CalArts alums and current students teamed on the new The Cave Singers music video, from Matador Records. The video debuts on Mtv2 throughout November and December 2007.

Shot on 16mm black and white reversal, hand processed.

Director Mike Ott
Director of Photography Jason Joel Harris
Editor David Nordstrom
Camera assistants Jason Tippet and Tijah Bumgarner

Soul Fabric Films is proud to announce the World Premiere Screening of our recently completed documentary, Last Hat in Town - the portrait of three maverick westerners and their relationship to the rapidly changing Rocky Mountain West.

The film will show twice as part of the 30th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival. Each screening will be followed by a question and answer session with the Director and Producer of the film, and one or more of the main characters.

The screening dates and times are the following:

World Premiere Screening - Monday November 12th - 7 pm - Starz FilmCenter

Repeat Screening - Sunday November 18th - 12:30 pm Starz FilmCenter

You can purchase tickets (beginning Oct 26th) for both screenings by visiting this link for LAST HAT IN TOWN on the denverfilm.org website, or by visiting lasthatintown.com and following the link from there.

Here's a snippet of what's being said about the film:
"This beautiful and emotionally resonant film tells the story of individuals struggling
to shape their lives in a Western landscape ravaged by petroleum extraction.
What is most extraordinary about Last Hat in Town
is the depth and intimacy of the filmmaker's relationship with his subjects.
Viewers get to know and care about each of the film's characters, and, in the process,
come to a complex understanding of the social, environmental,
and economic impacts of the shift from ranching to drilling."
- Adele Horne, director of "The Tailenders,"- 2007 Spirit Award winner

Anal Shah's film Laxmi at the Gate will premiere at the 2007 Viennale.

2007 BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has announced (excerpt from website) The Education and Outreach Committee has selected six extraordinary short films from 30 submissions by 10 Southern California film Schools. A special reception, screening and award presentation of the submissions will take place Thursday, June 21st, 7pm at AFI-Mark Goodson theater. All BAFTA/LA Voting Members in attendance will receive a ballot, the ballots will be counted and the evening will conclude with presentation of the awards to the winners. The winner will receive a year's non-voting membership to BAFTA/LA. The finalist include the following two CalArts students:
Miwa Matreyek, alumnae '07, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM program, film title: DIGITOPIA
Chih-Ming Chang, alumnus '05, MFA, Experimental Animation program, film title: IN SEARCH OF THE PUPPETEER

Cy Kuckenbaker, alumnus '06, MFA, Film Directing program has been selected for consideration, for his film THE ORPHANS, in the Second Cilect Prize Competition, Bulgaria. The Second Cilect Prize Winner and four Honorable Mentions will be announced July 31, 2007.

The Melbourne 6th Annual Int'l Animation Festival (MIAF), June 19-24, 2007, located in ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. Another remarkable year of journeying far and wide to find the gems that will screened in this years line up. The following CalArts selections were included:

Suzan Pitt, faculty, Experimental Animation, film title - EL DOCTOR
Isabel Herguara, alumnae, MFA, Experimental Animation, film title - BLINDMAN'S BLUFF
Nick Fox-Geig, alumnus '04, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM, film title-THE FOXHOLE MANIFESTO
Dillon Markey, student, MFA, Experimental Animation, film title - HELLO, MY NAME IS JOE
Brian Bloss, alumnus '06, BFA, Experimental Animation, film title- WITHOUT AN OF
Dae In Chung, alumus '07, Experimental Animation, film title - STRIPS OF ILLUSION
Young-Jin Yoon, student, BFA3, Experimental Animation, film title- A WAR ON 35MM
Matt Nealon, student, BFA3, Character Animation, film title - TENECOH KOCMOCA
Leonardo Matsuda, student, BFA3, Character Animation, film title - THRISTY IGUANA
Miwa Matreyek, alumnae '07, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM program, film title: DIGITOPIA
I-Huan Chen, student, MFA2, Experimental Animation, film title - PASSING BY
Nancy Parczyk, alumnae '07, Experimental Animation, film title - PAIN'T

Will Kim, alumnus '07, Character Animation was invited to screen his senior film "Naked Branches" at the 14th Annual UCLA Shorttakes Film Festival, May 2007.

Mike Ott, alumni, '05 MFA Program Film and Video screened his thesis film "Analog Days" at the following festivals:

• Los Angeles Film Festival - June 2006


• Montreal Film Pop - Oct 2006


• VIENNALE, Vienna International Film Festival - Oct 2006


• Starz Denver Film Festival - Nov 2006


• Cinequest Film Festival - March 2007

Additionally, "Analog Days" has been selected to screen at the following venues:

• Mar Del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina) - March 2007


• Bradford Film Festival (UK) - March 2007


• Florida Film Festival - March 2007


• Indielisboa Film Festival (Portugal) - April 2007

Allan Brocka, alumni, MFA, Program in Film and Video BOY CULTURE opened theaters Friday, March 23 in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, the theatrical opening of BOY CULTURE! Directed by Allan Brocka, and co-wrote the script with Philip Pierce. It took nearly
a decade to make.

The movie is based on a brilliant, critically-acclaimed novel by Matthew Rettenmund and is produced by Stephen Israel, Victor Simpkins and Philip Pierce. It has won 18 national and international awards. Allan has been as far as Africa, Brazil, Montreal, and London, promoting it, and now in the US.

As many of you know, the first weekend box office determines if a film will sink or swim. Independent films are left to fend for themselves each week. The opening weekend numbers will determine how wide our film plays and how long it lives in theaters.

BOY CULTURE does not have a marketing budget to buy expensive TV commercials or billboards. We have only the power of community and grassroots outreach. With its awards and positive reviews, Boy Culture is getting a lot of attention right now, so its box office performance
will be watched carefully by others who are considering investing in gay-themed films.

If BOY CULTURE is not coming to your city, please call your local art house theater and ask them for it! We're trying to book it in every town possible, it's the theaters who don't think there's an audience for gay indie film. Just a single phone call from a local audience member can
change someone's mind. It happens all the time!

To find more information about the BOY CULTURE, to view the trailer and to read interviews with the actors, please go to:
www.boyculturemovie.com or
www.myspace.com/boyculture.

So far, the early reviews have been 100% positive!

Eric Leiser, almuni, '05 BFA, Experimental Animation has exciting news
to share:

Fringe Exhibitions gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles has included Eric's films "Emphemera" (2007) and "Forest" (2006) permanently into their media project screening within the gallery. The Getty may include the media project into their museum. Also the Hollywood Reporter Daily magazine has announced the completion of my 2nd feature film "Imagination". The DVD is expected to be released internationally in the last quarter of 2007 and will be entered into the festival circuit and screened nationally until then.

"Imagination" is an official selection for the Aarhus Film Festival of Independent Arts in Denmark. It will screen April 25th. Eric has been invited to come and speak about the film!

Nabawia El-Soudani, alumni, '06 MFA Program in Film and Video
Nabby's latest video installation had been accepted in the following exhibition Saturday, March 24, 2007 entitled "Turf", global reflections on planet earth, presented by Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825. Exhibition juried by Gregorio Luke, Director of the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA).

Maile Colbert, alumni, Program in Film and Video announced her wonderful fortune to be asked to participate in an arts residency in Nodar, Portugal October 2007 (Binaural).

On Radio Portugal, a program dedicated to the artists of the upcoming year, and a piece of Maile's was played. The piece is called Arshy's Song, dedicated to her dear friend Arshia Haq.

Colin Barton, alum and current Faculty, Experimental Animation program, School of Film/Video. Colin's film titled 'Friend Film' screened March 21st at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. This film premiered October 2006 at the Berkeley Film and Video Festival and won for 'best experimental film'

Asitha Ameresekere, Directing Program Alum, won the 2007 BAFTA for best short film for his film Do Not Erase.

MFA alum '06 Jesse Hassinger's film Everything Beautiful & Lofty iii: [Timshel] wil be playing as part of the "Visual Landscapes" program of the 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival at Tommy Doyle's Pub in Harvard Square Friday, March 23rd at 9:00pm.

MFA alum '06 Mirabelle Ang's new film, Match Made, is currently screening worldwide:

•VIENNALE, Vienna International Film Festival • Oct 2006
•Dok Market, 49th Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films •Oct 2006
•Mobile City Singapore, Asia Research Institute • Mar 2007
•Documentary Frame, 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival •Mar 2007
•International Competition, Cinéma du réel • Mar 2007
•25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival • Mar 2007
•Women Film Festival in Seoul • Apr 2007
•Free Programme, Singapore International Film Festival • Apr 2007
•Full Frame Film Festival • Apr 2007

*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.

*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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Congratulations....The following students/alumni have been selected to screen their work at the 3rd China Int'l Animation and Digital Arts Festival (CICDAF 2006), scheduled from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, 2006 in the City of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China: *Chris Choy*, alumni, Character Animation film title- The Possum*, Minki (Chris) Song*, alumni, Character Animation, film title-Jurassic Chef, *Nancy Parczyk*, MFA student, Experimental Animation, film
title-Speech of Freedom, I*n-Young (Alex) Sung*, alumni-Character Animation and currently enrolled as an MFA in Film Directing program, film title- Stalemate.

Nicholas Fox-Gieg, alumni, Exp. Animation program/Integrated Media program, graduate MFA May 2004, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to the Netherlands. He will studying realtime animation and music composition.

Chris Choy, alumni, School of Film/Video, character animation program
was awarded the gold medal, Saturday, June 10th for his film "The
Possum" (read more about the award below). Congratulations to Chris!!!

Animation*
Gold Medal: �The Possum,� Chris Choy, California Institute of the Arts

Beverly Hills, CA � Thirteen students from nine different colleges and
universities were honored tonight (June 10) as winners in the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences� 33rd annual Student Academy Awards
competition. For several days, they had participated in a slate of
industry-related activities and social events culminating with the
awards ceremony, which featured actress/writer Nia Vardalos, filmmaker
Kevin Smith and Academy President Sid Ganis as presenters, at the
Academy�s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. One film student from South Africa
also was selected to receive this year�s Honorary Foreign Student Film
Award.

The winners are:

*Alternative**
Gold Medal: �Perspective,� Travis Hatfield and Samuel Day, Ball
State University, Indiana
Silver Medal: � 6 A.M.,� Carmen Vidal Balanzat, City College of New York
* Only gold and silver medals were awarded in the Alternative category.

*Animation*
Gold Medal: �The Possum,� Chris Choy, California Institute of the Arts
Silver Medal: �The Dancing Thief,� Meng Vue, Ringling School of Art
and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Bronze Medal: �Turtles,� Thomas Leavitt, Brigham Young University

*Documentary*
Gold Medal: �Reporter Zero,� Carrie Lozano, University of
California, Berkeley
Silver Medal: �The Women�s Kingdom,� Xiaoli Zhou, University of
California, Berkeley
Bronze Medal: �Three Beauties,� Mak Hossain, Purdue University

*Narrative*
Gold Medal: �Christmas Wish List,� Sean Overbeeke, University of
North Carolina
Silver Medal: �El Viaje� ("One Day Trip"), Cady Abarca-Benavides,
Columbia University
Bronze Medal: �Pop Foul,� Moon Molson and Jennifer Handorf, Columbia
University

*Honorary Foreign Student Film Award*
�Elalini,� Tristan Holmes, The South African School of Motion
Picture Medium and Live Performance

While the U.S. winners knew they would each receive an award, the level
of that award � gold, silver or bronze � was not revealed until the
ceremony. Besides trophies, gold medalists received $5,000, silver
medalists were awarded $3,000 and bronze medal recipients were presented
with $2,000. The Honorary Foreign Film winner received $1,000 in
addition to the trophy.

The U.S. students first competed in one of three regional competitions.
Each of those regions was permitted to nominate as many as three
finalists in each of the four award categories. Academy members then
screened these finalists� films and voted to select the winners.

�Elalini,� by Honorary Foreign Film winner Tristan Holmes, was selected
from an original pool of 29 submissions from 22 countries. Holmes is the
first student from South Africa to win this award.

The Student Academy Awards were established by the Academy in 1972 to
support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.
Among past winners who have gone on to prominent careers as filmmakers
are Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, John Lasseter and Trey Parker. Three of
last year�s winners received Oscar nominations earlier this year: Dan
Krauss for his documentary, �The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the
Bang Bang Club,� Shane Acker for his animated short film, �9,� and
Honorary Foreign Film winner Ulrike Grote for her live action short �The
Runaway� (�Ausreisser�). Overall, 33 past Student Academy Award winners
have garnered Oscar nominations over the years.

Lee Nah (Lina) Yeo, alumni, Experimental Animation
Her film Crocodile Journals will be screened at Cannes, non-competitive section of "Tous Les Cinemas Du Monde" as part of the Singapore Showcase, May 2006. She was personally invited to attend the festival from the 21st to the 23rd. Lee Nah will be joining Infinite Frameworks, June 2006, as Animation Supervisor on their first animation feature "Sing to the Dawn" based on an important piece of south-east asian literature of the same name by Ming Fong Ho.

Conrats to Anitra Evans for "A Perfect Chaos" being screened as part of
the Pan African Film Festival,
Los Angeles 2/10 & 2/19 2006!

check website for entire festival programming: www.paff.org

Title: *A Perfect Chaos*
*Director: *Anitra N. Evans
*Screenwriter: *Anitra N. Evans
*Dir. of Photography: *David Doko
*Editor: *Anitra N. Evans & April Gaffni
*Country: *US
*Duration: *23
*Year: *2005*
*Schedule: *Friday, 2/10, 3:45pm; Sunday, 2/19, 7:00pm*

Pregnant woman suspects her husband is having an affair--but with whom?

It screens at the Magic Johnson Theaters in Los Angeles
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
3650 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Eon McKai, CalArts alum, was recently interviewed in the LA Times by Peter Gilstrap. Read what the alt-porn auteur has to say at the Los Angeles Times.

Rahul Das, alumni '05, Film Directing Program was invited to screen his film "The Intruder" in the Santa Clarita Independent Film Festival which took place November 12, 2005 held at the Canyon Theater Guild, Santa Clarita, CA

Henry Selick, alumni, Experimental Animation has been awarded the prestigious IFFF Friz Award (named after the late Warner Bros. animation legend Friz Freleng), October 1, 2005 at the Valencia, Hyatt, honoring Mr. Seick's enormous contribution to animation and filmmaking. Henry Selick presented the world premiere of his latest production, the all-computer-generated animated short "Moongirl" at the 11th Annual Family Film Festival

Si-Hun (Shon) Kim, alumni, MFA Experimental Animation program was selected to screen his film Latent Sorrow
at the Avanto Media Art Festival; World-wide HIV/Aids Art competition, 1st prize, the Orange County Contemparary Art Center; Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul 2005; 53rd Colombus International Film and Video Festival, student division winners, Ohio; Chicago Underground Film Festival 2005; New Media Festival, Seoul 2005; Juan Media Festival 2005, work collected by Yonsei University Moving Images Anchorage Archive, Korea.

Tamar Saliban, alumni, Program in Film and Video
announced her film Beautiful Armenians" was screened at the Golden Apricot Festival in Yerevan, Armenia in July and screened at the Arpa International Film Festival at the Arclight theater on Thursday, October 6 at 7pm in the Armenian program that evening.

Beth Bird, alum, MFA 12/03 Program in Film and Video
We are pleased to announce that *EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND* received two additional festival awards this month, winning the *FEATURE FILM AWARD* at the *SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL*, and *FESTIVAL FAVORITE* at the *OXNARD FILM FESTIVAL*. She was also featured in the September/October issue of *FILM COMMENT* in a review of the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Christine Beebe, alum, MFA, 5/05 Film Directing Program announced the documentary she has been working on for over a year, F*CK, is having it's world premier at the AFI FEST in LA at the Arclight Theater, Nov. 7th at 7pm. Christine started out on this film as an Academy of Motion Pictures intern while still in school and is now one of the Co-Producers. The film is about censorship in America. Also, her thesis film "The Band" have been selected to screen in the Anchorage Film Festival, Dec. 2005.

Rahul Das, alumni, MFA 5/05, Film Directing Program has been selected to screen his work "India Spiceland" and "The Intruder" in the 5th Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, NYC (Nov 2-6). His work "Men & Women" has been selected to be included in New Screen Television Program, Orlando, FL. New Screen is the world's first television service dedicated to the world of emerging and established independent film & video production.

Julia Croon, alumni, BFA 5/05, Program in Film and Video has been hired as a visual effects coordinator at a post production company. She had been offered a film theory teaching position at New Roads School, but turned it down due to the great opportunity at the post production company. Julia is assisting (in her words) "the greatest, funniest visual effects producer in the world." Julia has recently been published in an anthology...Best New Erotica writers, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Writers, publishers are Carroll and Graf in the US and Robinson in the UK.

Jay Keitel, alumni, Program in Film and Video, has been invited to screen his film "Black Dragon Canyon", a black and white western shot in Utah, at the Vienna Film Festival.

Lee Nah Yeo, alumni, Experimental Animation Program, has been invited to screen her film Crocodile Journals at the 38th edition of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia, Oct. 9-18, 2005. This festival is considered one of the most important festivals in Spain, recognized by FIAPF-IFFPA.

NIck Fox-Gieg's film The Option of War has been chosen to screen at Ottawa '05, Sept. 2005. Nick Fox-Gieg is a video artist and theatrical designer. His short works have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and on television in Canada, Israel, and the Netherlands. His theatrical video design has been featured in the Festival d'Avignon production Boxed In and in the Broadway musical Squonk; he's performed his live sound and video works at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and the Redcat Theater in Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at the STEIM Center in 2002, and in 2001 and 2003 he was awarded Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships.

Fox-Gieg is originally from Huntington, West Virginia; he got his MFA from CalArts in 2004, and his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999.

JJ Villard's film "Chestnuts Icelolly" has been selected to screen at Ottawa '05 Int'l Animation festival, Sept. 2005. JJ Villard is an alumni (2004) from the Character Animation Program. JJ Villard directs, edits and produces his own films. His film "Son of Satan" was awarded a Bunny at the Boston Underground Film Festival and screened at Cannes.

Rahul Das, MFA 2005 graduate from the Film Directing Program recently screened his film "India Spiceland" at the FILMI 6-2005, South Asian film festival Toronto, Canada, celebrating South Asian talent from around the world. Festival dates were Aug. 5-13, 2005. 'India Spiceland" was screened Aug. 7th to a packed house at York Quay Theatre.

Exciting news from Rahul Das, alum 2005, Film Directing Program:
'India Spiceland' (Producer/Director: Rahul Das) has been selected for screening in Seattle's 2nd Independent South Asian Film Festival. The main festival screenings dates are September 14 -18th.
Festival website: http://isaff.tasveer.org
India Spiceland website: http://www.rahuldasfilms.com

Elizabeth "Beth" Bird has won the Best Documentary award and accompanying
$50,000. cash prize, awarded by Target, for her film "EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN
OF SAND" at the LA Film Festival.

The citation written by the jurors read:
This year's Target Documentary Award winner is a return to unvarnished,
passionate documentary filmmaking. A testimony to the importance of access
and dedication, both of which culminate in an engrossing look at issues of
corporate power and international politics as they bear down on the lives
of ordinary citizens. With a deceptive simplicity, this film captures the
courage and resilience of those who rise up to fight the power.

Beth Bird is an alum, MFA 12/03, Integrated Media Program, School of
Film/Video.

Eric Darnell, alum, MFA, Experimental Animation program along with DreamWorks premiered Madagascar, a computer animated comedy feature. The animated feature opened strong over the memorial weekend ($61 million US box office). Madagascar was written by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Mark Burton, and Billy Frolich.

Eric Lahey, alum, BFA 2002, Program in Film and Video, World Premiere, Los Angeles Film Festival, June 16-26, 2005, Documentary Competition category: screening dates: Monday, June 20th, 7:30pm and Friday, June 24th, 5:00pm in the DGA Theatre 2
The Century Plaza, 79 min., Color, 2004, Directed by Eric Lahey
First-time feature filmmaker Eric Lahey's stirring portrait of life inside a Portland single room occupancy hotel is as visually mesmerizing as it is emotionally riveting. Tenderly documenting the shattered and fascinating souls that occupy the Century Plaza, Lahey's camera, like a mute, watchful ghost, moves from room to room, life to life, always trailing the films silent narrator, a large orange cat named Rico. While the Plaza's occupants range from an elderly psychotic to a reflective prostitute to a recent immigrant, they all share in the struggle against a rising tide of poverty that is the dark underbelly of the American experience.

Reginald Spangler, alum, Film Directing Program worked as an editor for the new "reality" show I Married A Princess which premiered Monday, April 18th on Lifetime.

Thor Freudenthal, alumnus, Character Animation program ('97) was selected to screen his animated short Motel, about a traveler who checks into a mysterious motel. Has he found a roadside oasis? at the Sundance film festival, Jan. 2005. Thor Freudenthal was born in Berlin,Germany. His award-winning short films have been shown at festivals worldwide. Freudenthal now lives and works as a commercial director both in America and Europe. His clients include Nike, Reebok, Burger King, and Florida Natural. Recently he was second-unit director on Disney's The Haunted Mansion.

Aurora Guerrero, DTVC, (Film Directing program) alumnus was selected to screen her film Pura Lengua (All Tongue) A young urban Xicana searches for ways to heal following cold deceptions of the heart.— in the dramatic shorts category at Sundance film festival, Jan. 2005.

Travis Wilkerson, Program in Film and Video alum (2001) was selected to screen his film (Director & Screenwriter) Who killed Cock Robin? in the dramatic competition, Sundance film festival, Jan. 2005. A screening will be scheduled to be held at the RedCat theater in April, 2005.

Eliam Kraiem, Calarts alum, premiered his first feature String Theory under Motek Films at the Santa Fe film festival, Dec. 1, 2004.

Markus Engel, alumnus '98, Film Directing Program announced he was part of a 36 hour film fest last weekend (where you have to complete a film in 36 hours). 11/06/04 was the screening of the 60 or so film and the awards. Award for "best ending" went to the famous underground film maker Markus Engel. Markus acknowledges a special "Thank you" to Lou Florimonte for a much needed boost in self confidence.

Stephen Hillenburg, alumnus, Experimental Animation, MFA '92 will premiere "The SpongeBob SquarePants, Movie" in theaters Friday, November 19, 2004. Stephen, the creator of SpongeBob, wrote and co-directed the movie. (PG, 90mins.)

Brad Bird, alumnus, Character Animation Program will premiere his animated, family adventure "The Incredibles" in theaters Friday, November 5, 2004. Brad wrote and directed the animated feature film. (PG, 115mins.)

Robert Fenz, Program in Film and Video alumnus is currently living in NYC and teaching film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Solo Screenings include:
"Filmmakers of the Present", 57th Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland (august)
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA (September)

Festival and Group Screenings:
"Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City", Argos Festival, Brussels, Belgium (October)
48th London International Film Festival, England (October)
"Cine y Casi Cine", Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (November)
"Vertical Air", 45th Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy (November)

Kerry Conran, alumnus 1988, Program in Film and Video, formally Live Action, wrote and directed "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", which premiered Sept. 17, 2004 First-time director Kerry Conran was given a $40 million by Paramount to make the action movie. The cast included Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Angelina Jolie, and many more.

David Gerhard, alumnus, Character Animation, has been selected to screen his animated short Lucky Penny on TV. Lucky Penney will be appearing in the premiere episode of the Nicktoons Film Festival, airing on Nicktoons Sunday, October 24th at 10:00pm (ET) / 7:00pm (PT). Encore presentations include: Mon., 25th at 1:00am (ET) and 10:00pm (ET) also, Tues., Oct. 26th at 1:00am (ET)

Lucky Penny is a short, traditionally (2D) animated, student film. The story takes place in a quiet neighborhood and centers on Lester (seen left) who is reaching boiling point. Lester has had it with the lack of 'common decency" displayed by his neighbors and to his wife, Lucy's dismay, he confronts one of them.

The Film was created at CalArts. Directed by David Gerhard. 4 min 30 sec in length.
Voice Talent: Frank Terry, Brooke Keesling, Dave LebowSound Scored by Kasandra Woodring and John Hawk.

Beth Bird, alumni, IM/FV will be screening her documentary, Everyone Their Grain of Sand, in the Viennale (the Vienna International Film Festival) on Monday, October 18th at 3:30 and Wednesday, October 20th at 6:00 PM. In addition to the screenings, the festival has also invited her to speak at a roundtable on globalization, on Saturday, October 16th, she has expressed her excitement about this invite.

InSITE (an important San Diego/Tijuana based arts organization) will be hosting a screening of Everyone Their Grain of Sand at the Tijuana Cultural Center (which is a major Tijuana venue) on November 20th. In conjunction with the screening they will hold a panel discussion with several well known scholars from the region on globalization and urban development in Tijuana, which she will be moderating.

Additionally, Everyone Their Grain of Sand will be part of the Los Angeles Freewaves Festival which takes place in November. This year the festival is titled "How Can You Resist" and the section of the festival she will be participating in is on November 20th, entitled "Globalize This!" The evening will feature excerpts of various works about current economic and social issues, then a Q&A with the filmmakers. That section will take place at SAJE - Strategic Actiions for a Just Economy.

Beth just received a grant from the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media to help fund distribution of the documentary.

David Fenster's Trona has been selected as part of the 2004 VIENNALE, the Vienna International Film Festival. The festival takes place from Ocober 15th through the 27th.

For more information on Trona, visit the official site.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Elie Kriam, the only undergraduate student to graduate from the former DTVC program will have his play “16 Wounded” open on Broadway April 15, 2004. Judd Hirsch will play the lead. "16 Wounded" was written and performed at CalArts directed by Asitha Amersekere. Elie has received several awards for the play and was invited to the Playwright's workshop at Sundance. Additionally, Elie has now completed his first feature film of which he wrote and directed.

Sharon Ferranti, Film Directing Program alumni '00, has finished her feature film and it will be premiering this month in Miami and has signed a contract for distribution with Wolfe Video. At this time, Sharon resides in Houston, Texas where she teaches a documentary class for HBO and working for Writers in the Schools.

Ah-Young Jung and Seungwon Choi, alumni, have been invited to screen their film “Outside” at the Brooklyn International Film Festival June 4-13, 2004.

Erika Vogt, Program and Film and Video alumni has screened her film Simple Lessons in Common Things at the Viennale Film Festival, Vienna October 2003, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Montreal November 2003, and Colgate University , Hamilton, New York November 2003.

Robert Fenz, Program in Film and Video alumni has been awarded a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship. Also, Festival Prizes for his film: "Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City"
"Best Cinematography" 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
"Best Film" 10th Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario
Jurors Choice (Best Film) 23rd Black Maria Film Festival
"Best Film" Cinematexas 8, Austin Texas

Solo Screenings of his film "Meditations on Revolution, Parts, 1-5:
Cinematheque Francais, Paris, France (May 14,2004)
Cinema Project, Portland, Oregaon, (May 4,5)
First Person Cinema, Boulder, CO (April 19)
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY (April 15)

Festival Screenings for his film "Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City":
November 2003- April 2004-
1) 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival
2) 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
3) 10th Media City Film Festival
4) 23rd Black Maria Film Festival (Tour)
5) 33rd Rotterdam International Film Festival
6) 21st Torino International Film Festival

Travis Wilkerson's provocative film about Butte, Montana, "An Injury to One (2002)," grabbed the Big Sky Award, given to a documentary by a Montana filmmaker. Wilkerson is currently finishing up a new film about Butte.