Aloha Students, Faculty and Friends of the Academy for Creative Media. Meet a Master Director; More ACM Student Films in More Festivals (Have You Submitted Yours?); And money to make your film!

ACM MASTER CLASS WITH MASTER DIRECTOR RANDAL KLEISER

All ACM students are invited to join Randall Kleiser April 17, an internationally recognized film director since the release of his first feature, GREASE, the most successful movie musical ever made. Directing such landmark films as The BLUE LAGOON, WHITE FANG and IT'S MY PARTY, Kleiser has worked with some of the most esteemed actors of our day including John Travolta, Lynn Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sir John Gielgud. He also serves on the board of the DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA, where he is inaugurating a videoconferencing program to connect film school classes across the country with working directors in Hollywood.

Find out first hand the answers to such questions as How do you pursue a directing career within the studio system? As an independent director, how do you become a member of the DGA? What is the difference between directing for film and directing for television?

The session is open to all ACM students, Monday April 17 from 11-12:30 in the Campus Center Executive Dining Room. Coffee, juice, pastries and cookies for all! Let Lily Ching know if you're coming. Get yourself ready to talk to Randal Kleiser about his films by viewing his best from the Wong A/V Center in Sinclair Library: GREASE (Videotape 12497), IT'S MY PARTY (DVD 2317), and BLUE LAGOON (Videotape 11822).

Kleiser's Master Class follows the successful and noteworthy ACM session with director Zhang Yimou. The ACM Master Class Program is funded by the Jay Shidler Family Foundation.

ACM STUDENT FILMS KEEP WINNING AND WINNING ….

A round of applause for ACM student filmmakers Ty Sanga and Jason Ordenstein. Their films PLASTIC LEIS and WAITING TO SURFACE have been accepted for screening at the Big Island's startup film festival in Kona next month.

Don't stop clapping yet. Ty Sanga also placed his ACM short PASSIVE VOICE in the finals of the Olelo Youth Xchange competition, as did Brian Makanoa's I HAD A DREAM ONCE. The awards will be announced April 13.

WIN $1,000 TO PRODUCE YOUR FILM!

ACM's screenwriting competition will award three $1,000 scholarship/grants to students to produce their winning screenplays.

Submit your original screenplay written in 2005-2006 to the ACM reviewing committee by Monday, April 17, 2006 (limit: 2 entries per student). Also include a preliminary budget showing anticipated production costs that the scholarship/grant would cover. Submit all materials to the ACM office, Crawford 210 by 4 pm.

If it's selected as one of the top three, you'll be awarded $1,000 to produce it for the screen (turn it into a film or video game) during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Who's eligible: Students enrolled in ACM courses; You must be a continuing student - you'll be enrolling full-time for Fall 2007; You must have an overall grade point average of at least 2.75.

NOTE: Winning students must agree to provide the Academy for Creative Media a production journal outlining pre-production, shooting and post production schedules, as well as any rough, director's and/or final cuts of the production, which shall be copyrighted as an ACM Production.

For more information, contact Asst. Prof. Joel Moffett at 956-3353, or <moffett@hawaii.edu>.

SUNDANCE FEATURE FILM SUPPORT

Feeling ready for the big time? The Sundance Institute annually selects fifteen to twenty film projects for one or more areas of support through its Feature Film Program. You can find the application at <institute.sundance.org> for the January Screenwriters Lab, the June Directors Lab, and the June Screenwriters Lab. All projects will be considered for both the Screenwriters Labs and the Directors Lab. Deadline for applications is May 1. The Sundance Institute will provide airline travel, accommodations, and food for one writer/filmmaker per project.
 

ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT GEORGE?

CURIOUS GEORGE: Taking the Monkey from Page to Screen. Yarrow Cheney, Production Designer for Universal and Imagine Entertainment will discuss the process of adapting the illustrative design style of the beloved children's books to the big screen.   Wednesday, April 5, 6:30-8 pm, KCC Ohia 118.

1. HIFF SPRING FESTIVAL WINDS UP THIS WEEK

There are still some great films to see at the Hawai'i International Film Festival's Spring Showcase, which winds up Thursday. MOONLIGHT IN TOKYO runs tonight. THE PROPOSITION, an Australian Western, is tomorrow night. And there's a rush for seats for RULES OF DATING, the latest Korean romantic comedy, Thursday night.

2. AT THE HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS DORIS DUKE THEATRE

A Kung Fu Cinema Retrospective!! Ten feature films from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio.   Many of these films have been out of circulation and unseen on the big screen for over two decades.   This is a rare opportunity to enjoy some of the best and most popular martial arts films ever made:

Thursday: CLANS OF INTRIGUE (Chu Liuxiang). Dir: Chu Yuan, Hong Kong, 1977. 7 pm

Friday: DIRTY HO (Lan Tou Hou). Dir: Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong, 1979. 7:30 pm

Saturday: THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG. (Ma Yongzhen). Dir: Zhang Che, Bao Xueli, Hong Kong, 1972. 4 pm and 7:30 pm

Sunday: KING BOXER (Tianxia Diyi Quan). Dir: Chung Chang-wha, Hong Kong, 1972. 4 pm and 7:30 pm  

April 11: MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Zhangbei). Dir: Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong, 1980. 7:30 pm

April 12: THE JADE TIGER (Bai Yu Laohu). Dir: Chu Yuan, Hong Kong, 1977. 7:30 pm

April 13: THE MAGIC BLADE (Tianya Mingyue Dao). Dir: Chu Yuan, Hong Kong, 1976. 7:30 pm  

April 14: THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Xin Dubi Daowang). Dir: Zhang Che, Hong Kong, 1971. 7:30 pm

April 15: THE FIVE VENOMS (Wu Du). Dir: Zhang Che, Hong Kong, 1978. 4 pm and 7:30 pm

April 16: LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF CHINA (Shiba Ban Wuyi). Dir: Lau Kar-leung, 1982. 7:30 pm

3. ON CAMPUS

At Spaulding Auditorium Thursday at 7 pm and Sunday at 5 pm: THE TIGER'S APPRENTICE. Documentary director M. Trinh Nguyen traveled to a Mekong Delta village to learn more about her great-uncle¹s traditional medical practice first hand. Although her original intent was to investigate the effectiveness of the medical master¹s cures, she realizes during the process that she was unwittingly becoming his apprentice. With few other students to carry on his legacy, her great-uncle hopes that part of his knowledge might live on through her. Also showing: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: The HMONG SHAMAN IN AMERICA.

IN THE LIBRARY

BaadAssss Cinema: A bold look at 70's Blaxploitation Films. Take a trip back to the early 70s and the explosion of blaxploitation films, today one of American cinema's most beloved cult genres. The original guilty pleasure, these fun and energetic films had all the action, comedy, sex and groovy music you could want in two hours worth of entertainment. Check it out: DVD #3418 at the Sinclair Library Wong A/V Center.