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September 1, 2006
WELCOME (BACK)
Aloha to all returning and new ACM students. The Academy continues to grow
and has an exciting program this year of new faculty, staff, courses and
special events.
LINDA DORN JOINS ANIMATION FACULTY
A special aloha to Assistant Professor Linda Dorn, who joins the ACM faculty
from the California Institute of Arts (CalArts), the premier animation
school in the U.S. Linda brings impressive credits from her work with
Disney, July Films and the TV series FUTURAMA. Linda is teaching the
advanced animation class this semester along with Kaveh Kardan, and is
designing additional curriculum to place ACM in the animation forefront.
GREGG AMBROSIUS – ACM PRODUCTION MANAGER
Gregg Ambrosius is a familiar face to ACM digital cinema students from his
previous role as Media Lab manager for the School of Communications. Gregg
is now the ACM Production Manager and will supervise all production
activity. Before his stellar work in carving the Media Lab out of unused
corners of the Hawai‘i Public TV Building, Gregg worked in the video
industry as a director of photography, editor, producer and director.
LEARN ALL ABOUT THE KOREAN FILM INDUSTRY
ACM is co-sponsoring a symposium on the Korean Film Industry Friday,
September 8, from 4-5:30 pm at the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium.
Johnathan Kim, producer of the award-winning SILMIDO and Chul Sin, producer
of the wildly popular MY SASSY GIRL will join Henry Kim, director of the
national Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and ACM’s Wimal Dissanayake to explore
the development and future of Korean filmmaking. A reception will follow, so
everyone will get a chance to mix and mingle.
The Korean filmmakers are here as mentors in an ACM-KOFIC Filmmakers
Development Workshop in which five fellows from Korea and the U.S. will
develop screenplays for future Korean films. Prof. Dissanayake and ACM
Director Chris Lee will help guide the workshop.
CAST AND CREW CALLS
Two ACM student films have a call for cast and crew:
Thomas Takemoto-Chock’s ICE PALACE, an ACM/Grace Abernathy award-winning
screenplay, will audition cast and crew Sept. 9 from 10 am – 2 pm on campus
in Crawford 105 (Call-back will be the same time on the next day).
College-age male and female leads, 2 female and 1 male supporting
characters. For information, contact tommychock@gmail.com or call
937-0787.
Jennifer Tokunaga also has a Sept. 9 audition date for her ACM film SHIN
(Truth). Roles for every age. For information on location and role
descriptions, contact jenapenamon@yahoo.com or call 371-2022.
GAME DESIGNER, DIGITAL ARTIST EDDO STERN
Electronic Media Artist and former game programmer Eddo Stern will be on
campus Sept. 12-15 for the Intersections Program, co-sponsored by ACM.
Stern, whose work powerfully comments on technology and media culture, will
give a public lecture at 7:30 pm Sept. 12 in the Art Auditorium. He’ll also
speak to the advanced animation class Sept. 15 at 1:30 in Crawford 212 –
open to any interested ACM student. Stern’s interests span new narrative and
documentary modes and cross-cultural/cross-media representations in film,
computer games and on the Internet. An exhibition of his works, DARK
MACHINIMA, will be held at KCC’s Koa Gallery from Sept. 13-Oct. 6.
The KCC New Media Arts 2006 Student Exhibition runs through Sept. 9 at the
Koa Gallery
HELP WANTED
A few producers out there are looking for a few good students to help in
various productions:
Tech-whiz Jay Fidell hopes to produce an “Inconvenient Truth” kind of
presentation for a series of doing business in Asia seminars during the
Spring Semester. Contact him at fidell@lava.net.
IslandPoP Productions wants to produce some commercials to support a CD
release by Island acts. Contact Charles Brown at
IslandPoPProductions@yahoo.com.
GIRLFeST
The GiRL FeST International Film Festival, at The Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Girl Fest Hawaii unites organizations and filmmakers around the world to
focus on, and to provide a platform for, films made by or for women. Among
the many great films this year are: "Beyond Beats and Rhymes," a documentary
by Byron Hurt about misogyny in Hip-Hop culture; "Barang" an eye-opening
account of a handful of college students in Cambodia; and "Awake Zion" which
draws the link between Orthodox Judaism and Rastafarianism. September 14th
to September 17th at the Doris Duke Theater.
COFFMAN FILM PREMIER
Hawai‘i documentary filmmaker Tom Coffman premiers his new film THE FIRST
BATTLE – The Battle for Equality in War-Time Hawai‘i Tuesday, Sept. 5 at the
Japanese Cultural Center (2454 S. Beretania). Doors open at 6. Film at 7.
Panel discussion and reception to follow. Purchase tickets at
www.hawaiitheatre.com or 528-0506.
BEYOND OIL: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FILM SERIES
This documentary film series runs each Wednesday at 7 pm in Spalding
Auditorium. For information, call 223-0130.
Sept. 6 – THE POWER OF THE SUN
Sept.13 – THE END OF SUBURBIA
Sept. 20 – WIND OVER WATER and VELOCITY: EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH
WIND POWER
CHECK THIS OUT
Best short films from the Sundance Film Festival, at the Wong A/V Center,
Sinclair Library. Call# DVD 2249.
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