October 19, 2009
Aloha students, friends and supporters of the Academy for Creative Media at
the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
ACM @ HIFF UPDATES
The Hawai‘i International Film Festival is in high gear. There are still
plenty of ACM-related events to celebrate and enjoy, several right here on
campus:
HIFF @ ACM TUESDAY – BEIJING FILM ACADEMY PRESENTATION
Zhong Dafeng, Dean of the International School of the famed Beijing Film
Academy, will give an illustrated lecture on “Changes in the Notion of
Family in Chinese Films,” Tuesday at 5 pm in the Moore Hall Tokioka Room
(Room 319). Professor Zhong is part of a BFA delegation visiting UHM. His
talk is presented by the UHM Confucius Institute, and cosponsored by ACM and
HIFF.
HIFF @ ACM WEDNESDAY – IAN CONRICH ON NEW ZEALAND FILMS
Co-sponsored with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, NETPAC juror Ian
Conrich will speak Wednesday at noon in Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room) on
“New Zealand Cinema: Best Kept Secret.” Dr. Conrich was the founding
director of the Centre for New Zealand Studies at the University of London.
NETPAC is the Network for the Promotion of Asian (and Pacific) Cinema.
HIFF @ ACM THURSDAY – ERIC BYLER AND 9500 LIBERTY
AHow do you break into the Indie film scene from Hawai‘i? Ask Eric Byler,
Moanalua grad who made the celebrated “Charlotte Sometimes,” “Americaneese,”
and “TRE,” films that explore Asian American and hapa culture. Eric will
speak to ACM students Thursday at 9 am in George 213. His latest film is a
documentary, “9500 Liberty,” examining the explosive issue of immigration
policy. It shows Tuesday at 6:30 pm, and Friday at 1:15 pm at HIFF, but we
have him Thursday to talk about his career.
STATE OF ALOHA SCREENS AGAIN THURSDAY
Accolades have already poured in for this important documentary – directed
by Asst. Prof. Anne Misawa and produced by ACM – that explores the historic
and contemporary impacts of Statehood on politics, society and culture in
Hawai‘i. Those who attended the premiere Sunday had a chance to hear a panel
packed with local legends discuss the continuing issues, and the importance
of the film to educate all of us in the state not only on what has gone
before us, but also on what we still have to face. It screens once more
Thursday at 2 pm at the Regal Dole Cannery Theatres.
FRIDAY IS ACM DAY – AND NIGHT
Spend Friday at Dole, and you’ll see the best of student films from Shanghai
University and ACM, including some we’ve made together:
* 1:30 pm – Five short films from our partners in the SMART (Student Media
Art) Exchange with Shanghai University. The filmmakers are here for the
festival, and also for an ACM/SMART Filmmaker’s Development Workshop, where
they will work with ACM students on the production of a film. The 1:30 pm
screening is free, but you still need a ticket – and they are going fast.
* 4:30 pm – Show your ticket stub from the Shanghai Shorts program and you
can join a reception for ACM and Shanghai filmmakers, ACM students, and HIFF
delegates and visiting filmmakers. Go to the 2nd floor of the Dole Theatres
to the HIFF Café, where you’ll find this congenial gathering.
* 7:45 pm – ACM NIGHT @ HIFF!!
ACM will premiere its first Hawaiian language and its first animation films:
“Live Tonight” by ‘Aina Paikai and “Lulu” by Brittany Itsuno. Five more ACM
short films are on the schedule, including one co-produced in China with
students from Shanghai University’s School of Film and Television. “Jinxian
Junction” is the second in a series of SMART Exchange productions,
co-directed by Kevyn Fong of ACM, and Pan Huijia of Shanghai University. “Li
Hing Mui, Lilikoi & Lychee,” by Lauren Cheape, was shot on Oahu with a mixed
ACM-Shanghai University crew, and is also part of the festival program.
Other films are “Watch Your Tongue” by Nasser Marghalani, “Dog & Cat” by
Robert Omura, and “Flowers, Chocolates and Candlelit Dinners” by Priscilla
Stafford, a winner of ACM’s Grace Abernethy Women’s Filmmaker Initiative
Award.
ACM LOGOWEAR IS BACK – GET YOUR HATS, T-SHIRTS AT HIFF
The ACM Student Association will be selling hats and T-shirts with the
distinctive ACM logo during ACM@HIFF at the Regal Dole Cannery Theatre.
Special prices for the festival are: $11 for white shirts; $12 for black
shirts; and $15 for black hats. After the festival, the prices go up $3 for
the shirts, and a buck for the hat. The funds from the sales will go toward
ACMSA in planning events, funding for a new actors conservatory, and helping
out with ACM projects.
The student association will have an organizational meeting Wednesday at
5:30 pm in Crawford 115. Come, join, and join in!
HIFF FREE WORKSHOPS & SCREENINGS
The LOST Master Classes are pau, but there are still some worthwhile
workshops and screenings offered to you for free:
* Student Showcase, a screening of student films from Hawai‘i and the
Mainland, Saturday at 10 am.
* State of Film Industry in Hawai‘i, Saturday at 12:30 pm. This one is in
the Dole Ballrooms, above the theatres.
* J.P. Chan presents: Don’t Quit Your Day Job, a Screening and Seminar,
Saturday at 1:30 pm. Learn Chan’s secrets to low/no budget filmmaking.
POST YOUR CASTING CALL NOTICES ON ACM WEBSITE
Your film casting call can be posted on the ACM website. Send your flyer as
a jpg file to ACM Production Manager Gregg Ambrosius <ambrosiu@hawaii.edu> a
week before the call date, and it will go up for all to see.
Remember, no flyers should be posted on the glass on the front and back
entrance doors to Crawford Hall. They’ll be taken down, pronto.
MAKE A GIFT TO ACM
ACM welcomes donations to support our programs, which support our students.
You can make a gift online at www.uhf.hawaii.edu/acm.
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