October 22, 2009
Aloha students, friends and supporters of the Academy for Creative Media at
the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
ACM @ HIFF REMINDER: TOMORROW IS OUR DAY – AND NIGHT
Tomorrow (Friday) at the Regal Dole Canner Cinemas is ACM’s Day – and Night
– to shine.
* 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 as we line up for tomorrow night’s screenings at Dole.
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.
PIDGIN SCREENS SUNDAY
“Pidgin – The Voice of Hawai‘i,” the celebrated documentary by ACM
instructor Marlene Booth, screens Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Regal Dole
Cannery Cinemas. “Pidgin” profiles this working-class language from its rise
as plantation jargon to a source of island identity and pride.
HIFF FREE WORKSHOPS & SCREENINGS
* 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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