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Anne Misawa
Assistant Professor



Anne was raised mostly in Hawaii and received her BA in English at the University of Hawaii.  

She has studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California's Graduate Film and Television Program with an emphasis on directing and cinematography.

Her work as Director include a 35mm half-hour short, Waking Mele , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, 2000, and has garnered several awards, such as the Audience Award for Best Student Short (Austin Int. Film Festival), the Independent Vision Award (Lake Arrowhead Film Festival), and Finalist for the Student Academy Awards, was made as her thesis project at USC.   It has traveled to over 30 film festivals around the world and has been shown on the Sundance Channel as well as online at Atom Films. She has produced, written and directed other shorts, often times having done the cinematography as well.   Her first feature, Eden's Curve , (Stick Film Productions), shot in Virginia, in which she was hired as both the director and director of photography, has been screening at festivals internationally and has been awarded the Best Feature Award (North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003.)   She has just finished production in Hawaii on her second narrative feature and is currently in development with several other projects.

Anne has been Director of Photography on features, shorts, commercials, episodic tv, music videos, and industrials.   Her award winning work as cinematographer include: Salt , directed by Bradley-Rust Gray, (Caligari Award, Berlin Film Festival, 2003), Liv , directed by Edoardo Ponti, (Venice Int. Film Festival, 1998); Blues For Red , directed by Jennifer Haskin-O'Reggio, (DGA African-American Award, 1999), Letter to My Mother , directed by Debbi Reynolds, and Kings , directed by Niva Dorell, (both awarded Showtime's Black Filmmaker's Award and Hollywood Black Film Festival Awards, 1998, 1999).

She has also edited various projects including the feature Punks , directed by Patrik-Ian Polk, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, 2000, and awarded Best Independent Feature Film Award (Cleveland Int. Film Festival) and the John Cassavetes Award (Independent Spirit Awards, IFC, 2002).

Anne also has a previous Master's degree in Creative Writing from New York University and has studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute with its multidisciplinary approach to writing, with reknown writers and artists such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Stan Brakhage.

Anne is currently a member of the production faculty at the University of Hawaii, Academy of Creative Media.


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