Aloha Students, Faculty and Friends of the Academy for Creative Media. Exciting news in this Update – including a chance to get your hands on some real money!

WIN $1,000 TO PRODUCE YOUR FILM!

ACM announces an exciting screenwriting competition for our students:   We will award three $1,000 scholarship/grants to students to produce their winning screenplays.

Here's how it works: Submit your original screenplay written in 2005-2006 to the ACM reviewing committee by Monday, April 17, 2006. 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 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>.

MORE WINNING FILMS IN PACIFIKA

Two more ACM short films will join Kelsey Chock's STAND FOR JUSTICE at the Pacifika: New York Hawaiian Film Festival 2006: Kaliko Palmeira's STEVE MA'I'I and Ty Sanga's PLASTIC LEIS. The festival runs May 18-23 in New York City.

SPEAKING OF FESTIVALS . . .

Our good friends at the Hawai'i International Film Festival (which screened STEVE MA'I'I and PLASTIC LEIS, among 12 other student ACM films) is seeking interns or volunteers for its programming department. Duties include assisting the Film Coordinator, creating film and production company databases, transcribe celebrity interviews …. Hours are flexible and you get to watch a lot of films! If you're interested, email Asst. Prof. Anne Misawa <amisawa@hawaii.edu>.

OVER THERE: STUDY ABROAD POSSIBILITIES

1. Our good friends (we've got a lot of good friends) at Hawai'i Community College will conduct a Japan Animation Study Tour this summer – May 14-29 – in Tokyo and Osaka. You can earn three credits in Art 269c, too. If you're an anime lover or a serious animation student, this is a study & travel opportunity for you. Some of the sites include the Miyazaki Hayao Museum/Studio Ghibli (the creator of SPIRITED AWAY & HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE), Toei Animation Studios/Gallery, Suginami Animation Studio, and the Tezuka Osamu Museum (creator of Astro Boy). The program will also participate in Japanese animation studies in two well-known art schools that teach animation – Joshibi University and Osaka School of Art and Design and see their student animation works – and meet the creator of Pokemon.

Seating is limited to 16 students. Cost: approx. between *$2850 – 3150 including airfare, hotel and tuition. Sign up Deadline: March 25. For more information call Violet Murakami at: 974-7533 or email <violet@hawaii.edu>.

2. March 15 is the deadline – so move quickly if you're interested – to sign on with a University of Washington summer program in Chinese Cinema History and Criticism, hosted by the Beijing Film Academy. It's open to students world-wide (guess that includes us). Dates are July 3-30. Cost is $3,000. Information at <http://faculty.washington.edu/yomi/bfa-uw.html>.

SCREENINGS

1. At the Honolulu Academy of Arts Doris Duke Theatre - TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY. Nothing may make you laugh harder than this film about making a film about the notoriously un-filmable classic 18th Century comic novel “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” by Laurence Sterne.   Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom brings the novel to life with wit, zest and entertaining bizarreness. Friday through next Thursday at 7:30 pm. 1 pm screenings each day except Monday. 4 pm screenings Friday – Sunday.

2. On campus at Sinclair Auditorium Tonight at 7 and Sunday at 5 pm – TOUCH THE SOUND. Grammy-winning classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie is a consummate musician whose solo work is unrivalled. She also happens to be deaf. For Evelyn, sound is palpable and rhythm is the basis of everything. Without vibration, there is nothing. From silence to music, sound is felt through every sense in our bodies. Director Thomas Riedelsheimer maps a world of senses, of transcendent images and evocative sounds, following Evelyn and her remarkable story through California, New York, England and her native Scotland. With music by Glennie and Fred Frith.

IN THE LIBRARY

Here's a pair of goodies to impress your friends with your own dorm or apartment screening:

CHOP SOCKEY CINEMA HONG KONG, written and directed by Ian Taylor. Call# DVD 3344; and THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, a behind-the-scenes look a the horror movies you love (or are afraid to) hate. Call# DVD 3446. Check them out at the Wong A/V Center, Sinclair Library.