March 2, 2009
Aloha Students, Supporters and Friends of the Academy for Creative Media.
FOUR BIG EVENTS THIS WEEK!!I
1. Screening and Discussion of CHIEF, the highly acclaimed short film by
writer/director Brett Wagner. Thursday (3/5) at 7 pm in the UHM Art
Auditorium. Filmed on location on O‘ahu, Chief tells the story of a highly
ranked chieftain from Samoa who flees his village and winds up as a taxi
driver in Honolulu. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won
“Best Dramatic Short” at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
2. Learn How to Write a Business Plan to Pitch your Film. The Shidler
College of Business is offering a free 1-day workshop, “Entrepreneur’s
Bootcamp #2,” for those interested in learning how to write a business plan
and/or enter the UH Business Plan Competition. Two ACM students have won in
the past and started their own production company! The workshop will be
Saturday, (3/7) in BusAd A-102. Learn about marketing strategy, investor’s
perspectives, and making the business pitch. Register at
<www.uhbusinessplancompetition.com>
3. Free Workshop on Intellectual Property. Pacific New Media is allowing ACM
students to attend what’s normally a $50 workshop for FREE on Saturday,
March 7, covering Intellectual Property Issues for Content Creators. The
workshop will cover copyright, branding/trademark/domain names, right of
publicity, privacy, fair use, idea theft, and other legal issues that affect
filmmakers whether online or offline. Sayoko Blodgett-Ford and Sharon Webb,
two experts in IP law, will conduct. If you’d like to attend, please contact
Susan Horowitz <horowitz@hawaii.edu> at PNM for FREE registration.
4. Honolulu International Film Festival. Screenings of Indie features, docs,
shorts, experimental films Friday through Sunday at the Hilton Hawaiian
Village. Half-price admissions for ACM students. See
<www.honolulufilmfestival.com> for schedule and tickets.
TAIWAN FILM SERIES STARTS MARCH 14
ACM is co-sponsoring a special series of films from Taiwan, presented by the
Center for Chinese Studies. Free Screenings of Films that have played at
International Film Festivals!
* March 14, 2 pm, THE RHYTHM IN WULU VILLAGE, a documentary by Wang
Chung-Shung. Shidler A-201, followed by welcoming reception in the Shidler
Courtyard
* March 14, 3 pm, THREE TIMES, a drama by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Official
Selection at Cannes, featuring Shu Qi and Chang Chen. Shidler A-201.
* March 18, 4pm, CHOCOLATE RAP, a Taiwanese hip-hop movie by Chi Y. Lee, and
Official Selection at Tokyo International Film Festival, Crawford 105.
* April 3, 4 pm, LET IT BE, a documentary by Yen Lan-chuan & Juang Yi-tseng,
Grand Prize winner at the Taipei Film Festival, Crawford 105.
April 8, 4 pm, FISHING LUCK by Tseng Wen-Chen, a romantic drama and Official
Selection, Pusan International Film Festival, Crawford 105.
UPCOMING HITCHCOCK COLLOQUIUM
ACM will join with the English Department to co-sponsor a colloquium on the
films of Alfred Hitchcock with writer and critic Murray Pomerance on April
21 at 3pm in KUY 410. Pomerance is the editor of the “Techniques of the
Moving Image” series from Rutgers University Press. He’ll focus on the
special effects techniques used in the Mount Rushmore finale of Hitchcock’s
NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
FESTIVALS, CONTESTS, ETC.
REMINDER: ALL ACM films submitted for festivals and contests must first be
cleared by Production Manager Gregg Ambrosius. No exceptions. See him BEFORE
you send anything off.
* Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival <www.hgicf.org>. Deadline March 15.
* New Orleans Film Festival <www.neworleansfilmfest.com>. Deadline April 3.
* Maui Film Festival <www.mauifilmfestival.com>. Deadline May 1.
* Moondance Festival, “The American Cannes” <www.moondancefilmfestival.com>.
Deadline May 15.
* Just for Laughs Film Festival (Montreal, July 16-26, 2009). Deadline May
1. <www.hahaha.com/film/en>
SHOW OFF ACM PRIDE WITH T-SHIRTS, HATS
The newly formed ACM Student Association is selling spiffy ACM-logo t-shirts
and wicked cool hats Contact ACMSA head Erik Manke <acmsa1@gmail.com>.
T-shirts available in all sizes S-XL. White shirts are $11, black shirts are
$12. Those way cool black hats are $13. Proceeds will help support ACM
student programs.
NEW LIBRARY RESOURCE
Critical Studies students take note: The Library has announced a trial
access to an extensive database, the Film & Television Literature Index,
with full text retrieval. Go to the library main page
<http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu> and click on “E-Resources and Databases”
link. Or go directly to
<http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=51836>.
Two other databases of interest are the ARTstor – lots of images, graphics,
drawings, photographs, art, and architecture. Great for designers, as is the
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index.
ALSO WORTH CHECKING OUT
At Sinclair Library’s Wong A/V Center:
* Cinematographer Style. Produced and directed by Jon Fauer. Features
interviews with the greats Gordon Willis and Vittorio Storaro. DVD #7829
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.
REMINDER TO NEW MAJORS & INTENDED MAJORS: YOU ARE NOT A MAJOR UNTIL…
Please keep in mind that you must complete your Academic Proposal and have
it approved by both your ACM advisor and Interdisciplinary Studies Advisor
before you can be declared an ACM major. While some students have applied to
ACM and their application has been accepted, they have delayed taking the
next step of preparing the Academic Proposal with their ACM advisor, and
then having it approved by IS. Those students will have difficulty
registering for courses that are restricted to majors, as they won’t have
been officially declared, or recognized, as ACM majors. So get that advising
done pronto. For new applicants to the major – the same advice for you: You
are not a major until your Academic Proposal has been approved by both your
ACM and IS Advisors. Without it, no advanced courses will be open to you.
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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