April 20, 2009
SPECIAL KUDOS ISSUE!
Lots of awards and honors have come to ACM students and faculty this
semester. Here’s a sampling:
TOMMY CHOCK’S “RAIN” SCREENS FROM ATHENS TO NASHVILLE
Congratulations to Tommy Takemoto-Chock, whose short RAIN (premiered at the
2008 Hawai‘I International Film Festival’s ACM Night) has been accepted for
screening in the Athens International Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian
Pacific Film Festival, the DisOrient festival in Oregon, the Big Island Film
Festival, and the ongoing Nashville Film Festival. Winning an award at the
Nashville Festival qualifies the filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy
Award.
KEVYN FONG AND “BEAUTY BRAWL” IN RAINBOW FESTIVAL
Kevyn Fong’s BEAUTY BRAWL has been accepted for the 20th Annual Honolulu
Rainbow Film Festival, which will run May 21-24 at the Doris Duke Theatre of
the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Support for the film came from ACM’s GLBT
Filmmaker’s Initiative Award, which provided production funding. The
festival is a presentation of the Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural
Foundation, and will feature special guest comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. For
information on the festival, go to <www.rainbowfilmfestival.org>
ANNE MISAWA TAKES PELE AWARD
Asst. Prof. Anne Misawa won the local Pele Award for Cinematography for her
work on the 2008 Hawai‘i International Film Festival trailer, which featured
Jason Scott Lee and Kelly Hu. She shot some of the footage while in Shanghai
on the SMART Exchange program. Prof. Misawa has also been invited to present
her work at Vassar as a guest filmmaker/professor, and to work with the
college’s Advanced Narrative Workshop.
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The ACM faculty selected Felicita Garrido and Benjamin Liou as the Spring 09
Student Achievement Award winners. They will receive $2,000 to help cover
their Fall 09 educational expenses.
STUDENT FILMS BOFFO AT BLUE MOON SOIREE
It was good times, good laughs, and even greater viewing last Friday night,
as ACM’s Blue Moon Soiree featured an exciting collection of student films.
The evenings are coordinated by Asst. Profs. George Wang and Linda Dorn of
the Student and Alumni Affairs Committee. Stay tuned to your ACM
E-Newsletters for the announcement of the next in the series of social
gatherings and film screenings.
GOOD WORK BY FACULTY, TOO
* Documentary Filmmaking Instructor Marlene Booth’s PIDGIN: THE VOICE OF
HAWAI’I will be screened on PBS, and at the 2009 Association for Asian
American Studies Annual Meeting. It’s premiere on campus was SRO and beyond,
with folks outside in the courtyard peering through the doors of the Art
Auditorium.
* Asst. Profs. George Wang and Anne Misawa are prominently featured in the
program of the Broadcast Education Association annual convention this week
in Las Vegas.
* Prof. Wimal Dissanayake lectured at a workshop held in the University of
Central Arkansas on “Nature as a Topos in Chinese and Indian Films.”
* Asst. Prof. Konrad Ng’s essay ‘Hong Kong Cinema and Chineseness: The
Palimpsestic Male
Bodies of Wong Kar-Wai,' was published as a chapter in Santiago
Fouz-Hernández (ed.)'s “Mysterious Skin: The Male Body in Contemporary
Spanish Cinema.”
YOU CAN BE A WINNER, TOO: $1,500 TO PRODUCE YOUR FILM
ACM will award two $1,500 awards to students to produce their winning
screenplays in our annual Grace Abernethy Screenwriting Competition. You’ve
got until May 4 to submit an original screenplay written in 2008-2009.
Include a half-page synopsis and preliminary budget showing how you would
use the award to cover anticipated production costs. Winners will receive
$1,500 to produce your film as an ACM 499 project in Fall 09. For more
information, contact Asst. Prof. Joel Moffett at 956-3353 or
<moffett@hawaii.edu>. The competition is made possible by the Grace
Abernethy Fund for Creative Writing through the Hawai‘i Community
Foundation.
LOST INTERNSHIPS FOR FALL 09
ACM has arranged with the producers of LOST for a new internship during the
Fall ’09 semester on the hit ABC series. Academic credit is available
(ACM495) for those able to commit to 150 working hours over the course of
the semester (approximately 10 hours a week, preferably one full day a
week). The ten selected interns will experience work in five departments on
a rotating basis: Production Office, Art Department, Locations, Wardrobe and
the Assistant Directors Department.
Interested? Contact Assistant Professor Joel Moffett at
<moffett@hawaii.edu>, who will coordinate the project. Majors and
intended majors are, as always, given priority (another in the very long
list of good reasons to major or double major in ACM!)
TUESDAY: HITCHCOCK & SPECIAL EFFECTS
ACM joins the English Department in co-sponsoring a colloquium on the films
of Alfred Hitchcock with writer and critic Murray Pomerance tomorrow (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. Here’s a chance to do what we come to university for –
broaden our intellectual horizons beyond the classroom and textbook. And
there are refreshments, too!
THURSDAY: SHREKOLOGY: THE HISTORY OF AN OGRE
Our good friends in the Kapiolani Community College New Arts Program present
Tom Hester, lead character designer for all three SHREK films on Thursday
(April 23), 7-9 pm at KCC’s OHIA building, Room 118. Hester has designed and
sculpted in the film industry for more than 25 years. His credits also
include AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and HARRY AND THE HENDERSON’S. It’s
free and open to the public. So go, already, you animation and efx students!
SATURDAY: A DAY OF DOCUMENTARIES
The Multicultural City is the theme of a daylong celebration of
documentaries Saturday (April 24) from 9-5 pm at the Korean Studies Center
Auditorium. Among the many international and intercultural docs is BLUE TARP
CITY by ACM alum Henry Mochida, which will be included in the 9:30-11:30 am
screenings, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
SUMMER FUN: PACIFIC NEW MEDIA FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS
ACM alums Mark Wolf and Henry Mochida lead a weekend PreProPost HD Film
Production Workshop May 16-17, “designed to jump-start you into the entire
workflow of HD technology from pre-production through post-production.” Find
out about it at <www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm>, along with other summer
workshops:
* DVD Studio Pro, May 1-3
* Apple Certification Exam, May 5, or August 6
* Developing and Writing Your First Screenplay, May30-July 18
* Video Editing and OSX Basics, June 4
* Final Cut Pro 6, Part 1, June 9-30
* Final Cut Pro 6, Part 2, July 2-16
* What Can I Say – A Dialogue Workshop, July 15
* Elements of Story Structure, July 18-19
* Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Studio, July 31-August 2
* The Art, Science and Magic of Editing Moving Images, August 29-30
* Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro 6, September 4-6
STUDENT VIDEO AND FILM ASSN SEEKS GENERAL MANAGER
The UHM Student Video and Film Association (SVFA) is looking for a general
manager to put some spark in the organization. Who better than an ACM
student? Application deadline is Friday (April 24). Contact Jay Hartwell
<hartwell@hawaii.edu> if you’re interested.
HAWAI‘I BROADCASTERS’ SCHOLARSHIP
If a career in the broadcast industry is in your sights and you’d like a
year’s worth of tuition paid, apply for the Hawai‘i Association of
Broadcasters 2009 scholarship. All the info you need is at
<www.hawaiibroadcasters.com/scholar.html>. You’ve got until April 30 to get
that application in.
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.
* Palm Springs International ShortFest, June 23-29 <www.psfilmfest.org>
Deadline April 24
* Maui Film Festival <www.mauifilmfestival.com>. Deadline May 1.
* Just for Laughs Film Festival (Montreal, July 16-26, 2009). Deadline May
1. <www.hahaha.com/film/en>
* Moondance Festival, “The American Cannes” <www.moondancefilmfestival.com>.
Deadline May 15.
* Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival, Sept. 17-27 <www.wcff.us>.
Deadline May 15.
* Cornwall (UK) Film Festival’s “Another Country International Short Film
Award.” Nice prize for best short film “made in towns, villages and rural
communities across the world.” Festival is Nov. 12-15 in Falmouth (UK)
<www.cornwallfilmfestival.com>. Deadline June 30.
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. Talk to Eric about becoming a member, too.
WORTH CHECKING OUT
* “The Movie Hour” podcast – live, entertaining talk about the movies.
Produced by Texas A&M University. Go to <www.themoviehour.com>.
* Online interviews with TV greats, provided by the Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences Foundation Archive of American Television. Go to
<www.emmytvlegends.blogspot.com>.
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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