Phally Croy awarded Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship
MFA student Phally Chroy was one of just four students nationwide to receive a Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship. The new program is designed to extend the benefits of the traditional Fulbright to scholars conducting international research on the social power of music.
In September, Chroy will travel to Cambodia, where he will film a documentary about the resurgence of the music that was nearly eradicated during the years that the Khmer Rouge ruled the country.
For more information or to apply for an upcoming Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship, visit https://us.fulbrightonline.org/thinking_mtv.html.
MFA Student Tracy Pereira receives the Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship
Every year the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, in association with Ernst & Young LLP, awards two upper division undergrad or graduate students scholarships of $10,000 each to pursue a career in children's media that furthers the values and principles of Fred Rogers' work.
Tracy's project is based on a the concept of an interactive video blog initiated by various children from different countries across the world who would (ideally) be given video cameras and computers to record their lives / loves / hopes / dreams. Tracy is interested in studying communication between children on a global scale that would further goals of traditional and non-traditional literacy, expression, empowerment and interaction.
The Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship
Sarah Christman Awarded at Ann Arbor Film Festival
MFA alumna Sarah Christman's thesis film "Dear Bill Gates" was awarded the "Eileen Maitland Award" for most promising female filmmaker at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
It will also be screening during the month of April at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, and at the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, this poetic essay draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft.
Visiting Filmmaker Nora Jacobson
Nora Jacobson will show and discuss her new fiction film: "Nothing Like Dreaming"
Tuesday, April 3rd, 5:40pm
Rm 3, Annenberg Hall
Nora will also be answering questions about her other fiction film, "My Mother's Early Lovers", and her acclaimed documentary film "Delivered Vacant" Wednesday April 4th in Room 14 of Annenber at 9:30am.
Nora's work has been screened at numerous international film festivals including The New York Film Festival and Sundance. She's also the recipient of a Guggenheim award.
A Talk by John Hanhardt
Creating a Scene: shaping time/space
from D.W. Griffith & K. Anger to Kurosawa
Please join the FMA Independent Film & Video class on
Wednesday, March 28th, 12:45pm
Rm 101, Tuttleman
John Hanhardt is Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media
Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Previously, he was
Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum worldwide. Among the exhibitions he has curated are the major retrospective,“The Worlds of Nam June Paik” and “Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day.”
He was with the Whitney Museum of American Art for over 20
years as Curator of Film and Video. He has also collaborated on a variety of outside projects and publications with such institutions as the Bohen Foundation, The American Center in Paris, and the Fundacio Antoni Tapies. He is the editor of the book Video Culture: A Critical Investigation and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Electronic Arts Intermix.
FMA in the Philadelphia Film Festival
Three Film Media Arts MFA students will be featured in the Philadelphia Film Festival's shorts program, Stone Soup!
Sunday April 8, 7:00
www.phillyfests.com
Diorama — Ben Kalina
One of Philly's theatrical jewels, Madi DiStefano plays the hard-drinking, hard-rocking mother of a young girl, terrifickly portrayed by DiStefano's real-life daughter.
Farewell, Silk City — Alison Crouse
Oh, Silk City, we hardly knew ye. Share in the sweetness of the last few days of this landmark diner and club. This touching slice of life is dedicated to a place whose credo was “eat it and beat.”
Ring of Fire — Rini Keagy
An affecting animated film that recalls a family's past.
Submissions to NextFrame Now Accepted
The 2007-2008 NextFrame Call For Entries has officially
opened, and we encourage you to submit your work!
DEADLINES:
Earlybird Deadline: April 30th, 2007
Final Deadline: May 31, 2007
NextFrame is a unique exhibition opportunity for student
filmmakers who strive toward innovative approaches to film and
video. Unlike most festivals that organize a single screening
event, NextFrame tours around the world at dozens of screening
venues, exposing your work to new audiences.
NextFrame filmmakers receive prizes and product grants from
some of the blue chips in the film/media industry: Avid,
Kodak, Final Draft, Lowel, and more... Over $18,000 in prizes
and product grants are granted to NextFrame winners!
To submit your film or video, visit our website at www.temple.edu/nextframe.
Questions: contact us at nextfest@temple.edu.
Diamond Screen Film Festival 2007—Call for Entries
Early Deadline—March 16 for Summer/Fall 2006 work
Final Deadline—April 27 for Spring 2007 work
No entry fee! Cool prizes including Avid software, OWC
harddrives, cash prizes, transfer time at Modern Video, plus more!
Download and print the entry form. Drop your DVD and
attached entry form into the box outside of the Diamond Screen
office—Annenberg Hall, Rm. 14D.
Ashley Maynor hired as General Manager of The Lyric, a historic theater in Roanoke, VA
"Watching a story unfold in a darkened room surrounded by strangers and the ghosts of all the people who sat there during the past 75 years 'is a powerful experience,' said Maynor, the Lyric's new general manager."
Read The Roanoke Times article >
More about The Lyric from The Roanoke Times >
Cheraine Stanford's Color Conscious
MFA student Cheraine Stanford's Color Conscious will be shown at the Women of Color Film Festival at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA in March. This experimental short takes the images and emotions evoked by the colors of the Jamaican and American flags to question dual identities, stereotypes and civil liberty abuses faced by immigrants in the US.
Sonali Gulati's Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
Sonali Gulati's MFA thesis documentary Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night has received recognition in 14 international film festivals and is an officical selection for the Margaret Mead Traveling Festival as one of the cutting edge documentaries of 2005-2006. www.sonalifilm.com
Screening of Audition
MFA student Sam Holdren will screen his 20 minute film Audition — With all the signs in place, William Ashe travels to the big city to audition for a movie in this dark comedy where life may lead anywhere once you choose to see the signs. And even though murder, mayhem, and mistaken identity sidetrack him along the way, a sign's a sign... right?
Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Annenberg Hall, Room 3
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
ODYSSEY premiere/release party at MIX NYC
THE ODYSSEY, coming late summer 2006, is 4th in the POCKET MYTHS series and is a collaboration between Andrea Lawlor and Bernadine Mellis. It comprises a zine complete with stories, poetry, and art, and an accompanying film on DVD. The film consists of 24 continuous shorts by 24 groups of filmmakers (including Temple students Laska Jimsen, Jason Coyle and Mary McDermott) telling the complete story of THE ODYSSEY, Homer’s epic in 24 chapters.
When: November 12, 8 p.m.
Where: 3LD Art & Technology Center,
80 Greenwich Street, Theater #1, New York City
Admission: $12
More about the festival: www.mixnyc.org
More about THE ODYSSEY: www.pocketmyths.com, redbirdfilms.com
2006 DiamondScreen Film Festival
A celebration of the best work in film, video, and new media produced in the Department of Film and Media Arts.
Friday, May 12, 7pm - 10pm
Saturday, May 13, 7pm - 9pm
Screenings will be held in Temple's new cinema, The Reel, located in the Student Activities Center annex.
An Awards Ceremony will follow immediately after the screening on Saturday night. Our distinguished jurors for this year's festival are London-based documentarian Carol Gould (Long Night's Journey into Day), Michael McGahey (Sr. VP, Feature Film Development, Klasky Csupo, Inc.), Jay Grossman (VP, Sales and Acquisitions, MTI Home Video), and Chris Vecchio (Chairman of the Board, Nexus/Foundation for Today's Art).
DiamondScreen is a production of the School of Communications and Theatre/Department of Film and Media Arts. The festival is presented by Modern Video Productions and sponsored by Focal Press.
Senior Projects Screenings
Come one, come all to the 2005-2006 Senior Projects screenings!
Where: Tuttleman, Room 101
When: Tuesday, May 2nd, from 1PM to 6PM, and
Wednesday, May 3rd,
from 1PM to 8PM.
You've heard the rumors and they're all true — this year's program will knock your socks off (so, bring an extra pair of socks)!
Brian McDermott's M.F.A. thesis film Cigarettes and Fresh Air (view clip) had its World Premiere at the 2006 Sarasota Film Festival.
Brother Outsider: The Story of Bayard Rustin
a Film Screening
with Filmmaker Bennett Singer
April 10, 3:00 pm, Annenberg Hall Room 3
13th & Diamond Streets
Free & Open to the Public
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Bennet Singer tells the story of the closeted gay black man who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin was an essential ally in maintaining the non-violence of the U.S. civil rights movement. Singer's film brings the overlooked Rustin into the mainstream of this vital historical movement.
Temple presents: Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Nina Rosenblum
Please join the Film and Media Arts Department for a film presentation by Nina Rosenblum.
Friday, April 7, 12:45-2:30pm, Annenberg Hall Room 3
Nina Rosenblum, documentary producer/director is
co-founder of Daedalus Productions, Inc., NYC. Titles include: Emmy Award winner:
THE UNTOLD WEST: THE BLACK WEST, TBS; Academy Award nominated LIBERATORS:
FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II; HBO "America Undercover" series:
LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKERS ISLAND
Eli Hollander to Visit Temple
Friday, April 7, 4:30 pm, Annenberg Hall Room 201
Eli Hollander, independent filmmaker, free-lance industry editor and full professor of film and cinema studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, will be coming to Temple on April 7 to present his feature-length 1982 experimental film OUT, from the novel by pop avant-garde writer Ronald Sukenick's modernist novel. Hollander funded the film himself and distributed it himself. It is misunderstood, impossible-to-describe road movie which follows a group of urban New York guerrillas who receive their orders from dishing letters out of alphabet soup. The newest "message" tells them to make their way across the country to Los Angeles to "save the old man" who is "diing". While en route, they discover a rapidly changing America and American heartland, experiment with marriage and drugs, and listen to stories from an elderly Native-American tribesman (who knows the meaning of life but would rather talk about his new boots). This is the last Filmmaker-in-Person event for Film Fridays this term. The screening is in Room 201, and not the usual Room 3.
April Film Friday Screenings
Fridays, Annenberg Room 3, 4:30 pm
Free & Open to the Public
April 7: Eli Hollander presents his film OUT (1982) (Room 201)
April 14: John Funk presents ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938)
April 21: John Gross presents Lars Von Trier's THE
ELEMENT OF CRIME (1984)
Industry Filmmakers to Visit Temple. Please join the Film and Media Arts Department for a panel discussion on career opportunities in independent filmmaking.
Wednesday, March 29, 6-9pm
Room 3 Annenberg Hall
Panelists include:
Linda Moran, Bella Donna Productions, Producer of indie hit TransAmerica, Academy Award nominated film including Best Actress, Felicity Huffman
Fran McElroy, Shirley Road Productions
ITVS funded, award winning producer/director
Co-producer/Director Mirror Dance
Sharon Mullally, freelance PBS editor
Projects include Daring to Resist
This presentation is free and open to the public
Helmed by Termite TV co-founder and Temple Professor Michael Kuetemeyer, groups of graduate and undergraduate students dreamed up, planned, shot, edited and will now screen 30 minute shows that will air on Drexel University Television. Each show features several segments based on a common theme, and were produced in just weeks by student/artists from a broad range of media backgrounds. Check them on local Philadelphia television:
DUTV, Comcast Channel 54 / Urban Cable
Works Channel 62
Mondays 8 pm & Thursdays 10 pm
March 13 and 16 - System Indecipherable
March 20 and 23 - Immortality
March 27 and 30 - Art in Philly
April 3 and 6 - Humanity
April 10 and 13 - Laughter
April 17 and 20 - the No Show
More shows coming soon!
On Friday, November 18 at 4:30 in Annenberg Room 3, Israeli filmmaker Dan Katzir will present his 1997 film Yatzati L'Hapes Ahavah - Techef Ashuv (Out for Love... Be Back Shortly), a documentary about about a former Israeli officer & his enlisted girlfriend in a country torn by the Oslo agreements and the violent protest against them. The author’s quest for love runs along with the quest for peace, culminating with the murder of P.M. Yitzchak Rabin. Dan Kazir's grandfather, Aharon Katzir, was killed by the notorious Japanese terrorist Kozo Akomoto at Ben Gurion Airport in 1972. Aharon's brother, Efraim, became the fifth president of Israel from 1973-1978.
Organized by Jon Poritsky and Eran Preis, this screening is sponsored by Hillel in Philadelphia, Temple University's Jewish Studies Department, Temple University Film and Media Arts Department and the Philadelphia Israeli Consulate.
WYBE recently announced their choices for the Philadelphia Stories 5 in the acquisition category, and several Temple films have been chosen. Ned Hylton's Portrait of a Dude, Mark Scalese's Implosion, Shelley Barry's Whole: A Trinity of Being, Sonali Gulati's Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, Leonard Guercio's Tiramisu, and Amy Olk's Consolation were among the winners. Congratulations to everyone who worked on these films.
Karen Dee Carpenter has been awarded a 2005 Prince Grace Award for her upcoming MFA thesis film. Congratulations Karen!
UPDATE: Read more about Karen's thesis project, Sarah and Dee, in the Temple Times.