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Basil Mironer, Tisch School of the Arts Asia M.F.A. Film '10, has won the Sonje Award at the 14th Pusan International Film Festival for his film Rare Fish. The award is given to the best Korean and Asian short films in Wide Angle section, to assist in producing another masterpiece by providing KRW 10,000,000 (approximately USD 8,580) to the winning director.

Congratulations Basil!

You can read more about other awards this film has won here, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film here.

Tisch Asia's Kenny Gee's 'Meat at Block 320' won the Voice Award at 5th Signapore Short Film Festival. 'Meat at Block 320' is "a post-apocalyptic vampire-zombie love story".

Congratulations Kenny!

STREAMING MUSEUM
Korean moving image 1930s-2009 curated by
Korean Film Archive
Nam June Paik Art Center
Art Center Nabi

The flat screen display located on the 4th floor at Tisch Asia is part of a collaboration between the Animation and Digital Arts MFA Program and the Streaming Museum, a new hybrid museum presenting exhibitions in cyberspace and public space on seven continents. The exhibitions are presented on dedicated screens in public spaces (35 and growing), as well as several websites. Animations, installations and other digital projects created by our students will be featured on the display.

The creator and curator of the Streaming Museum is Nina Colosi. She also serves as curator for the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. Nina curates visual and performing arts exhibitions with work by leading and emerging artists and also showcases outstanding educational programs and students.

More information can be found at http://www.streamingmuseum.org/.

The Masters of Fine Arts in PRODUCING is exclusively offered at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia beginning IN SEPTEMBER 2010. This two-year specialized program is designed to provide graduate students with a framework for understanding the dynamics of producing as an art form and business profession in the entertainment and media industries, including animation, film, music and theatre.

Click here to sign up for more information on this new program.

Date: 2nd October 2009, Friday
Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Venue: Black Box Theatre, Level 2

Jean-Charles's Bio:

Jean-Charles Gaudechon is a Producer for Electronic Arts (EA) in Asia. He is in charge of leading the vision and development of major EA game titles and is currently based in the Singapore EA studio. Jean-Charles worked in North America as a producer on leading franchises such as FIFA, NEED FOR SPEED and also on numerous EA IPs. With over 7 years experience as a producer in the interactive gaming industry, Jean-Charles has garnered a track record of creating first class video games.

Live Cinema, Improvisation and Media Design Futures

Date: Friday, 25 September, 2009
Time: 4:15 pm
Venue: Classroom 1, 4th floor

Morgan Barnard's Bio:

Morgan Barnard is a new media designer and lecturer currently living and working in Wellington New Zealand. Throughout the years Morgan has worked as a music video director, documentary filmmaker, video artist, and editor. His current projects range from interactive installations to live cinema as well as creating custom hardware and software for video performance.

Tan Shijie's A Bright, Bright Afternoon

Featured are:

Tan Shijie's A Bright, Bright Afternoon
Stephanie Bousley's Shot
Eugene Koh's Solidity

Visit the Video Showcase here

Winners of the 61st Emmy Awards, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles last night, had its share of New York University Tisch School of the Arts alumni. The winners are:

CREATIVE EMMY AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Music or Nonfiction Programming 2008 MTV Video Music Awards • MTV
Star Theodos Kahn '99/'02 (BFA/MFA, Design)

Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi-Camera Series
How I Met Your Mother • ShelterIsland • Not A Father's Day • CBS • 20th Century Fox Television
Stephan G. Olson '87 (MFA, Design), Production Designer

Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries Or Movie
Grey Gardens • HBO • Specialty Films and Locomotive in association with HBO Films
Kalina Ivanov '83/'89 (BFA/MFA, F&TV/Design), Production Designer

Outstanding Single‐Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Taking Chance • HBO • Motion Picture Corporation of American and Civil Dawn Pictures in association with HBO Films
Brian A. Kates '94 (BFA, F&TV), Editor

Outstanding Short Form Picture Editing
Stand Up To Cancer • ABC/CBS/NBC • Laura Ziskin Productions & Seligman Entertainment Inc.
Andy Grieve '00 (BFA, F&TV), Editor

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Generation Kill • The Cradle Of Civilization • HBO • Company Pictures and Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Films
Jennifer Ralston, MPSE '95 (BFA, F&TV), Supervising ADR Editor

Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations • Laos • Travel Channel • Zero Point Zero Production, Inc.
Todd Liebler '85 (BFA, F&TV), Camera

Outstanding Writing For Nonfiction Programming
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired • HBO • Milwood Pictures, Graceful Pictures, BBC, Antidote Films in association with HBO Documentary Films and ThinkFilm
Joe Bini '86 (BFA, F&TV), Writer

Outstanding Reality Program
Intervention • A&E • Produced by GRB Entertainment for A&E Network
Jeff Grogan '96 (BFA, DDW), Supervising Producer

PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
30 Rock • NBC • Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal
Media Studios
Alec Baldwin ’94 (BFA, Drama)
Jack Donaghy

Photo courtesy of The New York Times.

Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central • Central Productions, LLC
Steve Bodow ’95 (MPS, ITP)
Head Writer

David Javerbaum ’95 (MFA, MTW)
Writer

Elliott Kalan ’03 (BFA, DDW)
Writer

Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central • Central Productions, LLC
David Javerbaum ’95 (MFA, MTW)
Writer

Tisch Asia Board of Director Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell has been named a member of President Obama's Arts Committee.

From The New York Times' Art Beat

President Obama has announced three new members to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, the committee said on Wednesday. The three new appointees are George Stevens Jr., the founding chief executive of the American Film Institute and producer of the Kennedy Center Honors; Margo Lion, the theater producer whose Broadway credits include “Hairspray,” “Angels in America” and “Jelly’s Last Jam”; and Mary Schmidt Campbell, the chairwoman of the New York State Council on the Arts and dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Mr. Stevens and Ms. Lion will serve as co-chairs of the committee, which works with federal cultural agencies and in the private and public sectors to further the White House’s cultural objectives, and Ms. Campbell will serve as vice chairwoman. The appointments are effective immediately.

Read more about Dean Campbell

Kairos Capital, a hedge fund based in Singapore, supports philanthropic and charitable projects. Aaron Kim, Director of Kairos Capital, is willing to offer a lump sum of SGD 2000 as a reward for a team of 2 or 3 ANDA students who will create a short animation about how socially responsible financial projects can help those in need.

Production will take place during the fall with a final deadline in January 2010.

More about Kairos Capital:

http://www.kairos-capital.com/
http://www.totalalternatives.com/pdf/AIN092908.pdf

Aaron Kim's Bio can be found here.

Tisch Asia Cinematography faculty Bobby Bukoskwi’s work wins prize for Oren Moverman’s The Messenger.

Congratulations to Bobby and Oren!

From the AFP:

DEAUVILLE, France — The top prize at the 35th Deauville American Film Festival in France was Sunday awarded to "The Messenger", a movie directed by Oren Moverman about a soldier back from the Iraq war.

Judges gave the Grand Prize to the film which tells the tale of Sergeant Will Montgomery (played by Ben Foster), who is given a tough new job at home after coming back from the frontline.

On his return to the United States, the soldier is handed the task of breaking the news to families when their relatives are killed in combat.

The film revolves around the difficult relationship between Montgomery and the officer who is in charge of training him.

This year's festival in the Channel resort closed Sunday with the awards ceremony where the jury, chaired by "Amelie" director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, selected "The Messenger" from 11 feature-length films.

The festival aims to boost the fortunes of independent American cinema and most of the films shortlisted fell into this category.

"The Messenger", the first film directed by Moverman who was previously known as a screenwriter, also won the international critics' prize at Deauville.

The awards, which attract tens of thousands of film lovers each year, were this year attended by Hollywood stars Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford and Robin Wright Penn.

Date: 18th September 2009
Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Venue: Classroom 1

Presentation Summary:

Interactive 3D is gradually becoming a new communication medium with 3D lifelike experiences. After a short introduction of 3DVIA applications, Dassault Systemes, and a quick live demonstration, we will go through the most typical examples of applications that can be developed with these platforms and see how they are revolutionizing gaming, architecture, city planning, product design, education, and medicine.

Joseph de Bonnafos Bio:

After his graduation from The University of Tokyo with a Master of Science in Distributed Computing, Joseph de Bonnafos, joined the world leader 3D software company Dassault Systemes (www.3ds.com) in 2004 in Tokyo. From 2004 to 2006, his role was to provide pre-sales consulting on ENOVIA product line (data management systems) in Japan. In late 2006, he moved to Singapore and became in charge of developing the business of 3DVIA product line (related to life-like experience) over South Asia-Pacific region.

We look forward to meeting you there.

Tisch Asia Instructor Todd Solondz' latest film Life During Wartime won Best Screenplay at the 66t Venice International Film Festival.

Congratulations Todd!

Below is a full list of the winners:

Venezia 66
- Golden Lion for best film: Lebanon by Samuel MAOZ (Israel, France, Germany)
- Silver Lion for best director: Shirin NESHAT for the film Zanan Bedone Mardan (Women Without Men) (Germany, Austria, France)
- Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih AKIN (Germany)
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Colin FIRTH in the film A Single Man by Tom FORD (USA)
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Ksenia RAPPOPORT in the film La doppia ora by Giuseppe CAPOTONDI (Italy)
- “Marcello Mastroianni” Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Jasmine TRINCAin the film Il grande sogno by Michele PLACIDO (Italy)
- "Osella" for Best Technical Contribution: Sylvie OLIVÉ for the film Mr. Nobody by Jaco VAN DORMAEL (France)
- "Osella" for Best Screenplay: Todd SOLONDZ for the film Life During Wartime by Todd SOLONDZ (USA)


Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Prize to Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno (Philippines)
- Orizzonti Prize for Best documentary to 1428 by DU Haibin (China)
- Special Mention to Aadmi ki aurat aur anya kahaniya (The Man’s Woman and Other Stories) by Amit Dutta (India)


Controcampo Italiano
Controcampo Italiano Prize to: Cosmonauta by Susanna NICCHIARELLI (Italy)
Kodak will offer to the awarded director 40,000 euros in negative film stock - 35 or 16mm, chosen by the winner - to shoot a new feature film.
- Special Mention: Negli occhi by Daniele ANZELLOTTI and Francesco DEL GROSSO (Italy)

Corto Cortissimo (Prizes awarded on 10th September 2009)
- Corto Cortissimo Lion for Best Short Film to Eersgeborene (First Born) by Etienne Kallos (South Africa, USA)
- Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009 to Sinner by Meni Philip (Israel)
- Special Mention to Felicità by Salomé Aleksi (Georgia)


“Luigi De Laurentiis” Award for a Debut Film
- Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film to Engkwentro by Pepe DIOKNO (Philippines) - ORIZZONTI
as well as a prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro, to be divided equally between director and producer

Persol 3-D Award for the Best 3-D Stereoscopic Film of the Year (Prize awarded on 11th September 2009)
- Persol 3-D Award: The Hole by Joe Dante (USA)

Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award
to Sylvester Stallone

A number of Southeast Asian films will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins today and runs until September 19th. Above is a still from Letter to Uncle Boonmee, an experimental work by world cinema favorite Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand.

These films include:

Adrift (Choi Voi) - Bui Thac Chuyen

At the End of Daybreak - Ho Yuhang

If I Knew What You Said - Dinig Sana Kita

Independencia - Raya Martin

Karaoke - Chris Chong Chan Fui

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Lumphini 2552 - Tomonari Nishikawa

Nymph (Nang Mai) - Pen-ek Ratanaruang

Ong Bak 2: The Beginning - Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai

Phantoms of Nabua - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Sawasdee Bangkok (Wisit Sasanatieng) - Aditya Assarat, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Pen-ek Ratanaruang