Tisch Special Programs

From The New York Times:

Tisch Alumni Antonio Campos, the writer and director of Afterschool, discusses the composition of a scene from his film.

Afterschool is currently in theaters and On Demand via IFC Films.

Tisch Alum Antonio Campos' Afterschool is set to open October 1st in Theaters and On-Demand via IFC Films. You can watch the trailer for this provocative film below. Go to IFC Films site for more information about Afterschool.

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's own Shijie Tan's film Er Ren (For Two) has been accepted to the 66th Venice Film Festival. Inspired by true events, Er Ren is a story about relationships and their illusions. A lonely widower lives in his sparse apartment, still longing for his deceased wife. Living secretly in his house, however, there is a woman, who takes part to this life “together” with him, taking care of the home when he’s not there. When the fragile reality of this life “together” threatens to become too real for either to take, both Man and Woman must react.

The film will screen on September 8th. Visit the Venice Film Festival website for more information about the screening and for tickets.

We caught up with Shijie recently and got his thoughts on Er Ren and his experience at Tisch Asia.

Describe your film Er Ren (For Two)?
The story is about a curious relationship between a man and a woman who lives, in secret, inside his cupboard. They share a life "together"; a fragile relationship held up by the implicit denial of each other, in different ways. One of the key aims of this film was to depict this fragility aesthetically.

Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, has announced that the Tisch School will hold its annual gala, This is Tisch!, on Monday, November 2 at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. This is Tisch! will honor Academy Award® winning producer Brian Grazer, two-time Academy Award® winning director Ron Howard, Academy Award® and Tony Award® winning actress and Tisch alumna Marcia Gay Harden, arts philanthropist Diana King, and Academy Award®, Emmy Award® and Peabody Award® winning Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films.

In addition to a fundraising event and gala dinner, This is Tisch! is a celebration of some of the nation’s most distinguished artists and philanthropists with students and alumni performing live at the Frederick P. Rose Hall. The star-studded performance will be produced by Ken Davenport and directed by Stafford Arima. Past Tisch galas have included performances from Tony Award® winning Broadway shows such as Spring Awakening and from some of the entertainment industry’s most celebrated talent such as Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, Wyclef Jean, Bill Cosby, Elaine Stritch, Raúl Esparza and Jesse L. Martin.

Scheduled award presenters will include the Chairman, CEO & President of Sony Corporation, Sir Howard Stringer, and award-winning director, Spike Lee, both members of the Tisch Dean’s Council, and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner.

“The 2009 gala will raise critical scholarship dollars which will be used to support those students who would not otherwise be able to afford an NYU Tisch education,” said Campbell. “In an ambitious effort to scout new talent as proactively as elite schools scout for members of their athletic teams, the Tisch School is committed to finding, enrolling and retaining the country’s most talented young people, regardless of their ability to pay.”

Honoree Marcia Gay Harden added, “I am very proud to be honored by Tisch on November 2. The education and training that I received there enabled me to find my voice as a young artist and gave me the skill and confidence that I needed to succeed in a very competitive field. What I am most proud of, though, is what Tisch is doing today to reach and enroll those students in this country, and even around the world, who have a great gift, but who are not able to afford or access the fantastic training that I received.”

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From The New York Times:

Those who didn’t catch the musical “Passing Strange” when it was both on and Off Broadway, will now have a chance to get a close-up look at the show. Spike Lee’s filmed version of the musical opens in theaters Aug. 21, and merges his talents with those of Stew, the star and co-writer of this semi-autobiographical story.

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Two NYU Alumni (Angela Robinson and Martha Coolidge) are featured this article on female directors from Variety:

It has been more than 35 years since Women in Film was formed, with the goal to help "women achieve their highest potential within the global entertainment, communication and media industries." In 1973, few females had attained the high-powered position of director in either film or television.

Cut to 2009, when ex-Directors Guild of America president Martha Coolidge (whose helming credits include "Valley Girl," "Rambling Rose" and "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge") comments about the number of female directors working in film and television: "It's terrible. The percentage is awful. We're talking ranging between 6% and 11% of the total, with 11 being the highest women have ever achieved."

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Award-winning director and Tisch School of the Arts alumnus Ang Lee will chair the international jury at the Venice International Film Festival this September. Lee will be responsible for awarding the Golden Lion and other official prizes.

Ang Lee, '84 and '01, is a two-time Golden Lion winner, in 2005 for "Brokeback Mountain" and in 2007 for "Lust, Caution." The 66th Annual Venice International Film Festival takes place September 2 - 12, 2009.