Last year, we wrote about the 47th New York Film Festival (NYFF) and the number of CalArtians involved in the festival’s experimental film program, the 13th Annual Views from the…
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CalArts Animation Screened at Hiroshima Animation Festival
[nggallery id=85] The Hiroshima International Animation Festival, one of the most respected international animation festivals (along with Annecy, Ottawa and Zagreb festivals), took place earlier this month from Aug. 7-11….
Continue reading »Animator Danielle Ash’s Pickles for Nickels Featured on PBS and NPR Shows
Pickles for Nickels, a short film by experimental animator and recent CalArts grad Danielle Ash (Film/Video MFA 09), has been garnering national attention lately. Earlier this year it won the…
Continue reading »Get Out of the Car: A New Film by CalArts Faculty Thom Andersen
Program in Film & Video faculty and former program director Thom Andersen was in Switzerland last week, premiering his new film, Get Out of the Car (2010, 34 min., 16mm)…
Continue reading »CalArts Animator Wins Local Festival Awards
Recent Experimental Animation alumnus Beomsik Shimbe Shim (Film/Video MFA 09) and his film, The Wonder Hospital, have been racking up a slew of festival awards this summer. Among them, two…
Continue reading »2010 Princess Grace Awards Honor CalArtians
Congratulations! The Princess Grace Foundation which recognizes the talents of artists in theater, dance and film, just announced its awards for 2010, and students Andrew Wojtal (Dance BFA 11) and…
Continue reading »Seoul Cartoon Festival Screens Early Works of CalArtian Animators
With Toy Story 3 still high on the box office charts, two of the film’s creators, John Lasseter (Film/Video BFA 79) and Andrew Stanton (Film/Video BFA 87), along with 17…
Continue reading »CalArtians’ Works Featured at an Art Festival on an Organic Farm in Austria
An organic farm, Schlossergütl, in the rolling hills just outside Andorf, Austria, is the pastoral setting for Spiel Festival 2010–a wide-ranging array of traditional and experimental art, dance and music…
Continue reading »40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit
Akosua Adoma Owusu (Art, Film/Video MFA 2008) has taken her thesis film Me Broni Ba (my white baby) around the world–to date, it’s been screened at nearly 40 domestic and…
Continue reading »CalArtians Receive Fulbright Fellowships
Many students have the opportunity to study and perform abroad while attending CalArts. Two recent CalArts graduates, Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen (Film/Video MFA 10, Theater MFA 09) and Emily Mendelsohn (Theater MFA…
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