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CLASS OF 2009 2009 ALUMNI ACCEPTED AT PISAF 2009 - NOVEMBER The 11th Puchon International Student Animation Festival in South Korea has accepted five films by BFA Computer Art 2009 Alumni: "Fishy Tale" by Sharlene Lin, "Believe" by Laura Lee, "Abyssus" by Christian Haniszewski and Rogelio Olguin, "The Specials" by Angelo Collazo, and "Don't Be Late" by Chris Piron. This year the festival has decided to hold it's screenings online, so please visit the following website to see these films and their competition from around the world: http://pisaf.or.kr/2009/e/index.asp 2009/10 SENIOR & 2006 ALUM COLLABORATION ACCEPTED AT NYTVF - Dillon McCarthy, one of our current Seniors, and Chad Von Nau, a 2006 alum, have been accepted at this year's New York Television Festival. Their short film "Lost Cities" will screen as part of the Independent Pilots Competition during Comedy Block 6 on Thursday, September 24th at 6:15pm and Friday, September 25th at 5:00pm. "Lost Citites is an adventure tourism series that explores lesser-known cities in the U.S. It's also completely made up..." To view a trailer for this film, follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe30lRs4OGY. For more information please visit the festival website where passes are available for free! http://www.nytvf.com/tixSYS/2009/progguide/Creator/VV 2009 ALUM HAS FESTIVAL SCREENING SUCCESS ACROSS THE COUNTRY Sean Hannon, 2009 alum and creator of the film "Deja Vu" has had great success at festivals all over the U.S. since graduating this past May. His film has been accepted by the following festivals: Animazing Spotlight, New Jersey Film Festival, California International Film Festival, and the Louisville International Film Festival. To learn more about Sean and his film's festival screenings, visit his website http://dejavu-thethesis.blogspot.com/. 2009 ALUM ACCEPTED AT SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 - DECEMBER 17-19 IN YOKOHAMA, JAPAN At the 2nd ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in Asia, "Oneironaut" by Erica Kobren will screen for the world's leading experts on computer graphics and interactive techniques in the city of Yokohama, Japan. This international festival of art, animation, and tomorrow's technologies is associated with the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival held in New Orleans this past August where two other alumni were accepted as well. For more information on this event visit the SIGGRAPH Asia website http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/. 2009 ALUMNI ACCEPTED AT THIS YEAR'S FLIP ANIMATION FESTIVAL- NOVEMBER 5 - 7, 2009 Two films by 2009 Alumni will be screening at this year's Flip Animation Festival: "Magic Theatre" by Jordan Harvey, and "We Are All Here" by Yong Hwa Choi. "Flip is an eclectic mix of all things animation... from industry led panels to feature film screenings and from international showcases and retrospectives of short films to spotlights on animation studios." Now in it's sixth year, Flip is organized and hosted by Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK. For more information about this festival, please visit their website http://flipfestival.co.uk/about/. 2009 ALUMNI ACCEPTED AT THIS YEAR'S MetroCAF - OCTOBER 1 @ FIT'S HAFT AUDITORIUM At this year's MetroCAF, the following four films will screen on the night of October 1st: "Abyssus" by Christian Haniszewski and Rogelio Olguin, "Magic Theatre" by Jordan Harvey, "Le Cou Cou" by Zed Bennett, and "The Wizard of Odds" by Sheri Wong. A total of twenty-six films were accepted this year from schools in the New York City metro area, including films from SVA's own MFA Computer Art Department. This year's jury consisted of Michelle Barfoot (Mercer County Community College), Lucien Harriot (Mechanism Digital), Nadia Husain (Big Star), Susie Jang (UVPhactory) and Cesar Kuriyama (Charlex). MetroCAF's screening is held at FIT's Haft Auditorium. Please come see these films screen and see which films receive Jury Recognitions. For more information on this festival and the screening, please visit their website http://www.metrocaf.org/2009/?show&sub=selection. 2009 ALUMNI ACCEPTED BY BITFILM FESTIVAL- AUGUST 2009 Bitfilm is an online and real-life event for digital animation, visual effects and new media. The following films by our 2009 alumni were accepted by Bitfilm and can be found on their website http://www.bitfilm.de/festival/ : "Le Cou Cou" by Zed Bennett, "Deja Vu" by Sean Hannon", "Fishy Tale" by Sharlene Lin, "The Wizard of Odds" by Sheri Wong, and "Fall Star" by Marian Abbruzzese. Bitfilm offers awards in four different categories, including the 3D Space Award for which "Le Cou Cou" has been nominated, and the FX Mix Award for which "Fall Star" has been nominated. Check back here soon for news regarding these awards. CLASS OF 2008 2008 ALUMNI SCREEN AT WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL--JULY 25 - AUGUST 1, 2009 Three films by 2008 alumni have been accepted at this year's Woods Hole Film Festival in the town of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. "Rock N' Roll King of the Southwest: The Bobby Fuller Story" by Nicholas Carrol, "Alien Abduction" by David Han, and "Dogfact" by Shai Halfon will be screening during the week of July 25th through August 1st. The 18th Woods Hole Film Festival is an eight day showcase of independent film featuring daily screenings, workshops, panel discussions, staged readings, special events, parties, awards ceremony and more. It's held annually for a week beginning on the last weekend of July and is the oldest independent film festival on Cape Cod and the Islands. For more information regarding tickets and showtimes visit www.woodsholefilmfestival.org. 2008 ALUMNI WINS TIE FOR 3rd PLACE AT KAFI 2009 Michael Vicari's film "The Annotation" won a tie for 3rd place in the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International 2009 Student Post Secondary and UP Category. Michael is an alumni from our 2008 class. The film was very well received by the audience at the screening. KAFI is a biannual project of Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At KAFI, artists, educators, and students display their talents, observe the talents of their peers, and participate in roundtable discussions. For more information please visit their website http://kafi.kvcc.edu/. 2009 AWARDS ANNOUNCED AT ENCORE SCREENING, MAY 13TH At our annual screening of the Senior Thesis films, the awards were announced for the following students: Jury Award for Best in Show Outstanding Achievement in Motion Graphics & Visual Effects Outstanding Achievement in Computer Animation Chair's Awards for Excellence 2008 ALUMNI MAKE IT TO THE REGIONAL FINALS OF THE 2009 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS Lilium Urbanus, by Anca Risca and Joji Tsuruga, has made it through the Semi-Finals of the Student Academy Awards and will be competing in the Animation category at the Regional Finals in Los Angeles. The film screened here in New York along with two other 2008 alumni films: Alien Abduction by David Han and YEA by Adam Newman. Lilium Urbanus will be moving on with a film from SVA's MFA Computer Art Department. Check back here soon for the results of the next round of competition. 2008 ALUMNI PART OF SIGGRAPH 2009, NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 3 - 7 The SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience that includes a large variety of presentations and installations from the newest technology and software to the most innovative digital art and film. SIGGRAPH also hosts a Computer Animation Festival, celebrating the some of the most innovative and stimulating of computer-generated animated films. This year two of our 2008 thesis films will be among those shown this August in New Orleans: Lilium Urbanus by Anca Risca and Joji Tsuruga, and Daydreamer by Roland Womack. For more information about SIGGRAPH and this festival, please visit http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/computer_animation_festival/index.php. CLASS OF 2007 2007 ALUMNI PART OF TRICKY WOMEN 2008 The film "A Faery's Tale" by Sylvia Apostol, one of our 2007 alumni, has been selected for the international competition section of the 2008 Tricky Women Animation Film Festival. Awards will be announced during the festival which will run March 27th - 30th, 2008. Organized by Culture2Culture, Tricky Women is the first and only animation festival dedicated exclusively to female animation filmmakers. "The international competition is the heart of Tricky Women 2008, which runs over five days packed with a full program of films..." For more information visit www.culture2culture.at 2007 ALUMNI PART OF STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM (TRICKFILM-FESTIVAL) The 15th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film will be screening "Fish" by Hyun Jeen Lee and Jun Sik Na, two of our 2007 alumni. The festival will be running May 1st through the 6th in Stuttgart, Germany. "With over 50,000 visitors to cinemas in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg and to the open-air even on Stuttgart's main square 'Schlossplatz' as well as 1,000 professionals, the festival is one of the largest events for animated film worldwide." For more information visit www.itfs.de 2007 ALUMNI WINS BEST STUDENT WORK IN 2007 INTERNATIONAL "GOLD PANDA" AWARDS FOR ANIMATION FESTIVAL The film "A Faery's Tale" by Sylvia Apostol has won Best Student Work in the 2007 SCTV International "Gold Panda" Awards for Animation Festival. Organized by Sichuan TV in the city Chengdu of the Sichuan province of China. "The International 'Gold Panda' Awards for Animation is designed to help promote international dialogue within the animation industry and encourage local excellent works to enter into the global marketplace as well as building cooperative relationships amongst animation companies around the world." For more information please visit www.sctv.com 2007 ALUMNI PART OF VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL The Victoria Film Festival has accepted three films by our 2007 alumni. "Remembrance" by Alejandro Monzón, "El Mono" by Minchung Cho, and "A Faery's Tale" by Sylvia Apostol will be screened during their ten-day program, February 1st through the 10th, 2008. This is the 14th year of the Victoria Film Festival whose mission "is to expose the youth and adults to a broad range of cultural, artistic and philosophical ideas and lifestyles through the presentation of film, video, new media and interactivities in order to stimulate critical analysis and inspire an interest in using the medium as a creative tool." For more information visit www.vifvf.com. 2007 ALUMNI WIN 1ST PLACE ANIMATION AT 2007 FLIFF COLLEGIATE COMPETITION The 2007 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Collegiate Competition awarded "Fish" the 1st Place prize in Animation, a film by 2007 alumni Hyun Jeen Lee and Jun Sik Na. All the first place winning films will be screened on November 5th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Begun as a collegiate competition in 1989, the festival had immediate success and soon became an international competition to include films by high school filmmakers as well. For more information visit www.fliff.com/students.asp (sponsored by Kodak)
The Best of 2007 BFA Computer Art student films have been accepted by the Big Apple Film Festival, which will be running November 14th - 17th at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. On Saturday the 17th there will be a special program, designed to include all eighteen Best of 2007 films, which will then be followed by a panel discussion as described below: This year the Big Apple Film Festival will offer a panel discussion entitled, “Film Distribution in the New Age”. The panel will focus on new outlets available to filmmakers in the 21st century to distribute and market independent films. The discussion will include information on the current trends available in the area of digital distribution, the future of independent film distribution through online, on demand and digital cable outlets and how to utilize online resources most effectively to market content, through websites such as YouTube and MySpace. For more information please visit http://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com. 2007 ALUMNI PART OF INTERNET BROADCAST STREAMBIT, Beginning in November, films by eleven 2007 BFA Computer Art alumni will be broadcasted regularly by CortoonsTV, an animated film channel produced by Cortitalia, a cultural association for the promotion of professional cinema, photography, and communications from around the world. Based in Rome, Italy, Cortitalia also organizes the International Animation Film Festival of Potenza (PIAFF) where these films have already been accepted (see below). You can find more information about CortoonsTV on their website, http://www.cortoons.it. These are the first of hopefully many SVA films to broadcast on this channel in the future. The following films and others from around the world can be viewed at www.streamit.it: "El Mono" by Minchung Cho ALUMNI BIG PART OF METRO CAF FESTIVAL 2007 - SEPTMEBER 27th For more information visit http://www.MetroCAF.org. HYUNJEEN LEE & JUN SIK NA For more information visit http://www.worldstudentfilm.com. JAMES DICK & RYAN MORAN, MINCHUNG CHO For more information visit http://www.flipfestival.co.uk. LESLIE CHUNG For more information visit http://www.angelus.org. ALUMNI PART OF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF POTENZA - OCT. 27th - 28TH For more information visit http://www.piaff.it.
CLASS OF 2006 ALUMNI PART OF VISIONFEST 07 For more information visit http://www.visionfest.org. RODRIGO DE LA PARRA To learn more about the fest, check out there website at http://www.festivalcortometrajes.cl/noticias.php.
KITTY LIN For more information on the festival, please visit their website at http://tiaf.ctfa.org.tw/2006/en/.
DAN MCNAMARA The Calderons, a film by BFA Computer Art alumnus Dan McNamara, was a finalist in the 2006 New York Television Festival and was nominated for Best Comedy Pilot, an Audience Award, and the Grand Prize. McNamara’s film was part of the Festival’s screening program at the Directors Guild Theater on September 16th.
CLASS OF 2005 AARON WEBER MATS ANDERSSON, BRIAN DINOTO, TRAVIS GRIGGS, JOSHUA HARVEY, YILLI ORANA, AMANDA PECHARSKY, AND JASON WOLLEY Abridged, by Joshua Harvey and Mats Andersson MATS ANDERSSON, JORDAN BLIT, TRAVIS GRIGGS, JOSHUA HARVEY, JUNGEUN KIM, YILLI ORANA, SONYA PARK , RAYMOND ROSS, ANTON TOKAR, LEE WOLLAND, JASON WOLLEY, BELDON WOLSON, AND KIRILL YERETSKY If All Else Fails, by Sonya Park In addition, Sweet Dreams, by 2004 alumnus Raymond Ross, will also be screening at the festival For more information, please visit the Red Stick Animation Festival website at www.redstickfestival.org. AMANDA PERCHARKSY & MARK COROTAN For more information, please visit the Anima 2006 website at folioscope.awn.com. JASON WOLLEY
CLASS OF 2004 RAYMOND ROSS & YOUNG JOON YOON JANE LEE & ANDREA SHEAR Nicktoons, Frederator Studios and Animation Magazine joined forces to create a one-of-a-kind competition called The Nicktoons Film Festival, seeking to showcase the diversity of independent cartoon filmmaking. They searched for the best cartoons on the planet–animated shorts that combine a unique look, great character design and a funny plot. The shorts selected have taken the first step in receiving a slot in the compilation series that will broadcast on Nicktoons this fall and taking home the Nicktoons Film Festival Grand Prize of $10,000. For more information on The Nicktoons Film Festival, please visit: http://www.animationmagazine.net/nicktoons.html NEO AFAN, MARTIN BOSKAR, DAMIEN CHO, ALLISON KOCHAR, JANE LEE, CHRISTOPHER MAUCH, JUN ZEE MYERS, AND EUGEN SASU, Cartoombria's objective is to bring to the attention of the general viewing public, and more specifically to a target audience of students and visual-artistically minded young people, the latest trends in computer animation from around the world. For more information on Cartoombria, please visit: http://english.cartoombria.it/ ANDREA SHEAR EMERGE AND SEE is becoming one of the best known and definitely most innovative organisation promoting student film throughout Europe. They promote the most creative and original student videos, films and animations. They bring student work to the big screen through their regular cinema events, and distribute showreels to universities and film and TV professionals, giving the stars of tomorrow unique international exposure. Through EMERGE AND SEE, Andrea Shear's film may be shown in following cities: London, Berlin, Budapest and Lucerne. The completed showreels will also be distributed to cinemas and other Festivals mainly around Europe. For more information on EMERGE AND SEE, please visit: http://www.emergeandsee.org/en/. CHRIS DELIA Among the list of judges, all internationally respected and accomplished artists and innovators, is our own Joshua Davis (joshuadavis.com), a member of the SVA Computer Art faculty. ALLISON KOCAR, JUN ZEE MYERS, AND WOO-YONG JUNG Three graduating seniors from the BFA Computer Art department received Alumni Scholarship Awards. Allison Kocar and Jun Zee Myers were awarded $1,000 for their collaborative thesis project. Wooyong Jung received $500 to aid in the completion of his thesis project. The Alumni Society awards students with contributions to enhance the quality of education at SVA and to honor students for their exceptional work.
CLASS OF 2003 JOHN HAN UPDATE: John has just been nominated for the second year in a row. Please go to the recent news page for more information. John's thesis Time Enough For Last was also recently featured in the September 2004 issue of AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER. Time Enough at Last premiered at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on February 19th, 2004 and was also screened at Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles on March 4th. For more information about the film, visit: http://www.time-enough.com/ ERIC FINKELMAN & EVAN SCHOONMAKER ROB SABATINI
CLASS OF 2002 JOHN VELAZQUEZ Luma Pictures uses the latest technology and software to provide effective solutions for the most complex visual effects scenarios. For more information on Luma Pictures, please visit: http://www.luma-pictures.com. JOON Y. LEE SCOTT GINGOLD NICO PUERTOLLANO Nico was a guest speaker for the 2002 NYC Motion Graphics Organization.
CLASS OF 2001 WENDY KLEIN CHRIS HUNG JIMMY CHEN MICHAEL BLANK ANDREW BELL RYAN SMITH ALON DAVID As an iFilm Pick, Shivelry was recognized as #9 Most Rated Film. IFILM (www.IFILM.com) is the most comprehensive guide to find and watch feature and short films online. The IFILM network provides consumers the largest online video on demand library in the world, programmed in genre specific movie channels by film and editorial experts.
CLASS OF 1997 JOSH CORDES
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