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John
Carlson
Paul is Dead
Loyola Marymount University
Currently a student at Loyola Marymount University, John Carlson has
written and directed a number of short films. The latest, Paul is
Dead, is a recipient of a Samuel Z. Arkoff Award. John has also worked
as a Director of Photography on four other short films. He will complete
his Bachelor’s Degree in Film Production in Spring 2004.
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Junho
Chung
Little Match Girl
CalArts
Junho Chung was born in Korea. He went to New York in 1997 for studying.
He majored in Illustration at the School of Visual Art. After he graduated,
he went to California. Presently, he is majoring in character animation.
“Little Match Girl” is his first animated film. He goes to CalArts
and also works as a freelance illustrator.
Anderson’s well-known classic story, “Little Match Girl”, is one of
the most famous fairy tales. Director Junho Chung changed the original
story and put in one of his questions, which is what religion and
religious behavior means for people. His three year old daughter Jennifer
gave him a motive for the Little Match Girl’s character design.
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Timothy
Dowling
Lost Hills
Loyola Marymount University
Born and raised next to the sunny beaches of Santa Monica, California,
Timothy Dowling began making skateboard movies at the age of eighteen.
Seven years and fourteen projects later, he attended film school at
Loyola Marymount University. While continuing to work full-time, Timothy
completed his final project, Lost Hills. He is currently developing
a feature film that will begin production in the fall of 2004.
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Kristina
Jessica Doyle
Futile
Loyola Marymount University
Kristina Jessica Doyle was born and raised in the small, but quickly
growing, Santa Clarita Valley. Having the secluded Los Angeles National
Forest as a backyard allowed the Stephen King saturated mind of young
Kristina Jessica to run rampant. Kristina Jessica has been compared
to such surrealist writers as Ambrose Bierce and Franz Kafka and realism
writers such as J.D Salinger and Flannery O’Conner. Kristina Jessica
greatly enjoys writing in these styles along with science fiction
and suspense/horror. Currently, Kristina Jessica has come across Richard
Matheson novels and short stories that have inspired a whole new way
of writing. She has also made it a personal goal to direct Matheson’s
I Am Legend, which, sadly, is already in production.
Futile was completed in the summer of 2002 as part of the
intermediate film production class at Loyola Marymount University.
The film was shot on super 16mm at the SOS film ranch in Aqua Dolce,
California. It is Kristina Jessica’s first major production where
she is the writer, director, editor and sound designer.
Kristina Jessica has helped on a number of student projects and independent
short films, commercials and music videos. Presently, Kristina Jessica
is editing a feature length film along with a music video. She continues
to read and write daily along with interning at Principato-Young Management,
Tall Trees Productions and The It Company Literary Management.
Kristina Jessica is now in the process of writing her second project
to be produced in the fall of 2003.
She will graduate from Loyola Marymount University in December of
2003 with degrees in Film Production and English Literature.
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Chris
Eska
Doki Doki
UCLA
Chris Eska was raised in Ottine, Texas (pop. 98). He studied sociology
and art at Rice University before attending UCLA’s MFA film directing
program. His shot films have been screened in the Coca-Cola Refreshing
Filmmaker’s competition. Texas Filmmaker’s Showcase, on PBS and at
numerous film festivals. After taking a one-year leave of absence
from UCLA to backpack across India and Asia, Chris returned to Tokyo
to produce DOKI-DOKI, his master’s thesis film. DOKI-DOKI won UCLA’s
top honor, the Spotlight Award, and is currently playing on PBS and
at several film festivals.
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Victoria Foyt
The Sweet Spot
American Film Institute
Victoria Foyt is known for her work as an actress and screenwriter in the
independent film world. Through her partnership with maverick film director
Henry Jaglom she co-wrote and starred in the romantic, critically acclaimed Déjà vu
with Stephen Dillane and Vanessa Redgrave, the theatrical farce Last
Summer In The Hamptons, and the yuppie zeitgeist-driven Babyfever, as well as
Shopping, with Rob Morrow and Lee Grant, which will be released in 2004.
Victoria recently adapted her first novel, The Virtual Life of Lexie
Diamond, a teen cyber-fantasy (signed by Amster Literary), into both a feature film
project and a television series. Victoria has completed another feature
script Lisa, Jack & Lola, a sex comedy, which, like her short film, The Sweet
Spot, (airing on KCET Fine Cut August 10) looks at the subjectivity of women's
perceptions and lengths to which they'll go to justify them. Victoria has
published film-related articles in Film & Video Production Magazine and Harper's
Bazaar. The Sweet Spot is Victoria Foyt's directorial debut.
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Xochitl
Gonzalez
Stuck
UCLA
MFA in Directing from UCLA in ’03
Stuck is a film that is very personal to me. The incident
happened to someone close to me, but the reason I wanted to write
the story is not to relate the story of one individual, but instead
deal with the universal experience of undergoing personal tragedy
or difficulty and how we as humans push through it. These moments
or episodes in life are what interests me as a filmmaker – things
that we experience individually but are truly universal.
I once read that psychology is the study of the masses that is then
applied to the individual–-in therapy. For me, filmmaking is the study
of the individual for application to the masses– when the audience
watches the film.
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Zach
Horn
It Could Be Worse
CalArts
My name is Zachary Horn and I am an animator with a B.F.A. in Film/Animation/
Video from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. in animation
from California Institute of the Arts.
My field of expertise included both character and experimental animation;
I have also worked extensively in these fields both independently
and professionally, and the scope of my work includes a significant
amount of design work. Professionally, I have worked at various organizations
that demand excellent animation and design skills. As an intern at
MTV Animation, I have worked as a chief assistant to independent animator
Bill Plympton as he developed a new pilot series for MTV entitled
Helter Shelter. Under Bill Plympton’s guidance, I sharpened
my skills in animation and developed a dedicated work ethic, in which
deadlines and creativity were equally important. As an intern at Ink
Tank, I was assigned an independent project in which I animated the
short D.O.G.O.B.G.Y.N. (about a dog gynecologist superhero
who delivers babies!) for USA Network. At Buzzco, I did extensive
storyboarding and researching for the independent film given the working
title Coney Island.
Independently, as a student at RISD and CalArts, I animated several
of my own films, including “It Could be worse” (the story of a sleep
deprived woman who fills her house with zoo animals) and “Two Chambered
hearts” (the story of two fish in love, separated by a toilet flush.)
For the past six years, I have sharpened my technical animation skills
at rigorous academic programs. I have put those skills to the test
and evolved as an animator with the requisite creativity, dedicated
work ethic and energy that dynamic animation demands. I plan on expanding
my knowledge of the animation medium in order to push its boundaries
of narrative storytelling.
Represented by Joel Gotler and Justin Manask at Joel Gotler & Associates
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Anuj Majumdar
Equation
USC
As an Indian living in America, I have simultaneously experienced and been guilty of labeling people hastily. Intrigued by our indiscreet ability to pass judgment on others, I felt the need to tackle this issue and reveal how this tendency could boomerang on us. Linked to this was the notion that one's actions, no matter how mundane, could significantly impact lives that seem otherwise unrelated.
Of course, I wanted to express this in a manner that was not preachy or pedantic but one that had a visceral impact and a humorous tone. I hope Equation succeeded in avoiding the holier-than-thou route but still managed to explore these ideas in a manner that resonates emotionally.
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Tamara
Maloney
Walter
UCLA
Tamara was born and raised in the small town of Petaluma in Sonoma
County, California. She studied Linguistics and Photography at the
University of California Santa Cruz. After working in the independent
film scene in San Francisco, Tamara moved to Los Angeles to attend
UCLA's graduate School of Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media.
Her last film: WALTER, has had several screenings in both the U.S
and abroad, including Beirut's international film festival and in
Northern California at Tiburon international film festival. Her first
film at UCLA – EDEN, a science fiction short, was fortunate
to be nominated as a finalist in, Manchester's Fantasy Film Festival
in 2001. Up coming projects include her new film: The Three Body Problem,
four short stories in one film about three different kinds of love.
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Manny
Marquez
Rudolph Florence
Art Center College of Design
Manny was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When he was six years old, he began
drawing and writing stories to accompany the photographs he was taking
with his Fisher Price. It was then that he realized he wanted to be
a filmmaker.
After gathering up his cousins and a video camera, Manny began writing
and directing his own movies. They were laden with special effects,
since his uncle was a make-up artist, but he discovered the real reason
for shooting was the story.
In high school, Manny focused on short stories and poetry. During
this time, he wrote and directed a short film called Classified,
which served as his portfolio project that he submitted for college.
In 1999, Manny studied film at the Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena, California, graduating in December 2001 with a BFA degree,
with a focus on screenwriting and directing. While at Art Center,
he wrote and directed Rudolph Florence and wrote three spec
feature scripts. His studies also included experimental photography,
fine art and art history.
Manny continues to seek out additional knowledge from writers and
filmmakers already in the industry. He remains active in the IFP West
and has recently gone through the Diversity Development Program at
Fox.
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Alex
Nam
Red Sky Morning
Loyola Marymount University
Alex Nam was raised in Los Angeles. He attended a prep boarding school
in Monterey Bay, California and received his BA at Loyola Marymount
University in 2002. He feels filmmaking is a rare opportunity and
that films can be beautiful amalgams of creative minds from all spectrums.
He thanks his friends and family for giving him the chance to do something
special. Currently, Alex works with another Loyola Marymount graduate
in their own post production company while dreaming about foreign
lands.
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Erik
Von Norsgaard
Subject One
UCLA
Having lived most of his life in Denmark, Erik Norsgaard came to the
US and Loyola Marymount University in 1998 to explore filmmaking.
Erik is now two semesters from receiving his bachelor degree at Loyola
Marymount University. In 1999 Erik completed his first super 8 films
and developed a string interest in exploring, studying and while making
films. In 2002 Erik completed the 16 mm film “Subject One” at Loyola,
which he describes as an experimental narrative- a visual and audio
like study of existence and aging. Erik intends to make his final
thesis film in the spring of 2003 and stay in the US after graduation
to make documentaries, features and direct TV.
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David
Ottenhouse
Late Summer
UCLA
David Ottenhouse hails from Houston, Texas, where he spent his cowboy
adolescence, and attended Rice University, where he pursued a B.S.
in Electrophysics along with a B.A. in Literature. He has the privilege
of working alongside renowned director, Robert Wilson, at the Paris
Opera on such productions as Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute.
He also assisted on Wilson’s production of Orlando, starring Isabelle
Hupert, at the Théatre Odéon. He then traded the City
of Light for the City of Angels and the UCLA graduate program in Film
Directing.
For his MFA, David made three shorts. Among them, Close To,
which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1997.
Loosely based on David Wojnarowicz’s Doing Time in a Disposable
Body, the brisk 9-minute short is an exploration of desire and
intimacy played out against a backdrop of anonymous sex and the threat
of violence. The film was released theatrically in the U.S. by Jour
de Fête as part of the compilation Love Reinvented.
At UCLA, David received the prestigious James Bridges Award in Directing
for his 30-minute film, Late Summer (airing on Fine Cut
on August 31). Late Summer has been picked up by Strand Releasing
for theatrical distribution in their upcoming shorts compilation Boy’s
Life 4. The film also won the Spotlight Award at UCLA and has become
a festival favorite around the world.
David returned to Paris for a year during film school on the Charles
Boyer Fellowship to study film theory with Raymond Bellour and Michèle
Lagny and to write about Deleuze’s conception of the Close-up. While
there, he completed post-production on Close To. He returned
again two years later to finish post-production on Late Summer.
David’s is currently producing and directing music videos and EPKs
for MCA Records and working on an adaptation of novelist Joseph Hansen’s
Backtrack, which he optioned with French producer François
Duplat (The Usual Suspects, Hard 8) and will direct. He is
also developing a feature film, Saturday 2 AM, with producer Stephen
Israel (Swimming with Sharks).
David lives happily in West Hollywood with his partner Andy Shipps,
for whom he has left the Paris streets behind.
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William
Overby
The Devil and Jimmy Sullivan
Loyola Marymount University
William Overby is a Senior Film Production major at Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles. Raised in Huntington Beach, California,
William has been fascinated by moviemaking since childhood. He has
directed four films at LMU and acted in several other student projects.
During the summer of 2002, William worked as Production Designer on
the 35mm film noir short, The Missing. The Devil and
Jimmy Sullivan is William’s first 16mm film, and he will be directing
his thesis film project in the fall of 2003.
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JJ Villard
Nine in a Chimney, Ten in a Bed
or Hate is a Strong Word
CalArts
JJ Villard loves to travel. Visiting foreign countries would be his
favorite hobby if it wasn't for filmmaking. JJ has studied at OTIS
College of Art and Design and transferred to the California Institute
of the Arts where he is currently studying in the Character Animation
department. He claims that "making it on animation can be tough, especially
if your piss is green and everybody else’s is yellow." Mr. Villard
also enjoys painting, writing, surfing and sipping the bubbly in good
company. Cheerio, Monsieur Villard and my best wishes to your future
career.
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Nhan
Vo
Opera
CalArts
Nhan Vo completed his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts
in May 2003. During his three years at CalArts, he finished 3 animated
films, Cofy the Clown (2001), Opera (2002) and Resist
(2003).
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Sumi
Yang Reeves
Western Avenue
American Film Institute
Born in South Korea, Sumi Yang Reeves became an American immigrant
at the age of 10. She was raised in Orange County and attended the
University of Colorado to study Fine Arts, only to move to New York
City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. This led her to
London, where she styled bands in music videos, which resulted in
her working for a director named James Lebon. Sumi became his producer,
and, after three successful years, they opened their own production
company, Films Limited. They produced many music videos and commercials
and also worked for the BBC. After returning to America, Sumi made
money as a camera assistant, during which she was exposed to all the
elements of television, feature and independent film production.
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