Guantanamo Now! Liberty
and Justice for AllSpring 2006 Project
Update and Announcement
This documentary work-in-progress
is moving ahead, with the rough cut done in the fall being completed during
the Spring 2006 semester. Anyone interested in
becoming a participant in this video production, please email Professor
Marilyn Rivchin
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STUDENT
FILMS I -- Sunday, May 8, at 7:30 P.M.
at Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell Cinema
Tickets: $6 general/$4.75 students & seniors/$4 CU graduate
FILM 422: Cinematography
Short 16mm films, digital group projects and and exercises by the new Cinematography
class students taught by Marilyn Rivchin. These include narrative, experimental,
documentary, lighting, blue screen, hand-processed, cross-processed and other
wild projects. Includes work by: Stephanie Friede, David Gelston, Dennison
Hatch, Jamie Herring, Ben Mercer, Shawn McMullen, Ryan Spicer, Pam Su, Trevor
White, Jeff Wang
STUDENT
FILMS II -- Friday, May 13, at 8:00 P.M.
at the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Cornell
Tickets are $6 at the door, $5 in advance (avoid the crowds!)
FILM 493: Advanced
Film & Digital Video Projects
The premiere of original dramatic and comedic narrative, documentary and experimental
films by a talented group of new filmmakers in the advanced production course
taught by Marilyn Rivchin. They include:
Dan Cohen "Artistic
Differences"
Andy Guess "Confederates in the Backyard: An Upsate New York Story"
Zach Jones "Maggot Brain"
Dani Sanchez-Lopez "escaleNO"
Pam Su "No. 80"
Pietre Valbuena "The Origin of Atherton," (adapted from "The
Death Ray" by Dan Clowes)
Eduardo Wong "Academic Sabotage"
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Film
Festival Awards to Cornell Filmmakers!Enrique
Leal, for Una Güerita-Honorable Mention for Directing at the Columbia University
Film Festival 2005Amir
Noorani, for Can We Talk? - Best Cinematography (Pam Su, D.P). at the
Brandeis Film Festival March, 2005 and Honorable Mention for Outreach at the
Columbia University Film Festival 2005
Brad
Wilson for Penny: A Musical Comedy -
Founder's Award at
the Ivy League Film Festival April 2005
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Kodak
Cinematographer Bart Durkin Visits
TA422 class for 35mm ShootOn April
13, 2005, film production students had the opportunity to get hands-on with
35mm, the same format used in major motion pictures. Bart
Durkin, who travels worldwide teaching cinematography for Kodak, brought an
Arriflex camera, assorted lenses and other accessories and provided an informative
overview of the special considerations when shooting in 35mm. Students
travelled to Kodak's HD telecine facility in Rochester on April 25th to see
first hand how film is transferred to High Definition video for color correction
and post-production.
Student
director Denison Hatch sizes up the scene.
Getting
hands on with the Arriflex as Jeff Wang and Shawn McMullen listen to Bart
instruct Denison on the follow focus.
Getting
ready for the first scene in the classroom studio.
Setting
up to film a scene outdoors.
Students
also documented the shoot with digital video.
How
many film students does it take to do a 35mm shoot? :)
Ben
Mercer watches as Kodak colorist Kyle Alvut applies color correction and cropping
to the scene with the DaVinci 2K system.
Shawn
tries his hand at the controls and finds its not as easy as a pro like Kyle
made it look.
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The Film Program
of the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance
ANNOUNCES CORNELL’S
Melville
Shavelson (’37) Grants in Filmmaking for 2005
for
Production in T.A. 493 Advanced Film & Video Projects, Spring, 2005
Best
Screenplay Award to the Project:
"The Origin of Atherton" - Pietre Valbuena
Film
Production Awards
"escaleNo" - Daniel Sanchez-Lopez No. 80 - Pam Su"The Origin of Atherton" - Pietre ValbuenaFilm Faculty Jury: Don Fredricksen, Sabine Haenni, Marilyn Rivchin and Amy Villarejo
This fall semester,
students in Jeff Hirschberg's Screenwriting course have been afforded an opportunity
to interact with many notables in the television and film industry. Dubbed
the Cornell-Hollywood Connection, this guest speakers program has been a big
hit with students.