Mar Elepano
| Mar Elepaño | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1954 Philippines |
| Awards | Fulbright Award (2001) |
Mariano "Mar" Elepaño (born 1954) is a Filipino American independent filmmaker, teacher, and has been the production supervisor of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1993.[1]
Elepaño was born and raised in the Philippines. He came to the United States to study film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1975.[2]
Some of his short works of experimental animation (Lion Dance, Pendito, Winter, Burp, and Take 5)[3] were screened at the Asian American International Film Festival, New York, New York July 27, 1989 and at Filmex: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Short Film) March 14–30, 1979.[4][5] In addition, Winter was screened at the Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists Festival in 2006.[6] John Lent in Animation in Asia and the Pacific described Elepano as "the prime [Filipino] mover of computer animation" in the United States (p. 177).[7]
Elepaño was a Fulbright Scholar in 2001. In 2007, he received a "California Council for the Humanities Grant Award to the Khmer Girls in Action (KGA)" which helped "teenage Cambodian American girls in the Long Beach [...] develop digital narratives about their identity and their connection or disconnection to their parents' generation."[8][9] He has also been conducting workshops for Visual Communications (VC), "a Los Angeles-based Asian American community media arts group since 1986."[1]
Awards
- 2007 California Council for the Humanities Grant Award [8]
- 2003 Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Fund Award [10]
- 2002 USC School of Cinematic Arts Staff Achievement Award [10]
- 2001 Fulbright Award (Malaysia) [1]
Publications
- Labtalk in Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts, edited by Russell Leong. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1992.[11]
References
- John A. Lent, ed. Animation in Asia and the Pacific, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Tolento, Rolando B. "Identity and Difference in Filipino/A American Media Arts." In Screening Asian Americans edited by Peter X. Feng. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Notes
- 1 2 3 USC Cinema - Faculty/Staff » Mariano (Mar) Elepano
- ↑ USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty
- ↑ Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5 - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - The New York Times
- ↑ Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5, Mar Elepano - Variety Profiles
- ↑ LION DANCE/PENDITO/WINTER/BURP/TAKE 5">
- ↑ Abstraction and Visual Music — iota
- ↑
- 1 2 USC Cinema - About » Announcements » Major Grant
- ↑ cambodianfilm
- 1 2 USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty
- ↑ Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts
External links
- Film Gallery
- Faculty page - USC School of Cinematic Arts
- Faculty page - Division of Animation and Digital Arts
- Pixar's Future Plans Could Include Disney (Brief interview)