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DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS Degrees Hallmarks of the • B.A., Film Studies, Public Relations Chapman Program and Advertising, Screenwriting • Students get a camera in their • B.F.A., Film Production, Television hands day one and Broadcast Journalism, Digital • Focus on discovery of one’s own Arts, Screen Acting, Creative storytelling voice Producing • Small classes/personalized education • M.A., Film Studies • Direct contact with mentoring faculty • M.F.A., Screenwriting, Film and • Collaborative environment Television Producing, Film Production (with specializations in directing, Student Body editing, cinematography and • More than 1,500 students; sound design), Production Design international students from 30 • Joint Degrees M.B.A./M.F.A.; countries and numerous Fulbright J.D./M.F.A. Scholars • Admission is highly selective; one in Location five applicants is offered admission • Orange, California; 40 miles south to film production of Los Angeles Faculty University Statistics • 41 full-time, 71 adjuncts • Founded in 1861 • Faculty are working professionals • An independent, 4-year liberal arts- who have won Oscars, Emmys and based university with 7,000 students Clios. Full-time faculty have a • 51 undergraduate majors and 42 combined filmography of more than graduate programs, including 300 feature films business and law Unique Characteristics Educational Focus • Facilities are open for student use 24/7 • Primary focus on storytelling in • Each student makes a film or a mainstream Hollywood feature films creative reel, writes a screenplay, and television, and on storytelling for develops a film property ready to be business through advertising and produced or creates a public relations public relations or advertising campaign to serve as a • An emphasis on the “business of the calling card to the industry business,” how the film industry works, i.e., how films are created, marketed, and exhibited • A belief that film is “the literature of this century” TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Letter, Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners 4-5 Schedule of Events / July 30 6 Schedule of Events / July 31 7-16 Schedule of Events / August 1 17-26 Schedule of Events / August 2 27-38 Schedule of Events / August 3 39-49 Scheduled Speakers, Travel and Tourism, Maps 50-61 WELCOME TO UFVA 2013: STORY FIRST Dear colleague, We are delighted to welcome you to the 2013 UFVA conference—as always, an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and to meet new ones, both stimulating and enjoyable on so many levels. As film education is still relatively new to the academy, it is helpful to talk with others facing the same challenges of teaching and of bringing together the many diverse disciplines that go into making media in all of its forms. Although we discuss storytelling at every UFVA conference, this year we chose to highlight the importance of story as the necessary antecedent for everything else that we do. Without a continual focus on the primacy of story in every discipline— from cinematography to marketing—we are less likely to reach our full potential as filmmakers and media storytellers. We are delighted to have Peter Debruge, features editor and senior film critic for Variety, to kick off our conference with an examination of the challenges of “Inventing Stories in the Reality Era.” Peter is an astute and articulate observer of the entertainment industry and I am confident his thinking will provide a platform to launch what I expect will be a thought-provoking conference on many levels. We also hope you have time to enjoy the many attractions that Southern California has to offer. Dean Robert Bassett Twyla Reed Martin’s Dean Chair in Film and Media Arts Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts 4 UFVA 2013 / Story First / #ufva2013 EVENT SPONSORS We are grateful to the following organizations for their support of this year’s conference: AJA Autodesk Avid Entertainment Partners Huawei EXHIBITORS AT THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE INCLUDE: AbelCine Actuality Media Adobe AJA Autodesk Avid DGA Entertainment Partners Final Draft Focal Press Huawei Jungle Software JVC Michael Wiese Productions Mole-Richardson New Blue RED Sony Tiffen Vitec Videocom Write Brothers #ufva2013 / UFVA 2013 / Story First 5 TUESDAY, JULY 30 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. MKS 117 MKS 118 UFVF Board Meeting Graduate Students: How To Conference 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. MKS 117 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. UFVA Board Meeting GRADUATE STUDENT MIXER The District Lounge 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. 223 W. Chapman Ave. MKS 118 Orange, CA 92866 Grad Fellows: Meet and Greet (by invitation only, please) CREATE LIN JING Animation Student SOMETHING Singapore Polytechnic INSPIRATIONAL Download free Autodesk software and learning resources Access tools you need to help you do your most innovative work as you prepare for a career in the game design, film and television industries. Join the Autodesk Education Community to download free* software, such as Maya®, Mudbox®, and Smoke®, to use in the classroom and for personal use. View tutorials and webinars on the latest industry topics on the Autodesk Area. Join the Autodesk Education Community to post your work, see examples and communicate with peers studying animation, game design, television and film. Get started today: register at the Autodesk Education Community to access free* software and tools to inspire your imagination. 6 UFVA 2013 / Story First / #ufva2013 Visit area.autodesk.com/students. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Justin Chouinard, University of Utah Folino Theater Respondent: Sarah Abbott, SESSION 1A University of Regina Plenary – “Inventing Stories in the Reality Era” A Good Match (F, 13 min.) Peter Debruge; features editor and A woman tries to re-start a friendship senior film critic for Variety Magazine with her ex-boyfriend’s mother. Mr. Debruge has covered everything from Lyn Elliot, University of Missouri, child actors to the Cannes film festival. Kansas City His writing on film has appeared in such Respondent: Sarah Abbott, publications as Premiere, Life, Creative University of Regina Screenwriting, IndieWire and The Miami Herald, as well as in the book Variety’s Gloria The Movie That Changed My Life. (D, 15 min., WIP) Gloria, Brazilian mother of 5 and 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. grandmother of 11, tells the story Stage B of how she raised her 5 kids on her own, COFFEE BREAK working full time as a cleaner and nanny, Sponsored by AJA after her husband left her in the 1970’s. Enie Vaisburd, Pacific University Oregon 10:15 a.m. Respondent: G.T. Keplinger, Stage B Stevenson University VENDOR EXHIBITS OPEN SCREENING 2C 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. MKS 132 SESSION 2 Back to Me (MV, 3 min., NR) SCREENING 2A A music video for the band Pie MKS 111 Vanessa Newell, Loyola Pastriology Marymount University (D, 100 min., NR) Five years in the making, filmed in a The University SitCom dozen countries by professional and Seasons 1 & 2 student filmmakers, Pastriology runs the (F, 90 min., NR) full range from the pleasures and perils “The University”, a SitCom produced in of overeating to the tragedies of world the Film/Video Department at Stevenson hunger. For further information, visit University, was created in 2011 to bring http://pastriology.com traffic to the university’s website. Produced Alexis Krasilovsky, California by faculty and students working together, State University Northridge it follows the misadventures of bumbling videographer Hank Howard as he makes SCREENING 2B a promotional video for the school. Folino Theater Christopher Reed, Stevenson University The Sound of Crickets (E, 6 min.) A personal documentary about being far from home. #ufva2013 / UFVA 2013 / Story First 7 PANEL 2D and Zachary Drucker’s performance MKS 123 videos, Divine Abjection traces tactics of Reality Television: revulsion and ecstasy deployed by queer The Storytellers filmmakers to confront violence targeted After gaining attention with MTV’s “The at queer bodies. Real World” in 1992, reality television has dominated American programming, Joel Moffett, University of Hawaii & Buck led first by the huge successes of CBS’s Angel, Woodhull Sexual Freedom “Survivor” and Fox’s “American Idol” Alliance Casting Non LGBT Actors In and which has now broaden out to Films Written For LGBT Characters include such diverse shows as “Duck What are the ethical responsibilities Dynasty”, “Trick My Truck” and “Project of filmmakers in casting films with Runway.” This panel will focus on the LGBT characters? storytellers of reality television, the directors, writers, editors, and producers Hadas Marcus, Tel Aviv University who create the reality stories that have Israeli Cinema as a Reflection captured our national imagination. of Ethnic Diversity Nancy Robinson, Academy of Television Ethnic stereotypes are notoriously Arts & Sciences Foundation / difficult to eradicate, and Israeli Kristiina Hackel, California State cinema often depicts the intolerance University, Los Angeles and language barriers between various immigrant and native groups. We PANEL 2E will discuss theory and look at some MKS 121 examples of Israeli films which portray From Pedagogy to themes of displacement, alienation, Purchase: Examining marginalization, social injustice and Documentary Curriculum blurred identities. from Story Concept to Acquisition PANEL 2G This panel of top industry professionals MKS 118 will offer insights from their unique Negotiating Tricky Terrain When perspectives as documentary filmmakers, Production Faculty Collaborate marketers, distributors, and producers on With Current Students what educators can do to enhance the Inviting students to work on faculty projects post-graduate success of their students. in significant managerial and decision- Robert Johnson, Jr., Framingham State making roles poses a number of issues that University / Terry Sanders, American can affect the quality and efficiency of a Film Foundation / Mitchell Block, Direct faculty production project, as well as pose Cinema Limited / Connie Bottinelli, singular pedagogical concerns.