New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia

presents a symposium on

“Film and Television: Singapore as a Media Hub”

Date: Thursday, 22 April 2010

Time: 0900 – 2000

Address: 3 Kay Siang Road Singapore 248923

SCHEDULE:

09:00 – 10:00 AM
Skype with NY Career Development Office

10:30 – 12:00 PM
Panel: “Careers in the Film Industry”
Shekhar Kapur
Steve Stine
Gillian Gordon

15:00 – 17:00PM
Panel: “Internships & Gainful Employment”
Kathleen McInnis
Silvia Wong
Freddie Yeo
Zaihirat Codelli
Chang Yee Yeo

17:00 – 18:00 PM
Mad Tea Party @ Demo Tech Space

18:00 – 20:00 PM
Panel: “The Future of Film in Singapore”
Daniel Yun
Ben Slater
Li-Anne Huang

NYU is proud to host a directing workshop with Award Winning
Taiwan film director:

YonFan

Friday April 9
2-5pm
black box theatre
all Tisch Asia Students welcome

The director will also provide a DVD of his latest film
PRINCE OF TEARS
For our library and will answer questions at the beginning of the workshop

The Artistic Director of NYU Tisch Asia

Oliver Stone

Will present an all-school session on
WALL STREET I and II

Friday Jan 29th
Stage II
2-6pm

NYU Tisch Asia Grad Film
in association with the
ANDA Acting Class conducted by John Martin
will present an interview with
Academy Award™ nominee

ELISABETH SHUE
star of Leaving Las Vegas, Karate Kid, Back to the Future II, Deconstructing Harry and Hamlet 2

Friday Jan 29th
Black Box Theatre
10:30-11:00
(arrive a little early as time is subject to shift slightly)

In anticipation of this exciting event please attend a special screening of
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Monday evening
7pm Theatre II

As part of our 5th anniversary next year, the Asian Film Archive and Tisch Asia are presenting

Film Preservation

Feb 26th
2pm-3pm
Theatre II
All Tisch Students Welcome

Our talk will introduce the concept and importance of film preservation to your students. It will begin by outlining the various types of technical damage that result from the careless treatment of film. More importantly, the talk aims to clear up the common misconception that film preservation is only for films that have outlived their marketable value or is reserved exclusively for prominent filmmakers. In fact, the talk will highlight the importance and usefulness of preserving materials from the beginning of a film shoot such as storyboards and student films. The talk will also clarify how film preservation extends across mediums: the preservation of both film and digital mediums will be addressed.

Three days to shoot. Three days to edit. How would you describe Madrid as a tourist destination in those six days?

Five students from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts graduate film program in New York traveled to Madrid in October to compete in Turismo Madrid’s “Madrid Dares You” short film competition.

The students, Marie Dvorakova, Mykwain Gainey, Fred Guerrier, Neil Orman and Brooke Swaney, were each assigned a thematic area of focus — people, culture, gastronomy, night life, or fashion and luxury — as a storyline for their films.

Monument in Spain. Photo courtesy of Madrid Tourism Board.

Patti Pearson, assistant to the associate dean and assistant director of special projects at Tisch’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, told the Washington Square News said she was ‘thrilled to collaborate with the Madrid Tourism Board on the project.’

“The five thesis students selected from the graduate film program have demonstrated exceptional talent and ability in film production and can offer a unique and fresh perspective of Madrid to U.S. audiences,” Pearson said. “Opportunities such as these give students ‘real world’ experience as they prepare to complete their thesis films and begin working in the industry.”

The winner receives $4,400 and will be announced on November 19.

Watch the films and cast your vote at! Visit Madrid Dares You.

Oliver Stone, Artistic Director of Tisch School of the Arts Asia, had his new documentary South of the Border premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. In the audience was Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

Read the article on variety.com.

The New York Times has a great feature on Oliver Stone, Tisch School of the Arts Asia’s Artistic Director, in which he discusses the impetus behind his upcoming sequel to Wall Street.

Read the article and check out a great video interview of him here.

Tisch Asia’s own Shijie Tan’s film Er Ren (For Two) has been accepted to the 66th Venice Film Festival. Inspired by true events, Er Ren is a story about relationships and their illusions. A lonely widower lives in his sparse apartment, still longing for his deceased wife. Living secretly in his house, however, there is a woman, who takes part to this life “together” with him, taking care of the home when he’s not there. When the fragile reality of this life “together” threatens to become too real for either to take, both Man and Woman must react.

The film will screen on September 8th. Visit the Venice Film Festival website for more information about the screening and for tickets.

We caught up with Shijie recently and got his thoughts on Er Ren and his experience at Tisch Asia.

Describe your film Er Ren (For Two)?
The story is about a curious relationship between a man and a woman who lives, in secret, inside his cupboard. They share a life “together”; a fragile relationship held up by the implicit denial of each other, in different ways. One of the key aims of this film was to depict this fragility aesthetically.

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From the Daily News:

Oliver Stone has a secret . . . or ten.

The Academy Award-winning director is shooting a ten part nonfiction series for Showtime about “secret” events in U.S. history.

“Oliver Stone’s Secret History of America,” debuting in 2010, covers topics from the reasons behind the Cold War with the U.S.S.R. and changes in America’s global role since the fall of Communism to President Harry Truman’s difficult decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945.

Showtime says the project examines events that were “at the time under-reported, but crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history.”

Stone believes the series will become “the deepest contribution I could ever make in film to my children and the next generation,” he said in a statement to Reuters. “I can only hope a change in our thinking will result.”

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