Tisch Asia Blog

Orientation Week 2010: “Passing Time” Screening and Q&A with Director Laura Bispuri

Wai Xiao Wen — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:29:23 +0000

DAY TWO. The Orientation Week continues with a special treat: Screening of Italian film, “Passing Time” directed by Laura Bispuri yesterday. Grad Film Department co-organized this exclusive screening and Q&A session with Director Laura Bispuri with the Italian Cultural Institute in Singapore.

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Orientation Week 2010: Welcome First Years!

Wai Xiao Wen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:20:46 +0000

It’s ORIENTATION WEEK! Tisch Asia warmly welcomes the First Years to Singapore. This year, the community welcome the new members of Tisch Asia with a casual “satay and beer” party at campus. Everyone is excited and gently adapting to the exotic Singapore environment. The First Years have a busy orientation week ahead – packed with talks, workshops, screenings, Q&As with Filmmakers, Writers and Animators. Once again, WELCOME TO SINGAPORE!

Mingling already! 3rd Year Film Alice Ho with 1st Year Film Candice Vaughn.

Satay, a local Malay delicacy – basically, BBQ meat on a stick.

The most popular (besides the satay): BEER!

Food! Food!

First Years heading for the salad and dessert bar.

3rd Year Film student Zippy Kimundu and faculty Jon Hammond.

President Pari Shirazi and faculty Wendy Hammond.

Tisch Asia staff: John Burkhart and Jason Beckerman.

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Tisch Asia’s Basil Mironer Makes Film with His Family

Wai Xiao Wen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:31:49 +0000

Recent Grad Film graduate, Basil Mironer collaborated with his family in the making of a 30-minute independent film entitled, “Fire Proof” or “Thohn Fai” in Thai. Basil co-wrote the story with his father, Dr. Eugene Mironer for his brother, Ben. This “first family collaboration” captured the attention of local journalist, Kim Kimzey and the story was published here. The film was shot over 10 days at Mironer’s former school, Spartanburg Day School with a budget of USD$15,000.

His crew comprises of former classmates from Tisch Asia and film producer Tommy Oliver.

source: GoUpstate.com

Tisch Community Members Take Home Emmys

Mariangela Lardaro — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:50:39 +0000

The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were hosted at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles last night. Nine Tisch School of the Arts alumni were recognized for their outstanding achievements in television.

One Tisch professor received his Creative Arts Emmy at a ceremony held by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on August 21.

Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series: Mad Men
Carrie Audino ’97 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), CSA, Casting

Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie Or A Special: The Pacific
Jennifer Euston ’97 (BFA, Cinema Studies), CSA, New York Casting Director

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special: The Pacific • Part Five
Daniel S. Irwin ’92 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), MPSE, Supervising Dialogue and ADR Editor

Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming: By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama
Sam Pollard, Professor (Kanbar, F&TV), Editor
Arielle Amsalem ’06 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Editor

Outstanding Costumes for a Variety/Music Program or a Special: Jimmy Kimmel Live
Rodney Munoz ’92/’93 (BFA/MFA, Design)

Outstanding Comedy Series: Modern Family
Bill Wrubel ’93 (MFA,Kanbar, Goldberg DDW), Co-Executive Producer
Paul Corrigan ’94 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Co-Executive Producer
Brad Walsh ’94 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Co-Executive Producer

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Steve Bodow ’95 (MPS, Kanbar, ITP), Supervising Producer

2010 Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Joshua Sanchez — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:47:26 +0000

The 2010 Creative Arts Emmy Awards were given out Saturday, August 21st in Los Angeles. The below members of the Tisch community took home a statuette for achievements in their field. The 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards will be aired on Sunday, August 29th on NBC.

Outstanding Casting for A Drama Series
Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Carrie Audino ’97 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), CSA, Casting

Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
The Pacific • HBO • Playtone and Dreamworks in association with HBO Miniseries
Jennifer Euston ’97 (BFA, Cinema Studies), CSA, New York Casting Director

Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming
By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama • HBO • Green Film Company, Citi Productions, Class 5 Films and GOOD in association with HBO Documentary Films
Sam Pollard, Professor (Kanbar, F&TV), Editor
Arielle Amsalem ’06 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Editor

ANDA Event: GRACE UNDER WATER

Joshua Sanchez — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:50:59 +0000

NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia
Animation and Digital Arts MFA program

GRACE UNDER WATER:

Workshop and talk by Anthony Lawrence
3D Stereoscopic Animation and Special Effects
Discussion and visual presentation on some of the technical challenges of Anthony’s next animation feature

Saturday, 4th September
Workshop in Classroom 1, 4th floor, Tisch Asia 1pm to 5pm
Talk in the Black Box Theatre, 2nd Floor, Tisch Asia 5.30pm – 6.30pm
3 Kay Siang Road, Singapore
RSVP ONLY. Please email Vaani vb38@nyu.edu by 31st August

Our Apple Girl (My Space My Time) at 2010 Taiwan International Student Design Competition

Joshua Sanchez — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:26:12 +0000

Our Apple Girl (My Space My Time) has been selected for the 2010 Taiwan International Student Design Competition.

Congratulations to Kai-Sen Chan, Sandhya Prabhat, Jeremy Chia and Weng Tzu-Yin, and to the Animation and Film students who also collaborated on this project.

Tisch Summer High School Program in Singapore 2010: Chinatown

Wai Xiao Wen — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:45:33 +0000

The Tisch Summer High School Program in Singapore is not all work and no play. The high school students did an impromptu performance with their teaching assistants along Pagoda Street in Chinatown during one of the Arts & Culture tour.

Tisch Asia: Summer High School Program 2010 – Pagoda St, Chinatown Part 1

Tisch Asia: Summer High School Program 2010 – Pagoda St, Chinatown Part 2

Dramatic Writing Program at Short+Sweet Festival in Singapore

Joshua Sanchez — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:51:57 +0000

Tisch Asia’s Dramatic Writing Program, in only its second year, was a force in The Singapore Short+Sweet Festival. Of the 40 plays presented, eight were written by faculty and students in Dramatic Writing Program — Joshua Billig, David Chang, Wendy Hammond (faculty), Drayton Hiers, Jill Karkosak, Dean Lundquist, William Kovacsik (faculty), Li Linn Wee. Ms. Hammond also directed the play by Ms. Wee, a wonderful collaboration of faculty and student. William Kovacsik and Dean Lundquist were finalist for the Judge’s Picks awards, and Josh Billig was a finalist for The People’s Choice Awards. Short+Sweet Theatre is the biggest festival of ten minute theater in the world, held annually in ten different theaters in Australia and Southeast Asia. Watch out next year!

Siggraph 2010 on Forbes.com

Joshua Sanchez — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:47:54 +0000

Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts Chair, Jean Marc Gauthier is mentioned in this Forbes.com article on Siggraph 2010:

Organic Motion to Host the World’s First Real-Time Markerless Motion Capture Animation Event

BusinessWire – SIGGRAPH — Organic Motion, a leading computer vision company, today announced it will host the world’s first real-time markerless motion capture demonstrations showcasing the creation of full mocap animated scenes, recorded live during the SIGGRAPH 2010 Exposition. To showcase the power of Organic Motion’s STAGE(TM) system, the company has invited a number of renowned artists, Emmy(R) Award winners, educators and customers to show how the technology dramatically decreases the time and costs when creating human animations. The sessions will be held at Organic Motion’s booth (#636) in the Los Angeles Convention Center Hall, from July 27-29.