Tisch Asia co-hosted the “Next Gen 2010″ party at the W Hotel, Hong Kong on 23 March 2010, Tuesday.

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Will Canon’s Brotherhood

On March 16, 2010, the Jury and Audience Award-winners of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival were announced at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony in Austin, Texas.

With its world premiere in the narrative competition at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival, Brotherhood, scored the Audience Award in its category. The film was blessed with the great talent of Tisch alumni collaborating with fellow NYU alumni.

The concept for this movie (a fraternity initiation ritual gone terribly awry) originated from the plot of Will Canon’s award-winning junior level NYU short film project, Roslyn, made in 2000. Brotherhood is one of only eight films from 831 submissions selected for narrative competition at this year’s SXSW Film Festival.

Alumni included:
Will Canon ’01 (Tisch, BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Director
Doug Simon ’02 (Tisch, BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Co-writer
Josh Schaeffer ’01 (Gallatin, BA), Editor
Dan Morocco ’02 (Steinhardt), Score
Jesse Steccato ’00 (Tisch, BFA, Drama)
Meyer deLeeuw ’02 (Tisch, BFA, Drama)

On Friday the 12th of March, NYU Tisch Asia celebrated a momentous day. The first Stereoscopic 3-D film-shoot in history for both campuses was shot on NYU Tisch Asia’s three-year old campus.

The shoot was for a trailer for graduating student Basil Mironer’s first feature titled  “Black Echo”.  Widescreen-Revolutions provided the 3D camera comprised of a Mirror Rig with two RED cameras. In addition, Basil Mironer, collaborated with local action star Sunny Pang and actress Amanda Klein from Universal Studios Singapore for the shoot.

In tandem with the local production company, the students built realistic tunnels from the ground up – Utilizing plywood, metal, and cement covered in dirt and roots. The end result is sure to terrify the users as they experience fear and claustrophobia underground in 3-D.

The screen play is being written by well known Singaporean screenwriter and Tisch Asia Dramatic Writing student Ken Kwek and MFA writing candidate Garrett Lander. In the next year, the producing team headed by rising third year film student Alice Ho, will be communicating with investors all over the world to usher in this new 3-D experience.

Thursday – 12 March, 2010

by Christa Yeo

Photo Credit: Chessa Lim

An America student at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia, which is located in Singapore, has won a playwrighting contest in the United States with a piece of work that started out as a class assignment.

Josh Billig’s one-act play, Outside Sitka, won the 24th annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival 2010 Playwrighting Contest. The festival is an annual five-day celebration held in New Orleans in late March to honour the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams.

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Third-year film student Gavin Ramoutar takes us on a tour of the sights and sounds of Singapore.

Director of Tisch Asia’s department of Animation and Digital Arts, Jean-Marc Gauthier and Tisch Asia students talk about their program and life in Singapore.

Learn everything you’ve always wanted to know about the Tisch School of the Arts Asia Dramatic Writing MFA program.  Watch our new video featuring the faculty and staff of the Dramatic Writing program:

Juan Jose Campanella ’78 (MFA, Kanbar, Film)

Geoffrey Fletcher ’99 (MFA, Kanbar, Film)

Photos by Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.

Tisch alumni continued their winning streak during the 2010 awards season. Oscars and Independent Spirit Awards were bestowed upon Tisch alumni in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television for their cinematic achievements.

Tisch School of the Arts’ alumnus Geoffrey Fletcher ’99 (MFA, Kanbar, Film) scored an Oscar for Adapted Screenplay for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, as well as  an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for the same film.

Fletcher was joined by fellow Kanbar Institute alumni Juan Jose Campanella ’78 (MFA, Kanbar, Film), who received the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, El secreto de sus ojos; and at the Independent Spirit Awards, Joel Coen ’78 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV) took home the Robert Altman Award for A Serious Man.

Allan Nicholls	Chris Martin

Tisch Asia film faculty member Allan Nicholls and student Chris Martin will judge the upcoming Berklee College of Music’s Film Scoring Competition.  The competition requires contestants to compose and record an original musical score for the short film WHAM directed by Chris Martin.

More information about the Film Scoring Competition can be found here.

Congratulations to Tisch Asia Dramatic Writing student Josh Billig for winning the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival’s One-Act contest with his play “Outside Sitka”!

The festival is held March 24 – 28 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

For more information click here.