Projects supported through the Directors or Screenwriters Labs receive continued tailored support from the Feature Film Program, which can include ongoing creative and strategic advice, significant production and postproduction resources, a Screenplay Reading Series, a Work in Progress Screening Initiative and direct financial support through project-specific grants and artist fellowships.

Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “For independent artists in particular, it can be challenging to receive specialized support and encouragement. As our offerings for artists continue to grow our hope is that filmmakers have added incentive to remain true to their visions throughout the creative process.”

Michelle Satter, Founding Director of the Feature Film Program, said, “Our Directors and Screenwriters Labs are a creative hotbed for innovation and collaboration, and we appreciate the opportunity to work with emerging artists on the leading edge of independent filmmaking. We look forward to helping their unique visions unfold in the inspired setting of the Utah mountains, as we have done for more than three decades.”

Gyula Gazdag returns as the Artistic Director for the Directors Lab. This year’s Creative Advisors for the Directors and Screenwriters Labs include Gregg Araki, Michael Arndt, Andrea Arnold, John August, Ramin Bahrani, Walter Bernstein, Mark Boal, Scott Z. Burns, Sebastian Cordero, Joan Darling, Caleb Deschanel, Suzy Elmiger, Robert Elswit, Billy Goldenberg, Deena Goldstone, Affonso Gonçalves, Ed Harris, Michael Hoffman, Azazel Jacobs, Christine Lahti, Kasi Lemmons, Peter Medak, John Cameron Mitchell, Walter Mosley, Jessie Nelson, Jeff Nichols, Robert Redford, Jennifer Salt, Susan Shilliday, Stewart Stern, Wesley Strick, Joan Tewkesbury, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Bill Wheeler, Tyger Williams and Doug Wright.

Watch the ANDA Spring Show 2012 live at http://animation.nyu.edu.sg/live

4th May 2012 5PM – 9PM UTC +8:00

A special mention goes out to Charles Lim, husband of Wee Lilin ’10 (MFA, Kanbar, Dramatic Writing) whose film, All The Lines Flow Out won the Best Experimental Shot, also in the Short Film Competition.

Founded in 1969 as the Sinking Creek Film Celebration and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country, Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) is hosted by the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since becoming the Nashville Independent Film Festival in 1998, and then the Nashville Film Festival in 2003, this annual mid-Tennessee film event attracts enthusiastic film lovers from the region and has been praised by filmgoers and filmmakers alike for its unique combination of big city film festival atmosphere and Southern hospitality. With over 215 films from 38 countries, numerous industry panels, music showcases, and great parties every night, the annual festival drew over 26,000 attendees. With films crossing all genres from drama, comedy, animation, and family to experimental, foreign, documentaries and short films, the Festival has something for every filmgoer to enjoy. Voted as one of “25 film festivals worth the entry fee” by MovieMaker Magazine and highlighted for “One of the Best Film Festival Prizes” by Film Festival Today, it is one of the most acclaimed film festivals in the South of USA.

International Media Producing MFA Program

Presents

The Inaugural End of Year Show

celebrating the creative achievements of the class of 2012 & introducing the class of 2013

Monday, May 7, 2012

The Commons

Tisch School of the Arts Asia

3 Kay Siang Road, Singapore 248923

From 6 – 8 PM

International Media Producing department’s TV Producing class is co-producing a six-part interview series for the BBC entitled Mishal Husain Meets. The class is teaming with Make World Media, a London- and Singapore-based company.

Hosted by Mishal Husain, one of BBC’s most experienced and respected presenters, the program features one-on-one interviews with six of Asia’s most prominent opinion formers and personalities from business, the arts, politics and sports.  The personalities that will appear on the program are Mazlan Othman, Bernard Harrison, Eric Khoo, Sana Mir, Li Cunxin and Chin Han.

All departments at Tisch Asia are involved in the production. Dramatic Writing students have been researching the guests, Film Students will be operating cameras and sound and IMP students will be Producing, Floor Managing,and Art Directing. Two graduates of the ANDA program are providing graphics for the introduction sections of the show. It is a full on professional collaboration that is just the beginning of an ongoing relationship with the BBC and Make World Media.

Producer Sarah MacDonald of Make World Media recently gave students a masterclass in investigative journalism where she spoke about her award winning work for the BBC. In 2000, Sarah began a seven month undercover investigation into familial child abuse in Liverpool which involved putting secret cameras on a victim to entrap her abusers. As a result of the film, three men were jailed for a total of 90 years. She followed this up with three films investigating child abuse and the Catholic Church which resulted in the resignation of an Irish Bishop and an Irish 2 Government inquiry. Most recently Sarah went undercover in “The Cancer Cell” to expose the bogus cancer clinics in Tijuana, Mexico for Al Jazeera.