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Welcome to the 2009 CSUN Senior Film Showcase. The films you will see tonight were completed in the senior level film production course in the Department of Cin-ema and Television Arts and are the capstone projects. This culminating experience decreases the gap between academic training and the rigors of the professional world. It also gives the advanced film student an oppor-tunity to produce a Super 16 or 35mm motion picture of substance.

All of the films were written, produced and directed by students in the Film Production Option under the guidance of the film production faculty with funding provided by the California State University, Northridge Associated Students Instructionally Related Activities Fund, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The students must raise any additional monies needed and are given the creative freedom to produce what they wish. It is their persistence and tireless dedication that we salute with this screening. For the filmmakers honored tonight this will be the first public presentation of their work. Your response to their projects will be the first test of their endeavors.

The Film Production Option is proud to acknowledge our continued association with the Hol-lywood Foreign Press Association. In addition to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Senior Film Edit Suite in Manzanita Hall, they have provided state-of-the-art digital location sound equipment for our senior film students and have most recently provided Pro Tools hardware and software upgrades to our Film Surround Sound Mix Studio. This facility will be named shortly the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Film Mix Studio. Also, our student directors this evening have the distinction of being Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellows.

We are also proud of our relationship with Arri, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of motion picture equipment and cameras. CTVA Alumnus and Arri, Inc. Vice-President Bill Russell has been instrumental in the development of The Arri 35mm Project, a program which provides a 35mm motion picture experience to a selected CSUN senior film group each semester. The films Undy-ing Love and I Do and I Don’t, screening tonight, are participants in the program.

Please sit back and enjoy the show, and afterwards, join us for a reception and live music in the lobby.

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Professor Nate ThomasHead, Film Production Option

Director, CSUN Senior Film Showcase

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the following individuals have been honored at the Annual Senior Film Showcase. We are especially proud of those whom we count among our alumni.

For those of you who are graduating this year, please remember to keep in touch by keeping your information current in the networking section of the CTVA website.

2003 Paul Hunter Director: Bulletproof Monk[Alumnus]

2004 Donald Petrie Director: Grumpy Old Men[Alumnus] Dagmar DunlevyHollywood Foreign Press Association

2005Darren Grant

Director: Diary of a Mad Black Woman[Alumnus]

Sinbad Entertainer 2006

Bill RussellVice-President of Arri, Inc.

[Alumnus]

Clint Howard Entertainer

2007 Keri Selig Producer: Passengers[Alumna]

Tracie GrahamProducer: Windtalkers

[Alumna]

2008James Mathers Cinematographer: Montana Amazon[Alumnus]

Spiros Stathoulopoulos Director: PVC-1

[Alumnus]

Robert Mitas Production Company Executive[Alumnus]

Robert TownsendEntertainer

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Film Showcase7:30 – 9:30 PM

Welcome

Tag (18 min.)

I Do and I Don’t (12 min.)

The Sounds of Silence (17 min.)

Undying Love (16 min.)

Family Pieces (19 min.)

Cinematheque Awards

Acknowledgment of Sponsors

Closing Remarks

Reception9:30 – 11:00 PM Program

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Bill Duke

With a wide range of credits to his name in almost every film discipline, including directing, producing, acting and writing, Bill Duke has founded Duke Media, formerly Yagya Productions, which has been in existence for approximately twenty years. For three years, Mr. Duke served as the Time Warner Endowed Chair in the Department of Radio Television and Film at Howard University in Washington, DC. He was then ap-pointed to the National Endowment of the Humanities by former president Bill Clinton. Mr. Duke has also been appointed to the California State Film Commission Board by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Duke now serves on the Board of Trustees at the American Film Institute.

Mr. Duke continues to perfect and display his expertise as director, actor and producer. Mr. Duke recently performed in the role of Amos in an ABC pilot entitled Karen Sisco. He has also directed episodes and acted in the hit TV show Fastlane starring Bill Bellamy. Bill Duke has taken on socially conscious, educational and mind-stimulating projects, such as Deacons for Defense (directed by Mr. Duke and starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Silverman, and Ossie Davis), about a group of World War II veterans, and Partners of the Heart, a documentary about a young black man named Vivien Thomas who trained the major heart surgeons that graduated from John Hopkins University. Mr. Thomas was responsible for the training of these surgeons while only having a high school education. In addition, Mr. Duke recently directed an episode of CBS’s Rob-bery Homicide, Michael Mann’s all digital episodic drama .

Mr. Duke fuses the worlds of music and film together in a long-form music video entitled Angel starring DMX and Mary J. Blige. His other recent directing efforts include the pilot for the A&E television film The Golden Spiders (starring Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton), two episodes of the UPN drama Legacy, and an episode of the acclaimed series City of Angels. Mr. Duke recently completed some co-starring roles in the following projects: Never Again with Jill Clayburgh, Exit Wounds with DMX and Steven Segal, Foolish with Master P and Eddie Griffin, The Limey with Peter Fonda, Fever with Henry Thomas, Walter Mosley’s Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned with Laurence Fishburne, Payback with Mel Gibson, Blackjaq with Nia Long, and John Landis’ Susan’s Plan with Dan Akroyd, Nastassja Kinski and Billy Zane. He also directed and executive produced the $35 million dollar Harlem drama Hoodlum featuring an ensemble cast that included Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Williams, Tim Roth, and Andy Garcia.

The diversity of Bill Duke’s career has been growing steadily in scope since the beginning. In the film world, Duke made an auspicious directorial debut with the Killing Floor, starring Damian Leak and the late Mo-ses Gunn. He followed with A Rage in Harlem, based on Chester Himes’ celebrated novel, starring Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Danny Glover, and Robin Givens. He went on to direct the emotionally harrow-ing action drama Deep Cover (starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum, the romantic comedy The

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Cemetery Club (starring Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis and Diane Ladd), and the hit sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (starring Whoopi Goldberg and Lauryn Hill). Mr. Duke has been especially successful in television, receiving a Cable ACE Award for his direction of American Dream: The Boy Who Painted Christ Black. He also directed the pilot for the critically acclaimed Fox series New York Undercover, which starred Malik Yoba and Michael DeLorenzo. In episodic television, he directed award-winning segments of Cagney and Lacey and Hill Street Blues, as well as episodes of rating giants such as Knot’s Landing, Dallas, Falcon Crest and Miami Vice. More recently, Mr. Duke has completed two feature films: Cover, which is now available through Fox Home Video, and Not Easily Broken, based on the best-selling novel by Bishop T.D. Jakes, which is in theaters now.

Bill Duke has also directed several award-winning, high-profile dramas. His two teleplays for PBS, The Meeting and A Raisin in the Sun, received an NAACP Image Award nomination and also earned Duke an Emmy nomination. His direction of The Killing Floor for American Playhouse garnered a total of 10

awards from film festivals across the globe and was chosen to compete in the Critic’s Week of Judging (Director’s Fortnight) at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.

Although Mr. Duke’s work behind the camera has expanded into every conceivable genre, he has continued to be a presence in front of the camera. Duke has been seen in memorable roles, including American Gigolo (opposite Richard Gere), Predator and Commando (opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger), and Bird on a Wire (opposite Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn). He received an NAACP Image Award nomination for his role in Action Jackson and had a starring role in the highly praised Alex Haley television series Palmerstown, USA. Mr. Duke’s talents and credits also extend into

publishing. In 1994, he completed Black Light: The African American Hero, an inspiring photo essay cel-ebrating 90 of the greatest black heroes of the 20th century through whom the depth and achievements of the African American experience are illuminated. His last book, The Journey, a book for people of all ages, was published in August 1997.

Just as Mr. Duke finds it essential to explore every aspect of his talent, he also believes in sharing his talent with the community. He has devoted much of his time to work with non-profit and charity organizations such as Educating Young Minds, a vigorous program that serves students who are considered under-rep-resented or at high risk in our society. Since 1987, Educating Young Minds has helped inner-city students (ages 5-18) excel at school and at life with “home-study” instruction during the day, after-school tutoring, and basic skills and standardized test preparation classes on Saturdays.

In April of 2004, Mr. Duke accepted an appointment to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Film Commission, which works to enhance the economic climate of the state by keeping film industry jobs in California. He was appointed alongside of Danny DeVito, Clint Eastwood, Tom Werner, and Lili Zanuck.

Bill Duke is a native of Poughkeepsie, NY and was educated at Boston University and NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned his MFA. He began his career directing off Broadway plays, in-cluding the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Unfinished Women, for which he won the 1974 Adelco Award. He then went on to study for two years at the American Film Institute. His AFI student project, a short film called The Hero, earned him the Lifetime Achievement Award as Best Young Director and subsequently the Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival.

Bill Duke is now producing and directing independent projects and content for multiple platforms. These projects serve to focus on morality and redemption, and emphasizing cultural history and family values.

Bill Duke directing Laurence Fishburne during filming of Hoodlum© 1997-United Artists Pictures Inc.

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“Just when you get things planned, life comes along and changes things,” remarked Michael F. Blake. In January 1979, he was set to transfer to CSUN’s Cinema and TV department when he got a call from the makeup department at Universal Studios. For the next 30 years, Michael has worked as a makeup artist on numerous movies and TV productions including Spider-Man 3, Domino, Independence Day, Tough Guys, Soapdish, Strange Days, Magnum, P.I., Happy Days and the upcoming Drag Me To Hell from Spider-Man director Sam Raimi.

As part of the makeup team for the television series, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, he won an Emmy Award in 1998, and received a nomination in the same category as part of the makeup team on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1999.

Prior to that he was a child actor (“One of the few,” he notes, “who never had a run-in with the police or has a reality cable show.”), appearing in such film and TV shows as The Lucy Show, Adam-12, Kung-Fu, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Munsters, One More Train To Rob, The Red Skelton Show and Bonanza. The son of character actor Larry Blake (High Noon, Sunset Blvd., 7 Brides for 7 Brothers), Michael’s love for the history of the film and TV industry soon morphed into writing. His three books on silent screen actor Lon Chaney are considered the definitive works on the life and career of the actor. He was the special consultant for Kevin Brownlow’s documentary, Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000) for the Turner Classic Movies cable channel. Michael has been a guest speaker for Chaney retrospectives in New York and Italy, as well as providing audio commentaries for several Chaney films released on DVD by Warner Home Video. A respected film historian, Michael has authored two other books relating to the cinema. His Code of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns: High Noon, Shane and The Searchers was praised for its “focus and combination of passion and scholarship,” while Hollywood and the O.K. Corral was noted for its “lively read that blends Western and film history.” Michael jokingly claims when he had his mid-life crisis, he “did something really crazy. I went back to school to get a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree.” He graduated from CSUN’s Department of Cinema and Television Arts in 2001 with an emphasis in Media Theory and Criticism, before going on to UCLA to complete his Master’s Degree. Between makeup assignments, Michael is currently at work on a book about John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy.

Michael F. Blake

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Entertainment

Tonight’s reception entertainment is provided by The Tim Russ Band.

TIM RUSS has been working within the entertainment industry for the past thirty years. His talents encompass a wide spectrum of the performing arts including composing, music (guitar & vocals), writing, directing, voice-over and producing. Mr. Russ received his B.S. in Theater from St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX) and completed one year of post graduate work in theater at Illinois State University.

Tim has performed as a musician for over twenty-seven years, playing bass, acoustic and lead guitars as well as solo vocals. His musical talents are showcased on three CD’s currently distributed through iTunes and CD Baby.

As an actor, Mr. Russ has worked in a cross section of films and television. His film credits include: Live Free or Die Hard, The ‘O’ in Ohio, Star Trek: Generations, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He has had series regular roles on The Highwayman, The People Next Door, Star Trek-Voyager, and ABC’s Samantha Who. He has also appeared in numerous stage plays including the original Los Angeles premier of Dreamgirls.

As a writer/producer, Mr. Russ currently shared the helm in the production of the feature East of Hope Street, which won “Best Feature Film” and “Best Actress” on the festival circuit, and was released theatrically in the U.S. He was the recipient of the Sony Innovator’s Award for a commercial he produced entitled The Zone.

Mr. Russ has also entered the TV/Film directing arena with credits including Star Trek: Voyager, The FBI Files, Psychic Witness, Roddenberry on Patrol, and the feature film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. He has just written and directed a recently released DVD collection of short stories entitled Frame of Mind.

Tim has expanded his performing talents to include voice-over. His recent V.O. credits include; “HOTWIRE.COM,” 6 audio books, and videogames. Most recently, Mr. Russ co-produced a musical children’s audio book project entitled Bugsters, which won the National Parenting Award, and will be featured on the playlist for the Fisher Price Mp3. Bugsters was also published in 2007 as a hard cover book with Woods N’ Water Press.

The Tim Russ Band

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Tag

Tag–– running time: 18 min. / 35 mm ––

Princess Grace Award

Castulo Castulo GuerraRamiro Ramiro SegoviaRene (Castulo’s Wife) Evelina FernandezVictor (Ramiro’s Dad) Pepe SernaLuz (Ramiro’s Girlfriend) Esperanza America IbarraSpeedy (Wheelchair Bound) Jonathan HernandezCesar (Crew Leader) Sandro RodriguezSheriff Tracy Moore

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A retired Vietnam Veteran (Castulo) from East L.A., discovers that his garage has been tagged with graffiti one morning. Getting no help from the local authorities, he is committed to bringing the culprits to justice himself. He confronts a group of local youths, one of whom happens to be the son (Ramiro) of his longtime friend from the neighborhood (Victor). Ramiro happens to be a talented and inspiring Graffiti artist with a special gift for the art. He struggles between doing the right thing and remaining true to his friends.

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TagProducers

Lorena AcevedoFernanda Bretas

Karla EscobarJavier Roman

Writer / DirectorHenry “Heno” Fernandez

Director of PhotographyChristopher Arthur Saul

1st Assistant CameraMichael Tien

Steven Ty

Camera OperatorAlejandro Salinas-Albrecht

1st Assistant DirectorBrian Halopoff

Unit Production ManagerFernada Bretas

EditorsJacob Murray

Kevin Di’ValerioMaggie Perez

GafferGregory Macias Jr.

SoundAmi Seeger

Tomohito Shindo

Crew

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I Do

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The Arri 35mm Project–– running time: 12 min. / 35 mm ––

Young Marcos Kenneth CorteYoung Kim Lia JohnsonKim Cody ElamMarcos Robert RenderosColombia Liz ValenteIris Cynthia SiloreyEdgar Rene NapoliPepito Joel RamosPriest John WelshOrderly Damon EvansChaplain David BaumgardnerElvis Impersonator Alan Katz

they were kids, Marcos and Kim have dreamed of getting married. And now its going to happen ... unless a bitter feud between their mothers gets in the way.

At the altar, the mothers engage in ridiculous antics to stop the wedding, landing the groom in the hospital! The stakes are raised as a failed attempt to elope leads Marcos and Kim back to the hospital for a second time.

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Thinking fast, the couple recruits some unlikely helpers in a third attempt to wed. As the ceremony is interrupted yet again, Marcos and Kim lay down the law.

Since

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I Do and I D

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Writer/Director/ProducerTerri Ann G. Driggs

(818) [email protected]

ProducersDavid Goodman

(818) 825-5896 [email protected]

Jacobo N. Ventura(626) 627-5042

[email protected]

J. Daniel Geddis(619) 606-1713

[email protected]

CinematographerShane Tortolani


SoundKevin Reeves(626) 497-1265

[email protected]

Blake Christian

EditorsMiguel Ramirez


Aldo [email protected]

Set DesignJohn Fincher

[email protected]

Script SupervisionAnne Mureau

[email protected]

Crew

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Octavius Guy Perry [email protected]

Gino Joseph Avery [email protected]

Delissa Christina Aimerito [email protected]

Gino’s Mother Audrey Fiorini [email protected]

The Red Clown Zack Laliberte [email protected]

The Green Clown Alex Sanborn [email protected]

The Priest Peter James King [email protected]

Sinclair “The Sex Worker’ Sinclair Chase [email protected]

The Sounds of SilenceTh

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A young deaf boy learns to overcome his disability and communicate through the art of mime when a depression-era troupe of circus performers named Der Zirkuz Des Octavius and The Sounds of Silence begin performing at the market street. Come watch the show... come see the people... come hear the sounds.

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The Sounds of SilenceDirectors

Joseph Isaias Umana (Mise-en-scene)

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Shirley Ji -Young Kim (Performances)

[email protected]

WriterJoseph Isaias Umana

ProducersAndrew Adams

[email protected]

Anthony [email protected]

Kelley [email protected]

Co-ProducersDaniel Siyoum

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Chauncey [email protected]

Cinematographers Ryan Carmody

[email protected]

Masaki [email protected]

Casting DirectorTamara Sibley

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Production Designer/Art Director/Set Designer

Joe [email protected]

Film EditorsDavid Barnes

[email protected]

Angela [email protected]

Devin Schiro [email protected]

Assistant DirectorRichard [email protected]

Script SupervisorAnne Mureau

[email protected]

Camera OperatorDan Jagels

[email protected]

1st A.C.Morgan Anderson

[email protected]

Andy [email protected]

2nd A.C.Evan Wilhelm

[email protected]

Rob [email protected]

Vicki [email protected]

Ryan [email protected]

Key GripsMatt Rodriguez

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Mario [email protected]

GaffersMatt Conrad

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Alex Salinas [email protected]

Sound Mixing/Sound DesignDaniel Cathers

[email protected]

Evan [email protected]

Crew

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The Arri 35mm Project–– running time: 16 min. / 35 mm ––

Undying Love is a Zombie Musical Comedy Love Story. It’s a genre spoof that lyrically mocks the conventions of the cliché zombie film, while at the same time, engaging in every one of those clichés. This lovely tale proves that true love can conquer all adversity... including the zombie related kind.

Casey Pamela Rykwalder (615) 579–2754

Adam Jesse Seann Atkinson (773) 355–0528

Stephanie Amanda Fink (323) 873–7281

Matt Matthew Herrmann (818) 487–8880

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Undying Love

Writer/Director/ComposerBrian Halopoff

[email protected]

ProducersKira D. Foltz

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Fernanda [email protected]

Angela [email protected]

Prod. CoordinatorSean Penberthy

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1st A.D.Karla Escobar

[email protected]

2nd A.D.Jerry Guerrero

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Script SupervisorPolina Pavlovsky

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Set DesignerMark Beach

[email protected]

Sound DesignerAllan Giron

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Sound TechniciansRobert Julian

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Tristan [email protected]

Christina [email protected]

Erikson [email protected]

Dance ChoreographerKimberly Wilson

[email protected]

EditorCody Urban

[email protected]

CrewCinematographer

Matt [email protected]

Camera OperatorC.J. LongHammer

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1st A.C.Nate Johnson

[email protected]

2nd A.C.Evan Wilhelm

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Film LoaderTerri Ann G. [email protected]

SPFX SupervisorRenato A. Hernandez [email protected]

Production DesignerNader Elnaka

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Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Howard

Ronnie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brett Lee Alexander

Ronnie’s Mom . . . . . . . . . . . Cassie Maloney

Nurse Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nikki Washburn

First Mom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kari Kjeldseth

First Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Jacques

Second Mom . . . . . . . . . . . . Jadi Stuart

Orphans and Students . . . . . Madison Nicole AlexanderJoey EvensonZac EvensonMaddy EvensonDelaney HarringtonEsabeau HarringtonMolly HeenanTucker Inman

The depression has hit hard and many are feeling the strain of poverty. A young mother, too young to care for her eight-year-old son, abandons him at an orphanage in Bozeman, Montana where the caretaker, Warren, drifts through life alone.

With the arrival of Ronnie, Warren rediscovers something that’s been missing in his life… hope. As disappointments mount, Warren and Ronnie grow close and come to rely on one another as their only true family. One stormy night, Ronnie is severely beaten by an adoptive family. With grit, Warren applies for protective custody, but, in an unforeseen turn of events, the state removes Ronnie from the orphanage.

CAST

Bozeman, Montana

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Family Pieces

From Writer & Director Ryan Close:

The opportunity to write and direct Family Pieces has been an overwhelmingly posi-tive and life altering experience. It has taken a lot of sacrifice and hard work from such a large group of people, and I truly am thankful for the opportunity. The sheer size of the production for Family Pieces, and the fact that the film was shot on location in Bozeman, Montana made it a big undertaking for a student film, but the production team and I were determined to make this film a reality.

Our first day of production was a nightmare… plain and simple. We went to sleep with temperatures in the mid seventies, and rose to a foot of fresh snow spread out like frosting over the ground. But the shoot had to continue, and we met the challenge head on. Throughout the week, weather fluctuated constantly, and the cast and crew became accustomed to me asking for five minutes to myself so I could rewrite sections of the script in order to keep continuity. It was only in postproduction that we realized that the snow and ever-changing weather was a blessing in disguise. Montana added so much to the film.

This film has taught me one main principle… love your work and always work hard.

Writer / DirectorRyan Close

ProducersRachel BlavinAlex Sparer

Kamell Allaway Jr.

Executive ProducersRyan Close

David Michael Yohe

CinematographerAdam Cohen

Editor Johnnie Martinez

1st Assistant DirectorStephen NelsonTravis D. Martin

2nd Assistant DirectorChiaki Yanagimoto

Production Sound MixerEric Capella

Camera A OperatorSimon England

1st Assistant CameraThomas Rose

Camera B Operator Collin Cates

GafferVong Chea

Electrician Chris Walters

Key GripBobby Woo

Best Boy Grip Johnnie Martinez

GripHarry Souders

2nd Unit Director David Michael Yohe

CinematographerSimon England

Camera OperatorCollin Cates

First Assistant CameraThomas Rose

Key GripJohnnie Martinez

Wardrobe Belinda Carreno

Script Supervisor Monika Santucci

Post Production SupervisorsRyan Close

Johnnie Martinez

First Assistant EditorGrant Kohrmann

Second Assistant EditoJoshua Daggs

Rerecording MixerMichael Kalifa

Foley ArtistMichael Kalifa

EPK Kate Ryan

Crew

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Arri, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of motion picture equip-ment and cameras, ini-tiated a new program with the CSUN Depart-ment of Cinema and Television Arts in the Fall Semester of 2005. The special program, called The Arri 35mm Project, provides the op-portunity each semes-ter for a selected senior level project in the Film Production Option to be produced in the 35mm motion picture format. Arri, Inc. will provide a new 35mm Arricam mo-tion picture camera and lighting units for use by the selected group while other production servic-es, post production services, and equipment are provided by various leading industry vendors such as Eastman Kodak, Fuji, Fotokem, J.L. Fisher, Mole Richardson, Clairmont Camera, Sequoia Illumination, Cinerep and Illumina-tion Dynamics.

The Arri 35mm Project also has a mentoring element. A professional cin-ematographer and member of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.), with an impressive body of work, will mentor those students in-volved in the photography of the selected motion picture. Undying Love and I Do and I Don’t, screening tonight, are participants in The Arri 35mm Project program.

The Arri 35mm Project

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Department of Cinema and Television Arts

www.ctva.csun.edu

Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and CommunicationCalifornia State University, Northridge

The Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge provides students with academic and professional training for careers in the entertainment industries and educational/corporate media fields.

Options/Minor: Film Production

Screenwriting Media Theory and Criticism

Television Production Radio Production Multimedia Production

Electronic Media Management

Electronic Media Management Minor

Faculty: Eric Edson, Bob Gustafson, Michael Hoggan, Temma Kramer, Alexis Krasilovsky, Frederick Kuretski, Kenneth Portnoy, Jared Rappaport, Quinn Saunders, Mary Schaffer, John Schultheiss,

Jon Stahl, Nate Thomas, Thelma Vickroy, Dianah Wynter.

The major prepares students for creative and management careers in commercial or public radio, television, film, and multimedia positions, as well as related scholarly areas. The program is strongly committed to a balance between theoretical and practical education.

Degrees Offered: B.A. in Cinema and Television Arts (seven options and one minor) M.A. in Screenwriting

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The facilities in Manzanita Hall offer CTVA students the opportunity to produce films in a professional environment.

16mm cameras (Arriflex, Eclair, Cinema Products, and Bolex), grip equipment, and portable lighting, are housed and maintained by the engineering staff and are available for checkout to film students.

The Film Stage includes a complete lighting package with dimmers. A J.L. Fisher 10 Dolly with accessories is kept on the stage for use in student projects. The 40’ x 56’ production area is fully sound proofed and encircled with two movable cycloramas in blue and black. The adjoining scene shop is available for construc-tion and storage of sets and props.

A two-wall green-screen hard cyc cove is available for special effects produc-tion in an adjoining Insert Stage.

Post-production editing is done using either Avid or Final Cut Pro non-linear editing stations. These are available for student use in both bullpen and private suite environments. Senior film production students edit in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Senior Film Editing Suite which houses an Avid Media Composer Adrenaline System.

Grants are available through the department for com-pletion money to conform negatives to the decision list and to create release prints.

For titling and special efffects students use the Paul Hunter Visual Effects/Film Graphics Room, featuring state-of-the-art digital animation and titling creation utilizing 3-D Max, Combustion, and After Effects soft-ware programs.

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The Film Sound Mixing Facility features an ADR/Foley Stage complex and a multitrack digital sound mixing room with Pro Tools technology and rear screen projection.

Each year, the best works produced by CTVA film students are showcased at a special screening at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Industry representatives are invited to evaluate the work.

Students in the CTVA television program work in a 40’ x 60’ television studio with adjacent Scene Shop. The television studio contains 4 state-of-the-art Hitachi Z3000 digital television cameras with teleprompters, an extensive lighting package with dimmers, and movable blue, white, and black cycloramas.

Overlooking the studio is the Video Control Room which contains a Ross Digital Switcher with digital video effects. The adjacent Sound Room is housed with a Sony digital audio board, a digicart machine, and instant replay capability.

The Master Control Room has a character generator and still store and supports recording and playback in Betacam SP, DVC Pro, DVCAM, DV, Umatic, and VHS video formats.

Television students can also check out from the Equipment Room an array of portable digital cameras, as well as lights and support equipment, are available for field work .

Television students edit in Individual Editing Suites, with Final Cut Pro being the preferred system. Completed programs are regularly broadcast on the local cable stations.

The Cinematheque is an innovative year-round film screening program housed in The Armer Theater, a state-of-the-art 130 seat motion picture theater in Manzanita Hall. The only venue of its kind in the San Fernando Valley, the Cinematheque presents thematically designed retrospectives of classic films, as well as aesthetically significant contemporary releases––in conjunction with the appearance of featured guest artists for lectures and panel discussions.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $759,865 in financial grants to film schools and non-profit organizations at its annual Installation Luncheon honoring the organization’s 2008-2009 slate of officers.

“Despite last January’s cancellation of the Annual Golden Globe Awards due to the Writers Guild strike that curtailed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s income, we’re delighted to honor our ongoing

commitment to support entertainment industry-related film school and non-profit organizations,” said Jorge Camara, HFPA President. “Over the past several years, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Foundation has presented more than $7.5 million in financial grants to dozens of film schools and non-profit organizations.”

Celebrities attending the event to announce grants included Aaron Eckhart and Jon Hamm who announced grants to California State University, Northridge Department of Cinema and Television Arts; American Film Institute; CalArts School of Film/Video; California State University, Long Beach Department of Film and Electronic Arts; UCLA School of Theatre,

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Film and Television; New York University [Tisch School of the Arts]; North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation; and Columbia University School of the Arts. Celebrities attending the event included Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Rosario Dawson , Dana Delany , Dakota Fanning, Chris Messina, Elizabeth Pena , and Rosie Perez .

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is known worldwide for its Golden Globe Awards at the end of January every year. However, in between those televised gala events, the HFPA members—all working journalists—spend the rest of the year interviewing film and television personalities and telling the world about various aspects of show business.

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Historical Context. It all began in the early 1940s, a time riddled with contradictions. The world was in flames, Pearl Harbor had drawn America into the World War, atomic fission had succeeded, soldiers and civilians were dying by the millions—and in Hol-lywood, strangely enough, creativity was at an all-time high. Audiences, hungry for diversions, were seeking out films honoring figures of heroic dimensions, stories offering inspiration and entertainment to those who were coping with pain, loss, fear, worry, and despair. The release of the film Casablanca coincided with the Allied occupation of Casablanca (1942). In the midst of this, a handful of non-American journalists tried to get reports through to their home countries and began helping each other, sharing contacts and material.

Already in 1928, the Hollywood Association of Foreign Correspondents (HAFCO) had been formed, and, in 1935, The Foreign Press Society appeared briefly. Both termi-nated abruptly, although HAFCO had a fleeting moment of fame when celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford showed up at the HAFCO International Ball at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. One thing was clear: the idea of banding to-gether was not only healthy but necessary. In 1943, a number of respected foreign journalists started the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, instigated by the cor-

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respondent for the British Daily Mail. In 1950, a group of work-ing newspaper men and women, most of whom were founding members, withdrew, and formed the Foreign Press Association with strict rules for membership. The two associations existed side by side and frequently interacted until 1955, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association united actively working reporters from both groups, now with definite guidelines and requirements for membership, active and affiliate.

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The California State University, Northridge Department of Cinema and Television Arts would like to es-pecially thank Ms. Dagmar Dunlevy, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for her continuing dedicated support of our program and students.

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Each year the members are required to present recent by-lined articles for continued active status and participation in the association’s activities, which include more than two hundred annual interview opportunities with leading actors, directors, and writers working in motion pictures and television. There are also set visits, participation in press days in other cities within (and occasionally outside) the United States, as well as film festivals in other countries where one important duty of those attending is to scout for interesting foreign language films to screen for HFPA members; another is to establish cultural exchanges with directors, actors, jurors and fellow journalists around the world. In order to vote on the association’s annual awards, the Golden Globes, members see well over 250 domestic films re-leased each year, along with foreign language films, motion pictures made for television, and prime time television series.

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SPECIAL THANKSThe CSUN Student Film Showcase is made possible through a grant from the CSUN Associated Students Instructionally Related Activities Committee, scholarship awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and with the generous help of the following:

Professor Nate Thomas Showcase Director/Head, Film Production OptionMark Schaubert Showcase Producer

Professor Fred Kuretski Showcase Founder/Professor EmeritusProfessor Temma Kramer Sr. Film Production FacultyProfessor Michael Hoggan Film Production FacultyProfessor Ken Portnoy Film Production FacultyDr. Fred Ginsberg Adjunct Film Production FacultyRichard Ollis Adjunct Film Production FacultyJan Popiden Adjunct Film Production FacultyJoel Krantz Adjunct Film Production FacultyProfessor Jon Stahl Head, Screenwriting OptionProfessor Alexis Krasilovsky Screenwriting FacultyProfessor Jared Rappaport Screenwriting FacultyTom McWilliams Adjunct Screenwriting FacultyProfessor Thelma Vickroy Head, Radio/Television Production OptionsProfessor Mary Schaffer Head, Multimedia Production OptionProfessor Eric Edson Graduate Coordinator, ScreenwritingDr. Robert Gustafson CTVA Department Chair/ Head, Electronic Media Management OptionDr. John Schultheiss Head, Media Theory and Criticism OptionProfessor Elizabeth Sellers Department of MusicProfessor Peter Grego Chair, Department of TheatreBill Taylor Department of Theatre

Dr. Jolene Koester President, California State University, NorthridgeDr. Harry Hellenbrand Provost, California State University, NorthridgeDr. Robert Bucker Dean, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and CommunicationProfessor Karen Kearns Associate Dean, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and CommunicationLaila Asgari Manager, Academic Resources Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and CommunicationAndrea Reinken Development Officer, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication

Carmen Ramos Chandler Director, CSUN News and InformationBrenda Roberts CSUN Public RelationsDavid Crandall Manager, Associated StudentsGailya Brown University Advancement

Mary Hendriks CTVA Administrative AnalystAndrea Marques-Perez CTVA Office StaffKathleen McWilliams CTVA AdviserOlivia Gonzales CTVA Office Staff

Michael Bryant CTVA EngineeringGeorge Johnson CTVA EngineeringWilliam Wilson CTVA EngineeringJoe Schwartz CTVA Engineering David Sonnenschein Sound Design ConsultantMark Woods Cinematography Consultant

Our appreciation is also extended for the support of our student filmmakers by Panavision, Dolby Laboratories, Kodak, Fuji, Magic Film and Video Works, Hugo Post,

Hollywood Intermediate, T & T Opticals, and FilmLA.

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