Mar Elepaño Explained
Mariano "Mar" Elepaño (born 1954) is a Filipino American independent filmmaker, teacher, and has been the production supervisor of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1993.[1]
Elepaño was born and raised in the Philippines. He came to the United States to study film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1975.[2]
Some of his short works of experimental animation (Lion Dance, Pendito, Winter, Burp, and Take 5)[3] were screened at the Asian American International Film Festival, New York, New York July 27, 1989 and at Filmex: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Short Film) March 14–30, 1979.[4] [5] In addition, Winter was screened at the Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists Festival in 2006.[6] Rolando B. Tolentino in Animation in Asia and the Pacific described Elepano as "the prime [Filipino] mover of computer animation" in the United States (p. 177).[7]
Elepaño was a Fulbright Scholar in 2001. In 2007, he received a "California Council for the Humanities Grant Award to the Khmer Girls in Action (KGA)" which helped "teenage Cambodian American girls in the Long Beach [...] develop digital narratives about their identity and their connection or disconnection to their parents' generation."[8] [9] He has also been conducting workshops for Visual Communications (VC), "a Los Angeles-based Asian American community media arts group since 1986."
Awards
Publications
- Labtalk in Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts, edited by Russell Leong. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1992.[11]
References
- John A. Lent, ed. Animation in Asia and the Pacific, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Tolento, Rolando B. "Identity and Difference in Filipino/A American Media Arts." In Screening Asian Americans edited by Peter X. Feng. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
External links
Notes and References
- http://cinema.usc.edu/faculty/elepano-mariano.htm USC Cinema - Faculty/Staff » Mariano (Mar) Elepano
- http://anim.usc.edu/faculty/mar.html# USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110520055538/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/431881/Lion-Dance-Pendito-Winter-Burp-Take-5/overview Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5 - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - The New York Times
- https://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/113710/Lion+Dance%2FPendito%2FWinter%2FBurp%2FTake+5.html?dataSet=1 Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5, Mar Elepano - Variety Profiles
- Web site: LION DANCE/PENDITO/WINTER/BURP/TAKE 5"> . 2008-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716160229/http://afifest.studiosystem.com/project.aspx?projectid=113710 . 2011-07-16 . dead .
- https://archive.today/20120803104003/http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/uclascreening Abstraction and Visual Music — iota
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=TNJulkqR774C&q=%22Mar+Elepano%22+&pg=PA177. Animating the Nation: Animation and Development in the Philippines. Animation in Asia and the Pacific. 0253340357. Tolentino. Rolando B.. John A. Lent. 2001. Indiana University Press . - See page at the Internet Archive
- http://www-cntv.usc.edu/about/announcements/announcement_2007082128641.htm USC Cinema - About » Announcements » Major Grant
- http://www.gazettes.com/cambodianfilm06192008.html cambodianfilm
- http://anim.usc.edu/faculty/mar.html USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty
- http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=68 Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts
