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And
the Rosebud Award goes to …
‘Ups
and Downs’ from Cal State L.A.
Los Angeles,
CA – For their depiction of an animated soul rising above
mundane conformity in their film ‘Ups and Downs,’ two Cal State L.A.
students received a Rosebud Award, one of the top honors at
the
2008 CSU Media Arts Festival, held recently at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo,
CA. Two other Cal State L.A. films also received honors—in the
experimental and animation categories.
The annual festival showcases exceptional student film and
video projects from throughout the CSU system’s 23 campuses. A panel of
industry experts judged 175 entries and chose 35 finalists for the award
competition within nine categories: animation, documentary,
experimental, interactive, music video, narrative, television, feature
screenplay, and short screenplay.
Here are this year’s award-winning films by CSULA students:
Rosebud Award, first place
(television category)
By art majors Ian Lollar of San Dimas and Tyler Andersen of
Diamond Bar, it presents (in a movie trailer) an alternate future where
efficiency reigns supreme. The nearly two-minute film took roughly three
months to produce (amid other academic priorities). Posted on YouTube
Dec. 13, 2007, it had been viewed more than 400 times by Nov. 20, 2008.
It ends with the question: “Life is about rules. I mean…. What’s the
worst that could happen?” The students received a $500 cash prize; $250
was also awarded to the Art Department at Cal State L.A.
Lollar and
Andersen were advised by Art Professor Tony Longson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZencnqO3Y
Second place
(experimental category)
By television and film majors Luz Reyes of Los Angeles and
Huiwen Tsao of Alhambra, it follows a pair of jeans trying to walk its
way home—in stop-motion footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvJl8tpzGw
Fourth place
(animation category)
Directed by graduate art student Dal Lim Park of Los
Angeles, it features an explanation of Kant’s hypothesis of galaxies.
More than a dozen other students contributed to the project, including
lead animator Javier Zumacta.
The film is a product of Cal State L.A.’s Sci-Vi Lab (http://sci-vi.calstatela.edu).
Formally called the Integrated Training Pipeline for Scientific
Visualization and supported by the National Science Foundation, the lab
is a collaboration between Cal State L.A. and NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXWuvMoLWzI
CSU Summer Arts established the Media Arts Festival in 1990 to
provide CSU students an opportunity to present their works for critical
review. The festival also helps students transition from producing
films, videos, and interactive media in university classes to working in
related industries.
For more information on the festival or the winning entries in
each category, go to
www.mediaartsfestival.org
or
www.csusummerarts.org.
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Student films ‘Jean,’ ‘The Island Universes’ also garner
high honors at CSU Media Arts Festival
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