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PROGRAM IN FILM AND VIDEO Four-year BFA, three-year MFA
ALUMNI of the School of Film/Video include: Program in Film and Video
Anna Biller
(Film/Video–Art MFA 93)
Beth Bird (MFA 03) Q. Allan Brocka (MFA 01) Bill Brown (MFA 97) Sean Daniel (BFA 73) Dane Davis (BFA 81) Rodney Evans (MFA 96) David Fenster (MFA 04) Robert Fenz (MFA 02) William E. Jones (MFA 90) Carole Kim (MFA 01) Gina Kim (MFA 99)
Hyunkyung Kim (MFA 04) Joel Lam (MFA 01) Lin Li (MFA 01) James Mangold (BFA 85) M. David Mullen (MFA 91) Akosua Adoma Owusu
(Film/Video–Art MFA 08)
Deborah Stratman (MFA 95) Tamara Tracz (MFA 02) Naomi Uman (MFA 98) Christopher Wilcha
(MFA 98)
Curtis Winter (MFA 09)
Program in Experimental Animation
Peter Chung (81) Eric Darnell (MFA 90) Paul Demeyer (MFA 77) Stephen Hillenburg
(MFA 92)
Glen Keane (74) Jung-Ho Kim (MFA 04) Mark Kirkland (BFA 78) Amy Kravitz (MFA 86) Mark Osborne (BFA 92)
Joanna Priestley (MFA 85) Christine Panushka
(MFA 88)
Kathy Rose (MFA 74) Jen Sachs (MFA 01) Henry Selick (MFA 77) Steve Subotnick
(MFA 86, BFA 84)
Brian Tan (BFA 05) David Wilson (MFA 76) Ben Zelkowicz (MFA 02)
Program in Character Animation
Henry Anderson (BFA 88) Mark Andrews (BFA 93) Jeremy Bernstein (BFA 03) Brad Bird (76) Dave Bossert (BFA 83) Tim Burton (79) Brenda Chapman
John Musker (77) Randy Myers (92) Mike Nguyen (bfa 88) Shane Prigmore (99) Carlos Ramos (BFA 97) Andy Schuhler (BFA 98) Andrew Stanton
(BFA 87)
(BFA 87)
Pete Docter (BFA 90) Ralph Eggleston (86) Morgan Kelly (BFA 03) Chris Larson (BFA 92) John Lasseter (BFA 79) Craig McCracken (92)
Gary Trousdale (82) J.J. Villard (BFA 04) Penn Ward (BFA 05) Kirk Wise (CER 85) Niki Yang (BFA 03) Milla Zeltzer (BFA 03)
This intensive program has been designed for independent artists for whom film- and digital imagemaking is a personal calling and not merely a mode of production. The program supports an unparalleled breadth of work—from personal and political documentaries to non-traditional narratives, from lyrical and abstract films to new media. Students acquire a full range of technical and practical skills, learn to think critically about their chosen media, and work to develop a precise language for personal articulation.
PROGRAM IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION Four-year BFA, three-year MFA
Set up for adventurous artists who regard animation as a dynamic, ever-evolving art form, the Program in Experimental Animation offers a framework in which students develop and refine aesthetically progressive concepts and professional art practices. The program cultivates a very wide variety of skills—including 2-D, CG and stop-motion, compositing, and the integration of digital and traditional techniques—and makes it possible for graduates to position themselves as independent innovators who can shape the future direction of the art of animation.
PROGRAM IN CHARACTER ANIMATION Four-year BFA only
Recognized worldwide, this program provides comprehensive artistic and technical training in the art of story animation using both traditional and CG tools. The curriculum is sequential in structure, beginning with life drawing, design, hand-drawn character animation, CG character animation, and storytelling principles, and each year adding depth and complexity to performance, acting, and visual development. Students in the program develop professional-caliber portfolios, allowing them to go on to careers ranging from major studio animation and independent filmmaking to gaming and graphic novels.
FILM DIRECTING PROGRAM Three-year MFA only
This graduate program for independent filmmaking enables students to develop innovative approaches to storytelling based on examining the broad spectrum of narrative cinema. The curriculum covers the fundamental aesthetic and technical components of film directing, with additional emphasis placed on screenwriting, acting, scene study, and short plays. In the process, students learn to work with actors, develop visual strategies, and hone methods for shaping stories—both invented and adapted—that are emotionally true and dramatically credible.
Film Directing Program
Katie Ackerman (MFA 00) Asitha Amereseker
(MFA 98)
Lorette Bayle (MFA 99) Scott Cummings (MFA 07) Darine El-Khatib
(MFA 05)
Markus Engel (MFA 98) Timuçin Esen (MFA 01) Jonathan Evans (MFA 02) Rachel Goldberg (MFA 00) Mark Gould (MFA 98) Darren Herczeg (MFA 06) Xuan Jiang (MFA 07) Joon Kwon Kim (MFA 02)
Yun-Cheol Kim (MFA 04) Cy Kukenbaker (MFA 04) Waleed Moursi (MFA 03) David Nordstrom (MFA 05) Gregorios Rentis (MFA 10) April Scott-Goss (MFA 99) Maneesh Sharma (MFA 04) Young Mo Son (MFA 09) Reginald Spangler
(MFA 02)
Jigyasa Taneja (MFA 03) Tariq Tapa (MFA 08) Antonio Tibaldi (MFA 87) Andrew Tsao (MFA 90)
See filmvideo.calarts.edu/alumni.
Concentration in Integrated Media The MFA Program in Film and Video and the MFA Program in Experimental Animation offer a supplemental concentration, via the institute-wide Center for Integrated Media (CIM), for students who wish to combine filmmaking and animation with an exploration of interdisciplinary practices, participatory media, and interactive technologies