Mar Elepaño | |
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Born | Mariano Elepaño 1954 |
Awards | Fulbright Award (2001) |
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." [1]
Mar Elepaño | |
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Born | Mariano Elepaño 1954 |
Awards | Fulbright Award (2001) |
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." [1]