Mar Elepaño

Mar Elepaño
Born
Mariano Elepaño

1954
Philippines
AwardsFulbright 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]

Awards

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Publications

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  • 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

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  • 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.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c USC Cinema - Faculty/Staff » Mariano (Mar) Elepano Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5 - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - The New York Times
  4. ^ Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5, Mar Elepano - Variety Profiles
  5. ^ "LION DANCE/PENDITO/WINTER/BURP/TAKE 5">". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  6. ^ Abstraction and Visual Music — iota
  7. ^ Tolentino, Rolando B. (2001). "Animating the Nation: Animation and Development in the Philippines". In John A. Lent (ed.). Animation in Asia and the Pacific. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253340357. - See page at the Internet Archive
  8. ^ a b USC Cinema - About » Announcements » Major Grant Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ cambodianfilm Archived 2008-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ a b USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts
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