Mar Elepano

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]

Mar Elepaño
Born1954
Philippines
AwardsFulbright Award (2001)

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] John Lent 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

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.

Notes
  1. 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. Lent, John A. (2001). Animation in Asia and the Pacific. ISBN 0253340357.
  8. 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. 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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