1986, 19TH ANNUAL HUMBOLDT' INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
Crew Members
Coordinators: Suzanne Blais and Pilar “Anarca” Rodriguez
Faculty Advisor: Ann Skinner-Jones
Poster Design: Bernice Kagan
Film Installations: Deborah Fort
Library Case: Anne Mendelson
Judges
Christine Choy
Born in Shangai, of a Russian woman and a Korean man, Christine’s personal background is as important as her work on film. She lived in China for twelve years and then in South Korea until she got a scholarship to study in the United States (1965).
After two years she began to be aware that art was the area she wanted to get into, but because of economic considerations, she went into architecture. In late ’68 she applied to Washington University where she first got introduced to filmmaking. She had been hired to translate Leonard Henry’s solar energy’s theories into three dimensional designs both on acetate and in small model form. Then students made a film, animating it. She watched the whole process and became fascinated; however, she felt that filmmaking was only for rich kids.
She finally decided to make documentary films after seeing “Seventeen Parallel” by Joris Iven. In 1971 she joined Newsreel (she was the first non-white in the entire group). Newsreel was one of the ’60s radical organizations; it produced films every week. They developed camera originals and showed them in the community to provide an alternative viewpoint on the Vietnam war, minority issues, civil rights, etc. By 1974, all white people had led out of the group. And Christine Choy became one of the founders of Third World Newsreel.
Her Films include: Adopted Son: the Murder of Vincent Chin 1985, Namibia Independence Now! 1984-5, Mississippi Triangle 1982, Bitter Sweet Survival 1981, To Love, Honor and Obey… 1980, Inside Women Inside 1978.
Michael Rudnick
He lives in San Francisco and since 1971 has produced. 27 films, which have been screened at more than 70 theatres, museums, festivals and universities, and on television in the United States and Internationally. He has been honored with 20 awards, including the James D. Phelan Award in Art (1982), the first such award ever given to a filmmaker; the S.E.C.A. Award (1984) from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. 1973, 1978 and 1983. (He juried the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1985).
He’s had several one man shows and his films have been
included in numerous group shows and reviewed in such
publications as New York Times, American Film Magazine, and Artweek. From 1982 to 184 Michael was a visiting lecturer on Film and the Art Department of the University of California, Davis.
He was elected to the Board of Directors: of the Canyon Cinema Cooperative and was codirector of the Filmmakers Festival in 1983. He is an organizer and current administrator of the No Nothing Cinema, a theatre showcasing independent films in San Francisco. Recently, he’s been awarded with the NEA -Rockefeller Foundation Interdisciplinary Arts Grant 1986.
Some of his films include: Beam Drop 1985, A Tooth Film for Ruby 1985, Portico 1984, Non Legato 1984, You Won You Lost 1984, Wazoo Oiseau 1983, Panorama 1982, The Compound 1981, Microseries 1-5 1977-78, You Are Christine Dietrich 1977, Coming Attraction 1971.
Guest Artist
Lucy OstranderShe is a documentary producer and director based in Seattle, Washington. Her recent film Witness to Revolution, a half hour film on the life of the American journalist Anna Louise Strong, served as her Master’s thesis at Stanford University; this film won a student Academy Award, a Nissan Focus Award and has been awarded a Cine Gold Eagle. For the production of this film. Ms. Ostrander traveled to Beijing, being the first American student to be invited to work with the China Film Co-Production Corporation.
Lucy Ostrander will show Witness to Revolution and her most recent work: East of Occidental: The History of Seattle’s Chinatown.