I am a student in the School of Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts. I was excited and inspired by a recent screening of films by Djibril Diop Mambety and Ousmene Sembene. I really appreciated this view not only into the lives of the characters, but into another culture and its cinema. My dream this summer is to go to Senegal and help a filmmaker.
Berenice Reynaud, faculty member in the film department at CalArts, gave me the name of this list. She suggested that I might here post my interest and learn about opportunities for work/apprenticeship/internship. My highschool French teacher, Mamadou Gueye, suggested the Embassy in Washington, DC as another place to start for leads. (I went to the Quaker School, Sidwell Friends, and studied with Mamadou, who is from Dakkar). I will contact them shortly. I have also gotten the name of the French attache Patrick Devautour. I intend to send him a letter with my CV. Quickly, I grew up in Washington, DC, went to college at Harvard University where I created my own major - Cultural Geography & Landscape Studies, and lived and worked for two years in New York City before coming here to Cal Arts. I am an MFA 1 in the Department of Experimental Animation. I am interested in abstract animation and live action. I speak French (proficiently - I took the highschool AP course and test, studied French literature in college, and lived for a summer in Veyrier du Lac, France). I would appreciate any leads you might have. This would be a very exciting opportunity to learn more about another place, another culture, and film as it is made there. If this does not work out for this summer, I hope to arrange something for the future. Please let me know if I can give you any more information or if I can be of help. Thank you! Sincerely, Kate Brown School of Film and Video Department of Experimental ANimation California Institute of the Arts 24700 Mc Bean Parkway BOX FK 25 Valencia, CA 91355 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (323) 422 3112 --- You are currently subscribed to african-cinema-conference as: [archive@jab.org] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
