News Release
April 5, 2005
DSA Student Film Featured In Danville International Children's Film Festival May 20-22
"Black and White," a movie produced by four students from the Denver School of the Arts, will be featured at the Danville International Children's Film Festival Friday, May 20 through Sunday, May 22 in Danville, Calif.
The students created the film using four different directors and three different styles of film: 2D animation, 3D Clay Animation and live action. The movie is based on the book "Black and White" written by David Macaulay and is four intertwining stories. The stories relate to each other not only through physical forms, but through the themes as well. They are parallel in structure, each focusing on an innocent activity being created from four different points of view.
Junior Fred Kolouch is the executive director of this film. He animated one of the sequences and also oversaw the productions of the other three. He has been a filmmaker for three years and has made documentaries, animations and fictional films.
Freshman John Komdat directed one of the live-action segments of the film. He has been in the film program for three years and has expertise primarily in live-action.
Junior Greg Stanwood directed the other live-action sequence in the film. He has been in the film program for three years but has worked with filmmaking for much longer. His primary expertise is in fictional writing and live-action filmmaking.
Junior Fred Thulson was in charge of directing and animating the clay animation sequences. He had been in the film program for two years and has plenty of experience in adapting screenplays and animation.
For more information, access www.dicff.org or call Ed Glassman, 720-424-1773, at the Denver School of the Arts, 7111 Montview Blvd.