David Drori • drori.david@gmail.com

Education
MFA Film 2011, Syracuse University
BA English; Minor Political Science, Western Washington University

Research Interests
Stock footage, graphic design, surveillance, astronomy, family, architecture, improvisation, and psychology.

I am actively engaged in exploring varied fields of independent filmmaking, involving multiple practices and forms. Ideas within my current work examine the burden of memory as well as elliptically plotted moods within a narrative structure.

Exhibitions
2007
Official Selection; Ellensburg Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA
Official Selection; Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2006
Official Selection; Northwest Projections Film Festival, Bellingham, WA
Official Selection; Triggerstreet.com, Season 3 Film Festival
Editor's Choice; TheDailyReel.com, Top Ten Shorts of 2006
Awards
2007
"Best Love Story," "Nate and Natalie," Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2006
"Best Narrative Short," "Nate and Natalie," Northwest Projections Film Festival, Bellingham, WA

Sook Hyun Kim • skim96@syr.edu

Education
South Korea, Yonsei University, M.A. in Visual Communication
South Korea, Yonsei University, B.A. in Philosophy and Sociology

Research Interests
Since 2005, I made continuously the experimental films include Cosmic Emptiness, My village Kwang-an 3dong(2006), The conversation with Dr. Mouse and The Crossing(2007). This works have various approach in the point of media, video, super 8 film and hand processing film. Even though I have used the different media, the world that I express is similar with each other. It is fragmentized and segmented romantically with the language of image. In the more detailed social territories, my main concern is cultural identity, especially my innate feminity and urban space.

Screenings and Exhibitions
2008 The 8th New Media Festival in Seoul, Korea
2008 Cinema digital Seoul Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2008 Independent Film and Video Maker's Forum, Seoul, Korea
2007 "A Question between Films and Media Art", Andante Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 The 7th New Media Festival in Seoul, Korea, The First Prize
2007 The 33rd Seoul Independent Film Festival, Korea
2007 "Body and Seoul" Exhibition in Yeouido Park, Seoul, Korea
2007 The 4th Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korea
2007 Independent Film and Video Maker's Forum, Seoul, Korea
2007 Experimental film Opera ÔKINORA', Chang Mu Post Theater, Seoul, Korea
2007 "Beyond Document : New Documentary Exhibition", Seoul, Korea
2006 The 32rd Seoul Independent Film Festival, Korea
2006 Asia Culture Forum Ð Visual Working Session, Gwangju, Korea
2006 "Anti-Masculine Biennale" in Incheon, Korea
2006 The 3rd Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korea
2006 "Politics of Record : virtual daughters", Shin Han Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 "They are talkative" Korea Independent Documentary Screening, Seoul, Korea
2006 Feminism Media Art, Ministry of Women Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea
2005 The 5th New Media Festival in Seoul, Korea
2005 The 2nd Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korea

Conferences
2006 , MBC Training Institute, Yangju, Korea.
"A study on identity and political potentiality of "cultural nomads" with special focus on the independent film makers"

2005 , Korean Broadcasting Institute, Seoul, Korea.
"A Study on Korean Girls' Play-Culture Using the Mobile Phone"

2005 , Korean Society for journalism & communication Studies, Yangpyung, Korea.
"Approach to Popular Film Based on Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Stuart Hall"

Claire Ying-Chin Wang • ywang85@syr.edu

Research Interests
Always have a passion for drama, fond of performing arts, film, new media, theatre, photography, modern dance, and literature. Played as an actress in stage drama and short films, modeled for series of photos in the green lapel exhibition. Worked for national cultural center, cts, and pop radio station. Volunteered at humanitarian organization, film festivals, and theatre groups for several years.

Yu-Lun Shih • yushih@syr.edu

Education
MFA Film 2010, Syracuse University, USA
BA Radio and TV 2003, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Research Interests
Personal Documentary, Home Video, Collective Memory, Independent Media, Personal History, Chinese Culture, Globalization and WTO.

Yu-Lun was born in Taiwan. Growing up, he never thought he would become a filmmaker because he did not really appreciate movies until he watched his first non-Hollywood film by Takeshi Kitano his freshman year of college. From that day on, he became interested in the lack of non-Hollywood movies in Taiwanese theaters. The reason behind the absence of non-Hollywood movies in theaters upset him. As a result, he realized that a filmmaker should not just care about his film itself. There is still much more for filmmakers to accomplish.

Exhibitions
2005
Introduction to Music / Experimental MV / 6min
Hohaiyan Music Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2004
Selection / Documentary / 62min
Wushantou Film Festival, TNNUA, Taiwan
Department of Fine Arts, Tunghai University, Taiwan
2003
Have a Nice Trip! / Animation / 13min
Graduation Exhibition, Radio & TV Dept., NCCU, Taiwan
Chinese College Student Video Exhibition, Beijing, China

Awards
2004
1st Prize of the Outstanding Student Award, Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Documentary, TNNUA
2003
Outstanding Student Assistant Award, Broadcasting & TV Center, NCCU

Jinhee Park • jeaniepark30@gmail.com

Education
MFA Film 2010, Syracuse University
BA Mass communication, Visual and Performing Arts, Handong Global University, South Korea

Research Interests
Communication and Culture, Psychoanalysis, Theology, Experimentation of Space, Global Nomads

Artist Statement
The largest part of my life has been in the dark theater interacting with films reflected by light. It is fascinating for me to reconstruct time, space and environment in cinematic reality. In my work visual components embodied by character's consciousness represent unconsciousness along with creating tension between expressionist space and sound. Through traveling different worlds physically and emotionally, I have became a mixture of everywhere as well as I have positioned nowhere as a nomad. My current work is focusing on the sense of disappearing identity yet celebrating it with my visual method.

Exhibitions/Awards
2005
Three Questions about Love
Selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2005
Living the good life
Bronze Award of MBC Viewers Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Screened on MBC Drama TV broadcasting
2004
The beautiful stranger
Bronze Award of Kyung Buk Province Film Contents, Daegu, Korea
2001
Endless waiting
Grand Prize of Han-Dong Digital Short Film Awards, Seoul, Korea
Chosen to be screened at Pusan Independent Film Festival, Pusan, Korea

Elizabeth Greene • eagreene@syr.edu

Elizabeth Greene is a Film MFA candidate in the Transmedia Department at SU. Her work exists primarily in the realm of documentary and experimental video, and often focuses on the African American woman's experience. Elizabeth's work has screened in several venues in the Detroit area, including the Detroit Historical Society, Detroit Docs Film Festival, and the Detroit Film Center.

Elizabeth's goals following graduation are to return to Detroit to work both creatively and supportively with the city's disadvantaged youth.

Ryan Silveira • rsilveir@syr.edu

Ryan Silveira was born and raised in the Bay Area of California, he attended California State University Long Beach where he received his BA in Film and Video Production. During his time there he showed at such venues as The Orange County Museum of Art, the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles and became a regional finalist in the 2006 Student Academy Awards.

Silveira has since went on to continue his studies at Syracuse University, working toward his MFA in Film. He recently held a solo exhibition at The Palace Theater in Syracuse, NY where his project combining film with live performance, American Triptych, debuted. Silveira mixes non-narrative forms with Classical Hollywood conventions, creating tension through expectations in viewing.

JaeHee Lee • jlee123@syr.edu

Education
MFA Film 2009, Syracuse University
BA Theater and Film 2004, summa cum laude, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Artist Statement
As an independent filmmaker, I want to explore the condition of human life and reflect on my sense of value toward it through an alternative cinematic storytelling. By working creatively with image and sound, I always seek for the aesthetic value of cinema. In my film, everything is possible with its leaps in not only cinematic time and space but also reality and fantasy. I hope to share precious moments of life with my audience by making them look back upon their lives through my works.

Filmography
Memento Mori (2008, HD, Color, 33min 37sec, Documentary with fictional elements)
Still Life (2007, Super 16mm/HD, Color, 17min 55sec, Fiction)
Last Summer's Room (2004, 16mm, Color, 17min 25sec, Fiction)
The Time of the Dying (2003, 16mm, Color, 8min 40sec, Fiction)
The Life of My Mother, Jin-soon Lee (2002, DV, Color, 88min, Documentary)
C'est La Vie (2002, 16mm, Color, 21min, Fiction with documentary elements)

Selected Exhibitions and Awards
Malescorto International Short Film Festival, Competition (Italy / Grand Prix)
Monterrey International Film Festival, Competition (Mexico / Grand Prix)
Ko-yang Han-baek Short Film Festival, Competition (Korea / Grand Prix)
Gyeong-sang-buk-do Movie Contents Contest, Competition (Korea / Grand Prix)
Peace Festival - Theme Film&Video Exhibition, Competition (Korea / Silver Prize)
Korean Youth Film Festival, Competition (Korea / Encouragement Award)
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Happy Families Program (UK)
Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, Competition (USA)
Short Cuts Cologne, Competition (Germany)
Regensburg Short Film Week, Competition (Germany)
International Panorama of Independent Film and Video, Competition (Greece)
International Art Film Festival, Competition (Slovak Republic)
Alter-Native International Short Film Festival, Competition (Romania)
Sopot Film Festival, Competition (Poland)
Motovun Film Festival, Competition (Croatia)
Tirana International Film Festival, Competition (Albania)
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Competition (Kosovo)
Tehran International Short Film Festival, Spiritual Competition (Iran)
Gwang-ju International Film Festival, Competition (Korea)
Busan Asian Short Film Festival, Competition (Korea)
Jeju Film Festival, Competition (Korea)
Korean Religious Short Film Festival, Competition (Korea)
Persons with Disabilities Film Festival (Korea)
JIM School Film Festival (Korea)