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Student News
Graduate film student Dawn Poomee was on location this winter shooting a documentary in Phuket, Thailand, with the "Sea Gypsies" whose homes and livelihood as fishermen were destroyed by the tsunami. She is pictured here with a Sea Gypsy child. Dawn is also shooting her graduate thesis film titled "A Simple Dinner" with a cast of non-actors recruited in the area. Also working on the projects in Phuket is graduate film student Jason Guzzardo, director of photography on both projects. *** A team of senior students has been entered in the Kodak 35mm Film Project. This is the second year of this initiative that targets between six and eight leading film schools. Each team is provided with free 35mm raw stock (8,000 feet) and all lab processing so they can produce a short film under optimum conditions without budgetary restraints, according to Professor Jack Ofield.
*** Each season outstanding short films by SDSU television and film students are showcased on "The Short List," which is produced in The Production Center for Documentary
and Drama in association with Cox Channel 4 and Eastman Kodak. Awarded the Emmy four times, "The Short List" is the only weekly series of its Following are the diverse ***
School of Communication graduate student Chris Ochs is applying his experience in promotions for radio stations to his new role promoting the Pisces Project, an SDSU-based program involving elementary school teachers in San Diego County and other areas who teach inquiry-based science lessons to their students. Activities include sending upper level undergraduate and graduate students in science to partner with teachers in the classroom and research teams on the causes and effects of global warming. Chris’ job is to help identify potential private donors and develop promotional materials and strategies to provide ongoing public funding for this endeavor. His involvement is the first in what School of Communication Director Bill Eadie hopes will be an ongoing relationship with programs in the College of Sciences at SDSU.
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