Congratulations to Jackie Oster (MFA 99)! She won a Golden Reel Award for best Dialogue/ADR Editing (short form), for House, MD's episode, "Autopsy", beating out Lost, Alias and ER! She attended the awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton and had a fabulous evening!

I hear there's a pretty funny little DVD, The McPassion, which can be seen at www.TheMcPassion.com. The DVD was created by Film School alums Ben Hershleder and Rik Swartzwelder (both MFA 95). Its causing lots of debate/discussion . . .and laughs, and the site is getting thousands of visitors a day! Be sure to read the Press Release.

Wendy Mericle Koehler (MFA 99) and Jeffrey Koehler (MFA 98) - Sam Mericle Koehler ? born October 10, 2005 at 5:25 PM, weighing in at 7 lbs. and l0-.5 oz. He?s now almost 5 months old and cute as can be!

And another baby! Congratulations to Rose Hlaing and Joe Faissil ? they had little Joe on February 17 at 6:10am--he weighed in at 6lbs 4oz! He?s a cute little guy! Rose taught at the Film School a few years ago.

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BFA Director Frank P. Tomasulo ("Dr. T") chaired a workshop on Faculty Governance and Academic Service at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Vancouver, Canada. He also delivered a paper called "Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Film Production: The FSU Film School Model." Dr. T serves as Advisory Editor to the organization's publication, CINEMA JOURNAL.

This week with the Tallahassee Film Society: ?The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - This Friday, March 10; "The Days of Being Wild" - Coming March 17/18 ; "The Duellists - Museum of FL History - Thursday, March 9th; This Week's Miracle Five Films - March 10-16; This Week's Challenger Learning Center IMAX Films. For more information go to tallahasseefilms.com.

FROM THE FSU MAILING LIST

FSU Screenings & Awards Update March 9, 2006

SIRAH (MFA 2005 - Cristine Spindler & Crew) has been invited to screen at the 5th Tribeca Film Festival which will be held in New York City, April 25th - May 7th, 2006. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Martin Scorsese with the mission to contribute to the revitalization of lower Manhattan in the wake of September 11. For more information go to www.tribecafilmfestival.org

THE RESURRECTIONIST (MFA 2005 - Susan Bell & Crew) has been invited to screen at the 22nd edition of the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, which will run from April 19 to 25, 2006 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The film was recommended through it's screening last October at Screamest L.A.

THE RESURRECTIONIST (MFA 2005 - Susan Bell & Crew), MEMORY COLLECTOR (MFA D-3 2004 - Soo Jin Hwang & Crew), and HOUSE OF LORDS (MFA D-2 2004 Rob Muraskin & Crew) have all been accepted to the Newport Beach Film Festival which runs April 20-30, 2006 in Newport Beach, California. For more information go to the website at www.newportbeachfilmfest.com

THE BOARDER (MFA D-3 2004 Susan Bell & Crew) has been accepted into the Danville International Children's Film Festival which runs May 19-21, 2006, in Danville, California. For further information go to www.dicff.org/

THE RESURRECTIONIST (MFA 2005 Susan Bell & Crew) will be screening March 12th in Hollywood when the Sunday Filmmakers Rendezvous celebrates Southern California's WOMEN FILMMAKERS. Come out and support up-and-coming directors, enjoy dinner and some great movies. Sunday Filmmakers Rendezvous - Southern California's first and only bi-monthly interschool screening-mixer with the best in student shorts is back on March 12, 2006, 6:30-10:30 pm at Cinespace on southwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard at Ivar - 6356 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Level, Hollywood, CA 90028.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS, AWARDS AND EVENTS:

THE PROBLEM WITH FIBER OPTICS (MFA 2005 - Greg Jardin & Crew) will be screened on Sunday, March 12th, at 4:30 PM, at the 2006 Washington DC Independent Film Festival. For more information go to http://www.dciff.org/Festival_home.cfm <http://www.dciff.org/Festival_home.cfm>

MEMORY COLLECTOR (MFA D-3 12/2004 - Soo Jin Hwang & Crew) and TONI & THE GREAT PADDLE CAPER have been accepted for screening by the Pacific Film Archive at Berkeley, CA in the Women of Color Festival in March 2-5, 2006 and the festival will close on Saturday, March 11th at the Yerba Buena Gardens theater in San Francisco through Cinematheque. MEMORY COLLECTOR will screen on Saturday, March 11 in San Francisco. TONI & THE GREAT PADDLE CAPER was invited through another festival's participation and that screening date will be forthcoming. For further information contact Linda Charmaraman, Women of Color Film Festival Director by email at lacharm at berkeley.edu

TONI AND THE GREAT PADDLE CAPER (MFA D2- 2004 Kyley T. Robinson & Crew) has been chosen to screen in the 8th Annual BAMKids Film Festival which will take place March 4-5, 2006 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and will feature some of the finest children's films and videos available internationally. The 2005 BAM International Children's Film Festival welcomed more than four thousand children who participated in voting for the Bammies, the Festival's top honors. For more info on this festival go to http://www.bam.org/education/BAMkidsfilmfestival.aspx <http://www.bam.org/education/BAMkidsfilmfestival.aspx>

FIELDS OF MUDAN (MFA 2004 - STEVO & Crew) has been invited to screen in the Boise Human rights Film Festival in Boise, Idaho. The festival is scheduled to take place March 11-12, 2006. For more information on this event contact Angela Hummel at 208-713-3055.

THE PROBLEM WITH FIBER OPTICS (MFA 2005 - Producer-Shannon Gregory/Director-Greg Jardin & Crew) and TYCHO'S NOVA (MFA 2005 - Producers -Tiffany Moore and Max Valverde-Soto/Director-Soo Jin Hwang) have both earned top awards in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Awards. THE PROBLEM WITH FIBER OPTICS has won First Place Comedy, and TYCHO'S NOVA has the won the Best Music Film Award. Only one award is given in the Music Category. The producers will be honored at the awards events in Los Angeles March 19 & 20, 2006. For more information go to www.emmys.org/foundation/collegetvawards.php

FIELDS OF MUDAN (MFA 2004 - STEVO & Crew) has been invited to screen in the Boston Underground Film Festival which runs March 22-26, 2006 in Massachusetts. The film is scheduled to screen on 35mm on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 PM. For further information go to: Bostonundergraound.org

THE PROBLEM WITH FIBER OPTICS (MFA 2005 - Greg Jardin & Crew) will be screening in the Florida Film Festival's Midnight program, and SIRAH (MFA 2005 - Cristine Spindler & Crew) and CHARM (BFA 2004 - Melissa Rossi & Crew) will be screening in the festival's Florida Sidebar program. This year's festival runs March 24-April 2, 2006. Check their web site at www.floridafilmfestival.com/index.html

FIELDS OF MUDAN (MFA 2004 - STEVO & Crew) has been invited to screen at the 4th San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival in Spain which runs March 24-31, 2006. For more information go to www.cineyderechoshumanos,com

MY GOLDEN CAGE (BFA Doc 2004/2005 Cristina Paez and Wilson Tang) and OF MY GOD (BFA Thesis 2005 Demetrius Wren and Wilson Tang & Crew) will be screening at the Garden State Film Festival on March 30 - April 2,2006, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Also THE SEASON, a semi-professional documentary about hurricane relief by grassroots organizations will screen there. Demetrius Wren and Jessica Miller and Wilson Tang worked on this documentary together. The web site for this festival is at www.gsff.org

SIRAH (MFA 2005 - Cristine Spindler & Crew) has been accepted for screening at the 6th Annual ReelWorld Film Festival (RWFF) in downtown Toronto, Canada, April 19-23, 2006. For further information check the web site at www.reelworld.ca or email to kirk at reelworld.ca

SIRAH (MFA 2005 - Cristine Spindler & Crew) has been invited to participate in the 9th annual Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival For Children, April 21 to 30, 2006, in Toronto, Canada. For more information go to www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/sprockets

SIRAH (MFA 2005 Cristine Spindler & Crew) and CAKE (MFA D-3 Jennifer Arzt & Crew) have been accepted to the San Francisco International Film Festival - Golden Gate Awards the last week in April. Check out the web site at http://www.sfiff.org <http://www.sfiff.org>

THE SKY IS FALLING (MFA Thesis 2004-Adam J. Kreps & Crew) has been accepted to the Tribeca Underground Film Festival., which runs from May 2-7, 2006 in New York, NY. For learn more go to www.befilm.net or email laurence at atasteofart.com