Mar Elepaño

Mar Elepaño
Born
Mariano Elepano

1954[1]
Philippines
Died2025[2]
EducationUSC School of Cinematic Arts

Mariano "Mar" Elepaño (1954–2025) was a Filipino American independent filmmaker, teacher, and the production supervisor of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts.[3]

Elepaño was born and raised in the Philippines. He came to the United States to study film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1975.[3] He joined the faculty at USC in 1993.[3]

Some of his short works of experimental animation (Lion Dance, Pendito, Winter, Burp, and Take 5)[4] were screened at the Asian American International Film Festival, New York, New York July 27, 1989 and at Filmex: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Short Film) March 14–30, 1979.[5][6] In addition, Winter was screened at the Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists Festival in 2006.[7] Rolando B. Tolentino in Animation in Asia and the Pacific described Elepano as "the prime [Filipino] mover of computer animation" in the United States (p. 177).[8]

Elepaño was a Fulbright Scholar in 2001. In 2007, he received a "California Council for the Humanities Grant Award to the Khmer Girls in Action (KGA)" which helped "teenage Cambodian American girls in the Long Beach [...] develop digital narratives about their identity and their connection or disconnection to their parents' generation."[9][10]

Elepano died in 2025.[2]

Awards

Publications

  • Labtalk in Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts, edited by Russell Leong. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1992.[13]

References

  • John A. Lent, ed. Animation in Asia and the Pacific, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001.
  • Tolento, Rolando B. "Identity and Difference in Filipino/A American Media Arts." In Screening Asian Americans edited by Peter X. Feng. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Notes

  1. 1 2 What Matters to Me & Why: Mariano Elepaño
  2. 1 2 Remembering Mar Elepano (1954-2025)
  3. 1 2 3 SCA Alumni Stories: Mar Elepano
  4. ↑ Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5 - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - The New York Times
  5. ↑ Lion Dance/Pendito/Winter/Burp/Take 5, Mar Elepano - Variety Profiles
  6. ↑ "LION DANCE/PENDITO/WINTER/BURP/TAKE 5">". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  7. ↑ Abstraction and Visual Music — iota[link removed]
  8. ↑ Tolentino, Rolando B. (2001). "Animating the Nation: Animation and Development in the Philippines". In John A. Lent (ed.). Animation in Asia and the Pacific. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253340357. - See page at the Internet Archive
  9. 1 2 USC Cinema - About » Announcements » Major Grant Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ cambodianfilm Archived 2008-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
  11. 1 2 USC John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts -Faculty Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ Simply Mar-velous
  13. ↑ Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts
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