Tuesday, November 10, 2009

EDUARDO J. PIANO


Email : ej_piano888@yahoo.com.ph
prof.edupiano@gmail.com


EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film & Television Direction (terminal degree), Vserossiski Gasudarstvenni Institut Kinematografi (VGIK)/Russian Federation State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow, Russia, 2003

AB Film & Television Direction, Vsesovyetski Gasudarstvenni Institut Kinematografi (VGIK)/All-Soviet State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, 1987 – 1992

Certificate Course in Russian Language (Preparatory Course), Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1986 – 1987

BS Journalism, Lyceum of the Philippines, Manila, 1977 – 1981

18 units completed, PhD in Filipino (Malikhaing Pagsulat), College of Arts & Letters, UP Diliman, November 2004 – March 2007


WORK EXPERIENCE

Managing Editor, Mango Creative Services, Words and Numbers, Inc. / Absolute Service, Inc, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, October 1, 2009 - present

Consultant, Russian Task Force, Mayor’s Office, Olongapo City, June 2009 - present

Professorial Lecturer 1, UP Film Institute, College of Mass Communication, UP Diliman, June 2007 – present

Teaching the following undergraduate courses: Introduction to Film, Film Theories, Film Genres, Philippine Cinema, National Cinema (Russian Cinema), Research in Film, Film Thesis, Film Directing, Scriptwriting, Acting, Documentary Film, Experimental Film. Graduate courses: The Filipino Film Industry, Advanced Research in Film, Advanced Scriptwriting.

Creative Director, Images and Letters Creative Media Services, Subic Bay Free Port, Olongapo City, June 2008 – June 2009

Composition and Publication Head, Avalon School for International Studies (ASIS), Korean Academy in Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City, December 2008 – May 2009

Assistant Professor 6, UP Film Institute, College of Mass Communication (CMC), UP Diliman, July 2005 – May 31, 2007

European Studies Department Coordinator, UP Center for International Studies (CIS), UP Diliman, July 2006 – Oct. 2007

Subject taught (team teaching): Global Studies (European Studies)

Assistant Professor 3, UP Film Institute, CMC, UP Diliman, June 2004 – June 2005

UPFI Faculty Coordinator for Academics & Research, November 2004 – May 2005

UP Center for International Studies (CIS) Affiliate Faculty, UP Diliman, 2002 – 2006

Instructor 6, UPFI, July 2001 – May 2004

Instructor 4, UP CMC Film & Audiovisual Communication (FAVC) Department, November 1998 – May 2001

Professorial Lecturer 1, UP CMC FAVC, June 1997 – October 1998

Senior Lecturer, UP CMC FAVC, June 1995 – May 1997

TV Director, Masawa Broadcasting, ETV 39, CU@E! (Wednesday and Saturday episodes), 1999 – 2001

Film Lecturer: St. Scholastica’s College, Mass Comm, Manila 1997 – 1998
University of the East, Communication Arts, Manila, 1994 – 1996
Aura College, Mass Communication, Olongapo City, 1994 – 1996

Creative Director, Subic Bay Multi-Media Services, Olongapo City, 1993 – 1997

Staff Assistant, Experimental Cinema of the Philippines’ Film Archives, 1983 – 1985

Managing Editor, The Olongapo-Zambales Guardian, Olongapo City, 1981 – 1983


LANGUAGES

Filipino, English, Russian


GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS/TRAININGS

Educational Publishing Training, Words and Numbers, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 5 – 16, 2009

UP Diamond Jubilee Faculty Grant Award, Olongapo: The Angst and the Ecstacy (Swinging to the American Beat Circa 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s), 01 July 2004 –31 March 2006

PhD Grant, MFA in Film and TV Direction (terminal degree), Moscow, Russia, 2003 - 2004

Artist-In-Residence, Casa San Miguel, Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales, 1995


PUBLISHED WORKS

Ang Alamat ni Sumakwel at ang Pagsilang ng Barangay, a novel-illustration in collaboration with Jun “Mr. Shooli” Urbano, Urbano Publishing, 2009

Ti Banglo Ni Maria, short narrative screenplay, Rimat International Magazine, volume 2, number 10, October 2004

Interview: Eddie Romero, Pelikula: Journal on Philippine Cinema, pages 43 – 51, March 2000

Romancing Pornography, Diliman Review, volume 48, number 1, pp. 17 – 21, 2000

The Future of Acting, Agenda Magazine, pp. 34 – 35, August 2000

Mga Unang Bunga ng UP CMC at Bicol University Film & Video Production Workshop, Pelikula: Journal on Philippine Cinema, 1999


COMPLETED UNPUBLISHED WORKS

Hapon, full-length screenplay commissioned by Jun “Mr. Shooli” Urbano, 2008

Mga Kurot at Kirot ng mga Alaala sa Pagsusulat ng Memwar, memoir writing, 2007

Mga Ngiwi Sa Aking Mga Ngiti, a dramatic non-fiction, 2007

Akting A La Vilma: Paghahabi ng Estetika ng Pagganap sa Ilan Piling Pelikula ni Vilma Santos, papel na iprinisenta sa CMC Kolukyum, 05 July 2006

Mga Eksena Ng Totoong Buhay, Essay/Memoirs, January 2006

Olongapo: Paglalagom sa Karanasan ng Isang Siyudad noong Dekada 60, 70, at 80, isang gawang reserts, 2004 - 2005

Ang Sining ng Pagganap, a manual on acting commissioned by the Actor’s Workshop Foundation, Quezon City, 2003

Images of Olongapo as Sin City in Philippine Cinema, a paper written for Sangandaan 2003, an international conference on Philippine culture.

Dada at Gogo (Ang Paghihintay kay Bok), a short narrative screenplay based on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, 2002

V Story, a full-length screenplay, 2001

Tigang, a short-narrative screenplay based on Manuel Arguilla’s Midsummer, 2000

Ang Seresahan, a translation from Russian/English to Filipino of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, 1996


PAPERS PRESENTED

Paper Reader/Speaker, Akting A La Vilma: Paghahabi ng Estetika ng Pagganap sa Ilang Piling Pelikula ni Vilma Santos, The CMC Faculty Colloquium, CMC Auditorium, UP Diliman, 05 July 2006

Paper Reader/Speaker, Russian and Eastern European Cinema, European Film Symposium, Cine Europa Film Festival, Shangrila Mall, October 2005

Paper Reader/Speaker, European Cinema, European Film Symposium, Cine Europa Film Festival, San Carlos University, Cebu City, November 2005

Paper Reader/Speaker, Wikang Filipino sa Pelikulang Pilipino, in celebration of Linggo ng Wika, AMA Computer College, Fairview Campus, 17 August 2004

Paper Reader, Freeze Frame: New Issues in Philippine Cinema, UP Visayas Cebu College, December 2003

Paper Reader/Rapporteur, Sangandaan 2003, PSSC, Diliman, Quezon City, July 2003


PARTICIPATION IN SEMINAR/WORKSHOPS
SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, & FESTIVALS

Adviser, Sister Stella L @ 25: Tuloy ang Pakikibaka, Forum, Exhibit, and Film Screening, Film 280 (The Filipino Movie Industry) class special project, Cine Adarna, UPFI, March 2009

Resource Person, Ang Pinaka: Ten Best Films of Vilma Santos, QTV Channel 11, 2008

Member of the Board of Judges, Catholic Mass Media Awards, Catholic Bishop Conference of The Philippines (CBCP), 2008

Facilitator, Alternatives to Imprisonment Training Workshop: Towards Non-Custodial Measures in Our Criminal Justice System, CBCP – Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care, San Jose Seminary, Ateneo De Manila University, 11 September 2008.

Moderator, Director’s Cut: Jeffrey Jeturin’s Tuhog and Jose Javier Reyes’ Toro/Live Show, Film Forum and Screening, UP Film Institute, Cine Adarna, 07 March 2008.

Official Interpreter to Russian-speaking Candidates, Miss Earth International, held annually at different parts of the country, 2004 - present

Interpreter (Russian to Filipino) & Assistant to Professor Andrei Andreev, 31st UNESCO – ITI (International Theater Institute) World Congress, World Festival of Drama Schools, Manila Hotel, St. Paul’s College Quezon City, and Lyceo de Cagayan de Oro University, May 16 – 30, 2006

Translator (Russian to Filipino) for a Russian guest speaker, Forum on the Philippines’ War on Terrorism sponsored by UP Center for International Studies (CIS), ISMED, 2004

Convenor, Has the Media Been Fair in its Election Coverage?, forum sponsored by CURE-Media, CMC Auditorium, 2004

Rapporteur, Asian Film Forum, EDSA Shangrila Hotel, January 2003

Festival Adviser, Russian Film Week, UP CMC Auditorium, October 1-5, 2001

Participant, Acting (Erick Morris “Being”) Workshop, Actor’s Workshop Foundation with Leo Martinez as instructor, Wednesday and Friday, 30 August – 27 October 2000

Participant, Kodak Masters’ Seminar in Cinematography with Gregory Hudson, ACCEED Conference Center, 28 June 2000

Program Coordinator, Chinese Cinema: Heritage, Ideology, and Globalization, China Film Week, 1 October 1999

Participant, Acting Techniques Workshop with Pico Claude Berkowitch, CCP Multi Purpose Hall, 19-23 May 1997

Facilitator, Scriptwriting Workshop with Pascal Ray, UP CMC FAVC, May 1996

Session Documentation Staff, Scriptwriting Workshop with Rolando Tinio, Experimental Cinema of the Philippines, 1984

FILMOGRAPHY

Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Ti Banglo Ni Maria, 16mm short narrative film based on Manuel Arguilla’s short story How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife, 2003

Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Abo, a 20-minute Film Diploma, 35mm, color, 3rd place, CCP Short Film & Video Competition, 1992

Assistant Director (internship), The Promised Land, full-length Russian film directed by Eldar Ryzhanov, MosFilm Studio, Moscow, Russia, 1989

Director, Pulse of the Time, a 5-minute film reportage, 35mm, color, VGIK, Moscow, Russia, 1989

Director, Spiritism, a 5-minute film etude, 35mm, B&W, VGIK, Moscow, Russia, 1989


VIDEOGRAPHY & TELEVISION WORKS

Director, Subic Bay Forum, Subic Bay Freeport Cable Channel, June 2009

Director, Liberal Party through History: A Commitment to Principled Governance, a video documentary on the 60th Anniversary of Liberal Party in the Philippines, March 2006

Director, Nagkaisa…Nanindigan…Nagtagumpay!, a video documentary on Jalajala, Rizal, 2004

Director, Seasons of the Heart, video-profile of former Olongapo City Mayor Amelia Gordon, September 1995

Director, Solid Waste Management Program, video documentary project, Olongapo City Government, October 1994

Director, Kate Cares, video-profile of Congresswoman Katherine Gordon, May 1994

Floor Director, Isang Landas, Isang Bansa, tele-movie, Channel 9, February 1994

Director, Fight On… The Leader and the Dream, video documentary on the life of Richard J. Gordon, August 1993

Director, Himig at Diwa, a musical-historical TV special, Channel 4, 1989


EXTENSION WORKS

Volunteer, CBCP's Coalition against Death Penalty and Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care advocating Restorative Justice and Alternatives to Imprisonment, August 2008 – present.

Organizer of Cine Subic, Subic Bay Freeport Film Festival, a project of Subic Bay Arts Council (SUBAC) of SBMA and UP Film Institute, every Friday and Saturday of November 2007

Acting Workshop Assistant to Professor Andrei Andreev, 31st UNESCO – ITI (International Theater Institute) World Congress, World Festival of Drama Schools, Manila Hotel, St. Paul’s College Quezon City, and Lyceo de Cagayan de Oro University, May 16 – 30, 2006

Facilitator and lecturer, Bicol University Summer Internship Program, BU Legazpi City, Albay & UP CMC, Diliman, Quezon City, 1999 - 2004

Member of the board of judges, Arubayan ni Oble Scene 2: Ti Panagbusel (Ang Pamumukadkad), UP Baguio Film and Video Festival, March 2005

Facilitator and lecturer, Video Production Workshop, Casa San Miguel, Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales, 1996


MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS

Founding member, Crusade for Unbiased Reportage in Media (CURE-Media), 2004

Adviser, UP CAST, UP CMC student organization, 2004 - 2006

Adviser, UP CINEMA, university-accredited student organization, 2004 - 2006

Adviser, UP Ulo Ng Apo (UP UNA), university-recognized student organizations which memberships are residents of Olongapo City studying in UP Diliman, 2005


MEMBERSHIP IN CMC COMMITTEES

Graduate Committee, 2006 – 2007

Committee for Tuition Fee Increase in the Graduate Program, 2006 – 2007

Candidacy Exam Committee for MA Media Studies (Film), 2006-2007

Admission Committee for MA Media Studies (Film) Program, chair, 2006

Committee on Instructions, 2004 – 2007

Common Courses Committee, 2004 – 2007

Library Committee, 2003 – 2007
UPFI DAPC member, 2004 - 2006

Faculty and Student Relations Committee, 2003 – 2004

Compre Exam Committee for MA in Broadcasting, 2004 – 2005


ADVISER TO THE FOLLOWING UPFI BEST THESES:

Tey Clamor’s Sakdal Laya, experimental-narrative, student film representative to American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS/Oscar); winner, CCP Short Film and Video Competition, experimental film category, April 2006

Sol Garcia’s Tagapagligtas, short narrative, KODAK regional representative, CINEMANILA Film Festival finalist, short film category, October 2006

Raya Martin’s Ysang Maicling Pelicula nang Indio Nacional, historical narrative-experimental, 2006 French Film Festival opening film, official selection to varioous film festivals abroad, 2005

Bryan Quesada’s Transcendental Progression, experimental, CCP Short Film and Video Competition winner, April 2005

Jasper Zarzuela’s Totoong Buhay, a short documentary film, the first documentary film shown in ABC 5’s Dokyu TV program, CCP Short Film and Video Competition winner, March 2004

Bong Guillermo’s Bulol Stokwa, clay animation, CCP Short Film and Video Competition winner, October 2003

Kat Loreno’s Pinish Product, animation, CCP Short Film and Video Competition winner, April 2003

Pao Pangan and Nani Naguit’s Crux Ansata, short narrative, KODAK’s Best UPFI Film thesis in 35mm, 2003

Arlene Cuevas’ Taguan, short narrative, CCP Short Film and Video Film Festival winner, 2003

Joy Puntawe’s Alon, short narrative, CCP Short Film and Video Film Festival winner, URIAN nominee, 2002

Christian Delos Santos’ Ewan, short narrative, KODAK’s Best Film (35MM) Thesis, URIAN nominee, 2000

Lyle Sacris’ Ang Lualhati’t Hinagpis ng Ikatlong Hintuturong..., experimental, CCP Short Film and Video Festival winner, 2000

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