Mar Elepano

Production Supervisor,   elepano@usc.edu
Mar's gallery

Mar Elepano has been teaching at the MFA Animation program of the Division of Animation & Digital Arts of the School of Cinema-Television of USC since 1993. He also serves as the Production Supervisor of the division. He has been involved with Visual Communications Inc., a Los Angeles based Asian American community media arts group, since 1986 doing media workshops. From 1988-94 he was artist-in-residence at different Los Angeles high schools creating media pieces with young people. He did similar workshops at the California Institution for Men in Chino, CA from 1992 to 1994. He is currently involved with the Magnolia elementary school conducting an animation workshop for second through fifth grade students and has been teaching them every year since 1996.

Mar Elepano was awarded the Tatsukawa Memorial Fund Award in 2003 for his commitment to community service and the advancement of the Asian Pacific American Media Arts.

   
  

Isabelle Gelot

Program Coordinator,  animation@cinema.usc.edu

After graduating from the National School of Chemistry in Paris, Isabelle worked as a chemist for 2 years in the perfume industry. She then came to the US and went to Otis Parsons in Los Angeles where she received a certificate in Photography and worked for a Hollywood studio for 7 years. Isabelle went back to school and received a BS in Business Administration from the University of Redlands. She worked as a contract analyst for a Clinical/Research Laboratory for 4 years. Isabelle Gelot applied for the position of coordinator of the animation department at USC in May of 2003 and was hired in September.

   
  

Eric Furie

Network and Systems Administrator,  furie@usc.edu

Eric has been a part of the USC DADA staff since 1996, working as a systems and network administrator for the Program. After receiving his B.S.E. in computer science from Princeton University in 1995, Eric enrolled in the USC School of Cinema-Television's Graduate Film Production Program. He is currently finishing his short, student film, "When Sam Woke Up", a live-action comedy incorporating computer animation and visual effects.
  
  
  
  
  

Greg Kwok

Systems Administrator,  gkwok@anim.usc.edu

Greg has been part of the USC Dada staff since 2003.