Round I Projects
PROJECT
Community-Scored Cinema
PROJECT FOCUS AREA:
Social justice and community engagement
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CONTRIBUTOR(S):
Omar Lopex
Omar Lopex’s Community-Scored Cinema campaign objective is to provide a series of in-depth afterschool workshops for students with limited access to arts enrichment (ages K-12, without economic privilege) focusing on DIY instrument making and cinematic music scoring, leading up to a public performance where participants will live-score cartoons. By concluding the campaign with a chance for participating students to showcase their talents within these newly discovered concepts (in the form of public performance), their efforts and experiences are validated and provide a platform for artistic equity. For the campaign, Lopex is collaborating with Teresa Diaz de Cossio.
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Omar Lopex
Omar Lopex is a writer, director, artist, and academic whose work has screened at Big Muddy, San Diego Underground, Harkat 16mm Film festivals, Mingei International Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla Athenaeum, and the Hyperreal Vegas Residency. He's a grant recipient from American Artists, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Avery-Tsui Foundation, and the William Male Foundation. Lopex shoots exclusively on celluloid film and won the Binational Filmmaker Award for his debut feature Ana, Who They Pulled Out of the River from Film Consortium San Diego 2018. In 2022, in collaboration with FotoKem and Kodak Film, Lopex established the inaugural Standard Fantastic Transborder Film Fellowship, providing materials, equipment, and mentorship for two teams of young filmmakers to produce narrative films within the US/Mexico Transborder region. Lopex serves on the Advisory Council for the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts at the University of California San Diego.