Luigi Allemano, MAA
Associate Professor, Film Animation Undergraduate Program, Cinema
Biography Research activities Teaching activities Filmography Participation activities Accolades Film festivals
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| Email: | luigi.allemano@concordia.ca |
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Luigi Allemano is a Montreal-based animation filmmaker, composer and sound designer. Allemano's animation, music and sound design appear in more than fifty productions of the National Film Board of Canada, four of which have received Academy Award nominations. Since 2009, Allemano has held full-time faculty appointments at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema where he lectures on animation filmmaking, analog and digital animation techniques and sound for animation. Allemano's research interests include philosophy of improvisation in visual art and music, methodologies of pre-cinematic animation and contemporary approaches to visual music composition.
Education
MAA (Media Arts), Governor General's Gold Medal, Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2013)
BFA (Film Animation), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1997)
Diploma (Music Performance), MacEwan University (1990)
Areas of expertise
film animation, music composition, sound for film
Research activities
Teaching activities
Undergraduate Courses
2016-17
FMAN340 Sound for Animated Film
FMAN402 Animation III
2015-16
FMAN340 Sound for Animated Film
Graduate Courses
2015-16
FMPR610 Film Production I
Graduate Students Thesis Supervisor
2016-17
MFA Film Production candidate Marie-Josee Archambault
MFA Film Production candidate Stanila Syarova
MFA Studio Arts Printmaking candidate Etienne Rochon
MFA Film Production candidate Shaghayegh Yassemi
2015-16
MFA Film Production recipient Alisi Telengut
Filmography
Filmography
Participation activities
Workshops
16mm Animated Sound Workshops. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sterling Scotland. June, 2014.
Accolades
Awards and Nominations
2015 Canadian Screen Awards: Nomination - Best Animated Short
2014 Dérapage Festival: Award - Best Animation
2013 Governor General's Gold Medal, Highest Academic Standing in Graduate Studies, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Film festivals
Screenings
Improvisation no. 1: Cumulative Loops
Melbourne International Animation Festival 2015 – Melbourne, Australia
Cardiff Animation Nights 2014 – Cardiff, UK
Concierto de Música Visual en Noviembre electrónico 2014 - CEIArtE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2014 - Ottawa, Canada
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - Edinburgh, Scotland UK
Dérapage 14 Festival 2014 - Montréal, Canada *WINNER - BEST ANIMATION
Les Sommets du Cinéma d'Animation 2013 - Montréal, Canada
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2013 - Chicago, Brooklyn, USA,- Stockholm, Sweden - Mali Losinj, Croatia
Understanding Visual Music (UVM) Symposium and Concert 2013 - Buenos Aires, Argentina